On Tuesday of this week, the U.S. Pentagon announced that a U.S. submarine has sunk a Iranian destroyer in the Indian Ocean ...

With the war underway in the Middle East and the likely unfavorable conditions for a Red Sea transit this spring, the migrating cruising fleet in Asia has started to alter plans. Some, as we reported ...

Last week, I had two full days at the United States Sailboat show in Annapolis, MD and got around to see just about all of my […] Blue Water Sailing is now in its 22nd year of publication and reaches ...

Bethany Smith, 18, is thought to have died in the hospital from multiple injuries after the accident on board luxury 180 foot schooner Germania Nova, which was berthed ...

The waters of boat ownership and maintenance just got easier to navigate. Boatbroke.com is a recently launched one-stop online resource that provides boat owners with a comprehensive directory ...

BWS takes a look back at some of the famous, notable and most influential small boat cruies of all time…and many are Americans (published July 2014) You could say that the modern age of shorthanded ...

Thanks to everyone who took the time to reply to last week’s survey on swinging our compasses. We got a large and fun response. First, 44% do swing their compass from time to time and 77% do it ...

When compared to other tropical cruising paradises, French Polynesia is the least likely to suffer hurricanes or cyclones (published March 2018) After the devastating 2017 hurricane season in the ...

On Tuesday of this week, American singlehanded offshore sailor Erica Lush arrived in Bermuda from Newport in four days and 18 hours to finish third in her class in the Bermuda 1-2 regatta. The event ...

In early June, we had the opportunity to cruise on a Dragonfly 28 “Touring” in Denmark’s “South Sea”. After a full week of sailing with the entire family over hundreds of miles, varied weather ...

We have been following the line of performance cruisers being introduced by Rapido Trimarans and the Triac Composites yard in Viet Nam for two years The launch of the newest model, the 53XS –for Extra ...

The new Oceanis 30.1 is the little sister to all of the boats in the Oceanis line but in particular it is most closely related to the 46.1 and 40.1. All three bear a strong next-generation family ...