Aqua Map is a fantastic app for route planning and navigation, with excellent (and affordable) charts. Learn all the features that make it a winner.
🎧Why Does Weather Matter
What’s the big deal about weather? As a cruiser, it’s critical information! Nica’s story about an afternoon on the Chesapeake will help you see why.
Abandoning Ship
If you have to abandon ship, there are only seconds to grab the most important items off your boat. Learn how to prepare from someone who has been there.
🎧Lin Pardey Answers Cruiser Questions
How has cruising changed? Lin Pardey answers cruiser questions and shares the secret to the best voyaging life.
🎧Storms at Sea
What does it feel like offshore when winds top 50 knots? We’ll tell you, review some common heavy weather equipment, and share ideas for coping.
🎧 Navigation Tools
After a lifetime of cruising with sextant and hand-bearing compass, Lin Pardey goes cruising with GPS and compares the experience. Is GPS really safer, or just easier?
🎧 Jury-Rig Your Rigging
A rigging failure is one of the scariest things that can happen on an offshore passage. Techniques for getting yourself to safety without outside assistance.
Travel Time
Travels by boat are so much more uncertain than travels by land. We think we understand that and allow for it, but any cruiser’s first trip seems to be filled with surprises about just how long it takes.
🎧Magic in Choosing a Better Anchorage
A planned anchored just won’t work in the condtions, and it’s pretty disappointing. But maybe the alternate will be even better!
🎧Anchoring for Squalls
How do you prepare for an unexpected squall? Can you? Sure you can! Tips for anchoring.