The Race is only two days of the seven-day festival. Here are more reasons to plan to be in Dominica March 21 to March 27.

On January 21, a motor cruiser anchored off Virgin Gorda’s Spanish Town had an expensive T-Foiling Board stolen from the flybridge, where is was secured but not locked, while the boat’s crew were ...

The Discover Boating Miami International Boat Show opens on February 11 and promises to be a city-wide boating extravaganza. There are plenty of reasons to jet to Miami in February not the least being ...

Solo sailor Joe Harris set off from Newport, Rhode Island in November 2015 in an attempt to break the non stop solo around the world record. After two ...

The new Elan Impression 45 is a thoroughly modern family cruising boat that can be tailored to each owner’s needs (published Dec/Jan 2016-17) The afternoon after […] Blue Water Sailing is now in its ...

Thanks to everyone who reokied to last week’s survey on barometers. Of those who answered, 92% do have a barometer on board ...

When compared to other tropical cruising paradises, French Polynesia is the least likely to suffer hurricanes or cyclones (published March 2018) After the devastating 2017 hurricane season in the ...

The new Oceanis 30.1 is the little sister to all of the boats in the Oceanis line but in particular it is most closely related to the 46.1 and 40.1. All three bear a strong next-generation family ...

Provisioning a cruising sailboat can seem like a daunting task. Trying to predict where you will be able to restock after leaving a major port can be stressful. Having to plan what you and the crew ...

BWS takes a look back at some of the famous, notable and most influential small boat cruies of all time…and many are Americans (published July 2014) You could say that the modern age of shorthanded ...

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