Worse-Case Planning
February 3, 2023
Sure, you’ve read plenty about how to anchor, but what happens if you become unanchored?
Sure, you’ve read plenty about how to anchor, but what happens if you become unanchored?
Anchors provide freedom, the ability to go and stay places far and wide, and the chance to explore places of remoteness and quiet. It is time to regain some of that freedom.
Nothing is worse than boats going crash in the middle of the night, learn to anchor respectfully.
Does anchoring make you nervous? Not sure about spending the night on the hook? Learn the ins and outs of anchoring with anchoring specialist, Chuck Hawley in this new course from Boaters University.
Steve Zimmerman goes over best practices for storing anchors while underway and broaches the controversial topic of anchor swivels.
Over the decades, my wife Terrie and I have anchored literally thousands of times in about every conceivable type of bottom. Early on in our
Recently I took a walk down a dock that had a number of trawler-yachts tied up alongside. I was struck by how lightweight the anchors
The Safe Anchoring Guide is available for free download at the Fortress website. In it, boaters will gain an understanding of the complete anchoring process.
Storm drogues and sea anchors can vastly improve your comfort level at sea. Often confused as the same piece of equipment, a speed-limiting storm drogue and a sea anchor serve two very different purposes.
For those of you heading to and from Florida, here’s an update as of today, March 31, 2016, with the new current and upcoming prohibitions.
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.
Why we chose to build our dream version of a Selene 60 from the keel up.
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.
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Nordic Strength Meets Yamaha Power
Palm Beach’s Newest Space Ship
