I RECENTLY STUMBLED ACROSS some work by the late Professor Angus Maddison of the University of Groningen, in The Netherlands. Maddison, a B...

PEOPLE LOOKING FOR BOATS TO BUY find lots of good advice in the yachting magazines, such as where to look for rot and how to tell if the rig...

BRITISH AUTHOR AND SAILOR Dylan Winter, producer of the popular video series Keep Turning Left , says patience is the sailor’s best friend....

PRESIDENT OBAMA says there can be no doubt that global warming is taking place right now, under our very noses. I, for one, am not surprised...

IN A MONTH OR TWO, scores of cruising boats will be heading for the beautiful San Juan Islands, in northwest Washington state, about 80 mil...

THERE ARE MANY SPORTS whose popularity is due, at least in part, to the fear they generate. I’m thinking of sports such as mountaineering, ...

ONE OF THE THINGS you learn fairly quickly at sea is never to assume that an oncoming ship is going to miss you. At first sight, it might a...