Bar Hopping: The Most Dangerous Game?
September 7, 2021
Crossing a bar safely requires careful planning and good seamanship. A little local knowledge helps, too.
Crossing a bar safely requires careful planning and good seamanship. A little local knowledge helps, too.
Understand and follow these Rules of the Road for safe nighttime navigation.
The USCG issues a Marine Safety Alert on this potential issue after numerous reports of degraded radio communication
Promotional Video from Fundamentals of Seamanship: Navigational Rules on Rule 22 which defines visibility of Navigational Lighting
Plus, Chris Parker’s ‘Weather 101’ Is Now Accepting Students
Unregulated AIS fishing beacons are most likely illegal and pose a hazard to navigation
Understanding our responsibilities for operating in narrow channels with large ships
Are you captain material? Take our quick quiz on Navigational Rules to find out.
An important Seamanship article from our friends at Soundings Magazine regarding COLREGS Rule 5.
Seamanship columnist and Boaters University Instructor, Robert Reeder, talks about the importance of maintaining a proper lookout
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.
Bearings From The Editor’s Desk
Nordic Strength Meets Yamaha Power
Palm Beach’s Newest Space Ship
