Sailboat Cruising, I’ve got to keep learning!

Since me and my family live three hours from the ocean, I’m obviously not on my boat as often as I want to be, but I want to keep learning as much as possible on technical sailboat cruising subjects.  These are often the ones that involve expensive specialty experts; who are more than happy to […]

“The Checklist” and “Mariners Trip Planning” by Chris Couch

I stumbled across reference to Captain Chris Couch’s books while reading the July 2016 Edition of Northwest Yachting, Volume 30, No 1.   Not something I read all the time, but it has a lot of great articles and I hope I can find more volumes.  Inside, I stumbled across the section detailing some of the […]

Pre-Ocean Checks/Pre-Ocean Inspections and Captain Chris Couch

The ungodly heat for most of the summer (where I live) drives me toward our boat,  but it can’t happen every weekend, so I write about related subjects here. Whether you own a speedboat for the River, an ocean-going yacht, a sailboat or an airplane; you probably run through a checklist in your head for […]