Cruising World

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Cruising WorldBuilt for Blue Water: St. Francis 460 Boat Review The 460’s vinylester resin-infused foam-core hull is stiffer and lighter than early models, and impervious to delamination. Courtesy St.

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Cruising WorldWhen Cell Service Disappears These Skills Keep You Safe Clear communication at sea has always mattered. SockaGPhoto/stock.adobe.com We are living in an age when communication is easy and all around us: cell phones, the Internet, Starlink .

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Cruising WorldA Message from 50 Years Ago Opens Three Guest Books Shari Essex (right) and Gary Donnellan (middle), who took Sahula ’s lines in the Bass Strait’s wild Lady Barron anchorage, are among the many faces behind the signatures. Lin Pardey “Wow!

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Cruising WorldHow to Prevent Seasickness on a Charter Vacation Whatever remedy you choose—scopolamine patch, Bonine, acupressure band or candied ginger—start before you leave the dock.

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Cruising WorldA Seacock Failure at the Dock and What It Taught Me The fractured seacock at center. Roger Hughes It was during a periodic evening visit to my schooner, Britannia , floating quietly in her cozy dock in New Bern, North Carolina, that I heard the bilge…

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Cruising WorldLeopard 52 Review: The Most Versatile Cat in Its Class At anchor, the hybrid-powered 52 can lean on its quartet of 400-watt rooftop solar panels and 27-kWh lithium battery bank, while the flybridge lounge becomes the best seat in the house.

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Cruising WorldWhat 40-Knot Squalls Taught the Boat of the Year Judges The Leopard 52 heads into the elements. Walter Cooper Day one of Boat of the Year 2026 sea trials was a 40-knot reminder that the Chesapeake Bay answers to nobody.

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Cruising WorldThe Charter Crew Rules That Save Friendships Every Time Before you invite friends or family to join you on your next charter, consider these tips to avoid a mutinous vacation. Robert/stock.adobe.com You want to do a bareboat charter in an exotic locale.

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Cruising WorldWhy AIS, Radar and GPS All Have Dangerous Blind Spots On a Morse Alpha expedition, a sailor cross-references a paper chart with radar targets, learning to interpret raw data rather than relying solely on electronics.

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Cruising WorldHow a Cruising Sailor Brings Books to Remote Schools Worldwide The author reads to students at Vulaga Primary School in Muanaicake, Fiji, one of dozens of school visits across five years of cruising.

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A dock at six in the morning tells you more than a launch party at eight in the evening.

I crewed for ten years and delivered other people's yachts across the Mediterranean before I wrote a word about them. I have been seasick in front of guests I was meant to impress. I have watched a yard in Viareggio spend nine months on a hull nobody will ever see. Nami (波) means wave, and this is a magazine about boats — I intend to go on calling them boats.

So that is what gets read here: around ninety sources out of Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Americas and Japan, in Italian, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese and English. Yards, crews, naval architects, the small classics moored beside the hundred-metre houses. Prices appear when the price is genuinely the story, which is rarer than the brochures imply.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out to the people who reported it. Nothing is reprinted whole. The photographs stay with whoever took them. A Dutch yard writes in Dutch and it stays in Dutch here. The link goes straight to them.

— Olivia Stay, Antibes and Tokyo Bay