On Watch: Why Smart Sailors Prioritize Sleep at Sea
Well-rested sailors make better decisions. From dry bunks to sleep strategies, here’s how to stay sharp and safe offshore.
Well-rested sailors make better decisions. From dry bunks to sleep strategies, here’s how to stay sharp and safe offshore.
Some seamanship lessons are harder to learn than others, but in the end, having common sense offshore is always the key.
Plenty of sailors can spin a good yarn at the bar, but it’s a real trick to be able to turn a phrase on paper.
The best thing you can pack in your first-aid kid is enough common sense not to get hurt in the first place.
If the goal is pleasurable cruising, then the first order of business is to skip all the time-sucking add-ons.
Chafe can be a sailor’s worst nightmare, sometimes chewing like a chainsaw through parts of a boat.
The decision to abandon a voyage can be caused by seamanship or safety issues—or is it a situation that can be handled?
Cap’n Fatty Goodlander makes the switch to LED lights aboard Ganesh.
As Ganesh’s systems grow more complicated, Cap’n Fatty has had to spend plenty of time solving electrical problems aboard.
After losing Trinka, a classic Rhodes Reliant 41, in Hurricane Irma, owner Thatcher Lord went through the difficult task of salvaging her.
Circumnavigator Cap’n Fatty Goodlander offers a few tips for anchoring in challenging conditions found in the South Pacific.
In the latest episode of Cocktails with Cruising World, editors Herb McCormick and Mark Pillsbury catch up with longtime contributors and circumnavigators Carolyn and Cap’n Fatty Goodlander.
Well-rested sailors make better decisions. From dry bunks to sleep strategies, here’s how to stay sharp and safe offshore.
Some seamanship lessons are harder to learn than others, but in the end, having common sense offshore is always the key.
Plenty of sailors can spin a good yarn at the bar, but it’s a real trick to be able to turn a phrase on paper.
The best thing you can pack in your first-aid kid is enough common sense not to get hurt in the first place.
If the goal is pleasurable cruising, then the first order of business is to skip all the time-sucking add-ons.
Chafe can be a sailor’s worst nightmare, sometimes chewing like a chainsaw through parts of a boat.
The decision to abandon a voyage can be caused by seamanship or safety issues—or is it a situation that can be handled?
Cap’n Fatty Goodlander makes the switch to LED lights aboard Ganesh.
As Ganesh’s systems grow more complicated, Cap’n Fatty has had to spend plenty of time solving electrical problems aboard.
After losing Trinka, a classic Rhodes Reliant 41, in Hurricane Irma, owner Thatcher Lord went through the difficult task of salvaging her.
Circumnavigator Cap’n Fatty Goodlander offers a few tips for anchoring in challenging conditions found in the South Pacific.
In the latest episode of Cocktails with Cruising World, editors Herb McCormick and Mark Pillsbury catch up with longtime contributors and circumnavigators Carolyn and Cap’n Fatty Goodlander.
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