The company’s new PWAI is PredictWind’s proprietary AI-powered model that was developed in-house by an AI expert. In Beta ...

We’ve celebrated the holiday aboard our boat in Sea Island, Georgia, South Island, New Zealand, Phuket, Thailand, Larnaca, Cyprus, and Palma, Mallorca – there after a beautiful Christmas eve at the 12 ...

For months I had been following reports of orca attacks on sailboats along the Iberian coast—rudders broken clean off, ...

On an eastward crossing of the North Atlantic solo sailor Trevor Robertson dodged Hurricane Bertha and encountered Cristobal in his gaff cutter Iron Bark. Then on the way ...

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

For the last three years I have lived on Sila, a Boréal 47, with my family. My parents wrote a while ago about living with kids on a ...

This is something every offshore skipper has contemplated. Losing the rudder far from land is often a reason to abandon ship. But, in some cases in which the boat is not leaking and you have a ...

Here’s a recent news blast that will be of interest to the worldwide cruising community. Famed marine tech wizard, author and cruising sailor Nigel Calder has decided to build a new Oubound 44. The ...

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 ...

Before reading on, please take a moment to fill out this week’s survey so we can share your knowledge and experiences with the Cruising Compass family. Thanks. Thanks to everyone who took the time to ...

Premier French yacht manufacturer has revealed it will launch a new flagship model, The Dufour 63 Exclusive, at the Dusseldorf Boat Show this January. Dufour says its new ...

What shoreline knows not our maps? Most of them, it turns out. While satellites map much of the globe on a daily basis, there are parts of the ...