An interview with the first U.S. woman to sail solo around the world Issue 34: Jan/Feb 2004 WHEN KAREN THORNDIKE SAILED into Hobart, Tasmania, in the late 1990s she was greeted as a hero. She’d just c...
A keen racer, this Canadian started out as a journalist before teaching himself yacht design Issue 33 : Nov/Dec 2003 “Cheat the nursing home — die in your Laser.” That catch-phrase appears on bumper s...
Multihull designer Ian Farrier popularized the concept of trimarans Issue 35 : Mar/Apr 2004 The wind was blowing only 13 to 14 knots in Canterbury Bight off Timaru on New Zealand’s South Island, yet w...
His designs were few but all became timeless classics Issue 36 : May/Jun 2004 Traditional. Classic. Timeless. Character boats. Boats from the heart. These are just some of the terms the owners of boat...
Reducing the black art of design to light weight and long waterline Issue 37 : Jul/Aug 2004 Bill Lee, who introduced ultralights into the sailboat race circuit in the 1970s, calls designing racing sai...
A baby-blue Mark II Spencer 35 heads for the horizon Issue 38 : Sept/Oct 2004 In 2002, Jim Kellam won the Singlehanded Transpac Race in his refurbished Spencer 35 Mk II. The Canadian from Vancouver wo...
Meet the cruising couple who inspired a generation of dreamers Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 If it’s true that “marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes,” as Scottish novelist and poet...
How a gutsy sailor founded a well-known magazine Issue 45 : Nov/Dec 2005 “The safe enjoyment of cruising under sail.” That phrase, which concluded the first editorial in the first issue of Cruising Wo...