Cruising World

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Cruising WorldRacing Bones, Sailor’s Soul: Ipsum 45 Trimaran The Ipsum 45 trimaran combines lightweight construction, wave-piercing lines and a design philosophy that lets the boat evolve with its owner.

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Cruising WorldThe Cruisers Mapping Coral Reefs for Science Cruisers visit Puluwat quite regularly. Courtesy Birgit Hackl Coral reef ecosystems are facing unprecedented peril all around the globe.

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Cruising WorldReturning to the Helm with Parents Aboard and a Toddler on the Bow Historic Hope Town with its candy-striped lighthouse, the wild beaches of Lynyard Cay, the legendary watering holes at Tahiti Beach—each stop earns its place on the itinerary.

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Cruising WorldWhat the Bermuda High Teaches Every Offshore Sailor At the Cooper Island Nature Reserve, Lisa and Danny Greene showed me, once again, there’s no place like home.

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Cruising WorldBoat Shows Are Dangerous for Sailing Journalists After years of attending boat shows as a working journalist, I can confirm that professional detachment is not a skill the job develops.

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Cruising WorldBuilt for Blue Water: St. Francis 460 Boat Review The 460’s vinylester resin-infused foam-core hull is stiffer and lighter than early models, and impervious to delamination. Courtesy St.

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Cruising WorldWhen Cell Service Disappears These Skills Keep You Safe Clear communication at sea has always mattered. SockaGPhoto/stock.adobe.com We are living in an age when communication is easy and all around us: cell phones, the Internet, Starlink .

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Cruising WorldA Message from 50 Years Ago Opens Three Guest Books Shari Essex (right) and Gary Donnellan (middle), who took Sahula ’s lines in the Bass Strait’s wild Lady Barron anchorage, are among the many faces behind the signatures. Lin Pardey “Wow!

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Cruising WorldHow to Prevent Seasickness on a Charter Vacation Whatever remedy you choose—scopolamine patch, Bonine, acupressure band or candied ginger—start before you leave the dock.

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Cruising WorldA Seacock Failure at the Dock and What It Taught Me The fractured seacock at center. Roger Hughes It was during a periodic evening visit to my schooner, Britannia , floating quietly in her cozy dock in New Bern, North Carolina, that I heard the bilge…

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A dock at six in the morning tells you more than a launch party at eight in the evening.

I crewed for ten years and delivered other people's yachts across the Mediterranean before I wrote a word about them. I have been seasick in front of guests I was meant to impress. I have watched a yard in Viareggio spend nine months on a hull nobody will ever see. Nami (波) means wave, and this is a magazine about boats — I intend to go on calling them boats.

So that is what gets read here: around ninety sources out of Northern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Americas and Japan, in Italian, French, German, Dutch, Swedish, Japanese and English. Yards, crews, naval architects, the small classics moored beside the hundred-metre houses. Prices appear when the price is genuinely the story, which is rarer than the brochures imply.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out to the people who reported it. Nothing is reprinted whole. The photographs stay with whoever took them. A Dutch yard writes in Dutch and it stays in Dutch here. The link goes straight to them.

— Olivia Stay, Antibes and Tokyo Bay