The ill-fated Concordia  THE OFFICER OF THE WATCH simply didn’t know enough to avoid a capsize. That’s the conclusion of an invest...

SOMETIMES PEOPLE NEW TO SAILING ask me: “How can I tell if the skipper I sail with knows his stuff? Is it safe to be with him? Will he teac...

IT’S NOT SOMETHING you hear much about, but a surprising number of sailors undertaking long voyages suffer from hallucinations caused by fat...

LAURA DEKKER is about to make one of the most important decisions of her young life. She is the sturdy little Dutch girl who is aiming to...

A LETTER cunningly scratched on toilet paper with a burned stick says: O wise and wonderful one, O great font of wisdom and truth, O shini...

ONE OF MY RECENT COLUMNS has made a reader very unhappy. “I’m about to retire from a very stressful career,” writes someone who signs himse...

Skidbladnir I’VE ALWAYS FELT A GREAT AWE for the Viking longship. It undertook some very ambitious trading voyages between Scandin...