In last week’s Cruising Compass, we ran a video made by Skip Novak on his techniques for heaving to. ... Florida builder Island Packet Yachts, one of only a few sailboat builders in North America, ...

The following account was written by veteran cruiser Sheldon Stuchell based on reports from the two crew aboard the cruising boat Escape and official Coast Guard reports. While the incident and the ...

For a change of pace, spend a winter cruising from Florida to the Western Caribbean and back. Here’s how (published May 2018) For U.S. east coast cruisers looking to extend their cruising experience ...

It is not the size of your boat that matters, it is the size of your dreams (published June 2018) Today’s cruising fleet is made up of boats that are much larger than they were only just a decade ago.

The Danish designed and built trimaran combines comfortable cruising accommodations with exciting sailing performance (published fall 2017) In early June, we had the opportunity to cruise on a ...

The new Dufour 41 that was introduced at the Cannes boat show last September has been voted European Family Cruiser of the Year for 2024 by the panel of yachting journalists who tested a wide variety ...

Outbound 46 Revisited Going strong after 15 years, this venerable passagemaker still might be the perfect couples blue water cruiser by Andrew Cross After being dropped […] ...

Funny how the beginning and end of a voyage can parallel each other, even when they’re three years and thousands of miles apart (published April 2016) In 2011, when I set off from the U.S. East Coast ...

The idea behind building The World’s Best Ocean-Cruising Trimarans came from the team that has built more than 1,500 production trimarans globally. The world-acclaimed Morrelli & Melvin was then ...

With America’s largest in-the-water sailboat show starting today, we are pleased to offer a quick look at 10 of the new cruising boats that will debut there. The show, which takes over the Annapolis ...

Southerly Yachts has long been a true design and build innovator in the shoal-draft, drop-keel category of blue water cruisers. Yet, the company has ben through a few rocky patches and differetnj ...

From Antigua south to Grenada, the southern islands of the Lesser Antilles offer near-perfect cruising without the crowds (published June/July 2018) The islands of the Eastern Caribbean form a ...