Know your knots
One of our favorite online sailing resources is the website Animated Knots. Knowing your knots and being able to use them quickly when needed are essential sailing skills. These include the bowline, the figure 8, the...
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Know your PHRF rating?
What’s the PHRF rating of your boat? PHRF (Performance Handicap Racing Fleet) is the system that allows boats of different designs to compete against each other. Racers often complain that the system is not fair, especially...
Journey of Discovery of Emotions and Perspectives of Global Solo Challenge Skippers
Days pass quickly at the GSC, but for the skippers, each hour and day is filled with novelty and surprises: some pleasant, others more challenging to face. The ocean, relentless, delves deep into the souls of...
Kirsten Neuschäfer awarded World Sailing’s Sailor of the Year
South African Kirsten Neuschäfer was named female 2023 Rolex World Sailor of the Year after writing her name into the history books by becoming the first woman to finish first in the solo Golden Globe Race,...
Italian Andrea Mura to start Nov. 18 in Global Solo Challenge
Italian sailor Andrea Mura is driven by a special wind, a wind that carries the name and spirit of his homeland: Sardinia. This wind has not only inspired the name of his project and his boat,...
Feeling blue? The nautical origin of the phrase might make you smile
DEFINITION: Experiencing feelings of sadness or melancholy ORIGIN: If a captain or officer of a ship died while at sea, the crew would fly blue flags and paint a blue band along the ship’s hull. Over...
A spectacular start for the Imocas
As the 40 IMOCA teams in the Transat Jacques Vabre-Normandie Le Havre face their first night at sea, after one of the most spectacular race starts in recent memory, they will be thinking through the biggest...
Filing a float plan
An essential practice for ensuring your safety while sailing is filing a float plan. In the event of an emergency, a float plan can provide vital information to aid search and rescue efforts. The US Coast...
Rent an EPIRB from BoatUS
Need an EPIRB for a short time, and don’t have the budget to buy one? BoatUS has an EPIRB rental program that might be just what you need to provide an extra level of safety without...
The Tartan 365 wins Cruising World’s Boat of the Year
The Tartan 365 has been awarded the 2023 Boat of the Year Award (mid-size cruisers) by Cruising World Magazine. The Tartan 365 adds to a long list of past Tartan Boat of the Year winners. We would like...