A Case for Trailer Sailing
The friends arrived from Maryland, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania to Janes Island State Park in Crisfield, Maryland, on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake. The boats included…
The (Unwritten) Rules of Sailing: Newbie Sailing Lessons with Frankie Krutsch
I, Mary Martha Frances Krutsch, do solemnly swear that I know absolutely nothing about sailing. It’s a cruel irony, right? A twenty-five-something who has lived a majority of her…
Cruising Hobbies Underway
While I was working in corporate America, raising a family, and planning to sail away one day, I never found time for a hobby. I always felt that a creative…
Winning the Jackpot
Several years ago – around 1995, to be exact – I was in Annapolis, Maryland, and decided to take a boat ride from the harbor out to Thomas Point…
Sailing on a Budget
Have you ever dreamed of buying a sailboat and setting off for distant shores and tropical waters? My wife, Lisa, and I have been sailing for over thirty years around…
Staircase to Paradise
What do you say when you leave one group of islands that have registered top of the A-List, only to discover the next group far surpasses? Having departed the…
Yet Another Boat!
After four decades of having many different sailboats, one day I began to think of all of the vessels I’ve owned and realized that I had trouble remembering them…
Virtual Cruising: Young Cruisers’ Association
Have A Seat At Our Table… A magnificently beautiful awakening occurs in a soul when one feels they have been met with acceptance. Some seek it, some offer it,…
Stranded in ÃŽle-Ã -Vache, Haiti
When a winter norther blows through the Bahamas, the northeast trades reach gale force as they funnel through the Windward Passage between Cuba and Haiti. We were in Santiago de…
Cruising Puerto Rico’s Southern Coast
For the last eleven years, I have run crewed charters aboard Guiding Light, a Lagoon 410, in the Virgin Islands and several years in the Leeward and Windward Islands. In…