Without outboard power, the dinghy and Brian were blown across a four-mile-wide sound and ended up on a beach near the main town of Marsh Harbour. Hooker says he came ashore at about 4:15 am or ...

For those wanting to learn more about the Red Sea passage, the Red Sea Pilot by Elaine Morgan and Stephen Davies, published by Imray, is an excellent resource.

The 580 has the Balance trademark reversed bows and the low-slung cabin top that fits very sweetly on the hulls. The cockpit ...

Erika Lush, who hails from Jamestown, Rhode Island originally, is a professional sailor and has been an accomplished racer since she was in her teens. She has tens of thousands of sea miles under her ...

Since 1851, before the Civil War, American sailors have held or challenged for the America’s Cup, a sailboat regatta to ...

The Coast Guard rescued a 65-year-old man Saturday, March 19, who was aboard a sailboat 25 miles east of Hobucken, North Carolina. Watchstanders at Sector North Carolina received ...

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On Wednesday, Bahamian police officers arrested American Brian Hooker on charges relating to the disappearance of his wife following an alleged dinghy accident last weekend. Lynette and Brian Hooker, ...

We’ve been in dozens of cruiser gatherings –in cockpits, on beaches, in raft ups—and inevitably at some point the discussion –among men particularly—turns to the issue of on-board electrical ...

Jon Binney was headed to shore with a friend in a dinghy in St. Martin, after battening down his sailboat. A speedboat traveling at about 30 mph ran ...

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I’ve had the good fortune to have sailed across the South Pacific from Panama to New Zealand and Australia twice and know that this huge ocean, with a wide trade wind belt, is as complex a route as ...