Choosing Your Offshore Escape Vessel
The dream of buying a boat and sailing to exotic islands is a powerful and exciting one and an important part of achieving that dream is selecting the…
Tag: offshore sailing
Start Your Cruising Adventure With John Neal
This month American Sailing is offering a free online class on how to start your sailing adventure. After all, you can’t keep fantasizing about sail…
Zero Sailing Knowledge is Unacceptable
Four hundred miles off the coast of Barbados, and more than 2,500 miles into their voyage Stan Dabrowny, 74, slipped and fell from the boat. His wif…
Captain Anne Alberg: Arctic Loon Slideshow
Being on the water is in Anne Alberg’s DNA. Her great-great-grandfather Anders Persson’s boat is displayed in the harbor in Boren, Sweden. Beginning with several…
In The Classroom: ASA 108/117 Offshore Passagemaking and Celestial Navigation
Currently, a group of students is preparing to embark on a voyage from Bermuda to the British Virgin Islands. On that voyage, students will earn…
Managing Weather
In this guest post, Captain Tony Wall of Biscayne Bay Sailing Academy recounts delivering a 46′ sloop–while managing the effects of a nearby hurricane. As…