LeeZe is visited by a fire-fighting airplane and Lee and Zehra face a challenging med mooring that could come back to bite them when the wind picks up.
Lee, Zehra and their boat LeeZe are put through the trials and runarounds of entering turkey, only to become illegals for a day.
Faced with a spike in marina charges, our Turkish blogger, Lee Licata, decides to install solar panels atop his beloved trawler.
September 17, 2013 Getting underway to Gulluck was no less a fiasco than the landing. We told the “powers that be” that we wanted to
Lee and Zeha visit with old friends along the coast only to realize how small the world actually is. Lee also witnesses an exchange between a French and Turkish captain involving police and black water.
In a lengthy update, cruiser-blogger Lee Licata battles his ailing generator, gets left adrift in his own tender and experiences a dockside foam party. All in a days work.
Smarter steering means frequent, but only short, glances at the chartplotter.
In an emergency, a properly maintained, easy-to-launch life raft can make all the difference.
Why we chose to build our dream version of a Selene 60 from the keel up.
Exploring the Utrechtse Vecht on the redesigned Elling E4.
Two decades after their first circumnavigation, Don and Anja Richards are crossing oceans again to help their son, Keith, kickstart his own cruising dream.
We caught up to the liveaboards at their winter roost in Southwest Alaska to chat about following your dreams and living a life less ordinary.
The gig is more workaday than champagne and caviar, and sometimes the harbor patrol saves our bacon.
How I learned to love the solitude and adventure of cruising with my canine companions.
A veteran sailor brings celestial navigation skills to a motoryacht’s transatlantic passage.
Bearings From The Editor’s Desk
