Moving onto a cruising boat with your partner for the first time is a big departure from life ashore. You tend to be together ...

With this issue of Cruising Compass we celebrate our 1,000 th issue. We launched the newsletter in August 2001, 24 years ago and since then we have published and emailed new content every week, except ...

That’s what happened to British skipper Peter Rutter, who is a former commodore o the Royal Ocean Racing Club, while delivering his 43-foot sloop from England to Malta in the Mediterranean. Two ...

Here’s a recent news blast that will be of interest to the worldwide cruising community. Famed marine tech wizard, author and ...

We learned last week that old friend Charles Tobias had passed away at his home in Vero Beach, Florida. He was 91. I got to know Charles later in his life when he was living in the BVI and focused on ...

Following the purchase of Catalina and True North Yachts earlier this year by boat building entrepreneur Michael Reardon, the sailing community wondered where the new owner and his team would lead the ...

The three Grenadian men accused of murdering Ralph Hendry and Kathy Brandell last year have been found guilty and given long jail sentences by the Grenadian high court bringing some semblance of ...

Florida builder Island Packet Yachts, one of only a few sailboat builders in North America, recently added a new 42-foot motor sailer to their fleet. Designed by IPY founder Bob Johnson and the IPY ...

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On April 30, Daedalus Yachts founder Michael Reardon announced that he and his company had acquired Catalina Yachts and its sister company True North. The announcement signals both a major shift in ...

It is not often that we put the words “couple’s performance cruiser” in the same headline as the words “67- foot ultimate.” That’s big boat for a couple. But, therein lies the story of the new Pegasus ...

In the last two years, Zoleo has made great inroads with the cruising community and for good reason. For example, when the Salty Dawg Rally organizers decided to make satellite-based comms a ...