IF YOU’RE PLANNING to sail to a foreign country, you need a passport. Your boat needs one, too, and the best kind of passport for American...

  SEVERAL YEARS BACK, when we were cruising up north in beautiful British Columbia, we ran into some people with very strong opinions about ...

ONE OF THOSE professional golfers who makes millions of dollars every year was remarking on television the other day that the more he prac...

’TIS THE EQUINOX, the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness around here. I’m all in favor of the fruitful mellowness, but I’m not so kee...

ONE THING I LEARNED about cruising under sail is that women are especially sensitive about doors on toilets. When I decided to take a six-...

FOR NEARLY TWO YEARS I’ve been meaning to pass on to you a fascinating article that appeared in The Onion .   It will be meaningful to any...

JUDGING BY THE NUMBER of blogs they’re generating, there must be thousands of people out there cruising in small sailboats, just wandering...