Vivian Vuong is on a mission to make sailing more accessible to all. Issue 142: Jan/Feb 2022 One of sailing’s great paradoxes is that while it offers an immense sense of freedom, in exchange you must ...
The family business that sparked a DIY sail- and canvas-making revolution. Issue 147: Nov/Dec 2022 When I call Matt Grant, vice president of Sailrite, to interview him for this article, I’m surprised ...
The backroom brothers who made masts and hardware for the famous Issue 111: Nov/Dec 2016 When you break a mast or need a new spreader base or just want to have a fresh coat of paint applied to an...
For those familiar with the writing and sailing accomplishments of Webb Chiles and his many voyages in small boats, a new short film about him is worth watching. The film follows the arch of Chiles...
Rob Ball’s legacy will live far beyond his years. I was shocked to hear of the recent death of my old friend Rob Ball at 79 years of age on September 9th from injuries suffered in a severe fall....
Issue 137: March/April 2021 Frank Willis Butler, the man who introduced hundreds of thousands of people to sailing during his lifetime as the founder, president, and chief executive officer of Catalin...
Issue 137: March/April 2021 Many boat owners will never have heard the name George Hazen, but most yacht designers know it well. It’s a bit of a cliché to say that George, who died in December 2020, w...
Relying on celestial navigation and a very good old boat, Bert ter Hart solos the globe. Issue 137: March/April 2021 When Bert ter Hart bought his OCY 45, he had an inkling that down the road, she mig...
Issue 135: Nov/Dec 2020 Marvin Creamer, a New Jersey geography professor who became the only known person to circumnavigate the globe without any instruments whatsoever—not even a timepiece—died in Au...
Issue 135: Nov/Dec 2020 When I think about my friend, Larry Pardey, I picture an old cowboy crossing the open range and coming across a barbed-wire fence. Though he cuts it in disgust and drives his h...
Issue 134: Sept/Oct 2020 If you’re lucky in this life, you uncover, understand, and embrace what makes you happy. And if you’re gifted in this passion, if you can make it the foundation of your purpos...
Issue 134: Sept/Oct 2020 After nearly three weeks on a ventilator in a Cape Town, South Africa, hospital, stricken with COVID-19, world voyager Patrick Childress sailed over the horizon for the last t...
A variety of factors contributed to the end of yacht design’s golden age. Issue 133: July/Aug 2020 I recently finished reading Dick Carter’s autobiography, Dick Carter: Yacht Designer in the Gol...
Yacht designer Ted Brewer gazes back over a storied career. Issue 133: July/Aug 2020 Ted and Betty Brewer’s living room is warm and inviting. Two harpoons hang on teak-colored walls, and a model boxca...
The designer of some of sailing’s most legendary boats, Bob Perry continues to push boundaries. Issue 135: Nov/Dec 2020 The design studio of Robert “Bob” Perry, upstairs in his Marysville, Washi...
In a lifetime of passagemaking and writing, John Kretschmer pays the love of sailing forward. Issue 130: Jan/Feb 2020 When we were planning our eventual leap to the full-time sailing life, my b...
Lee Brubacher and 17 other volunteers from the West Highland Baptist Church of Hamilton, Ontario are our Dogwatch Sailors of the Month. In September of this year, these folks partnered with Oceanwise ...
Robert K. Johnson, N.A., is the founder, chief designer, and CEO of Island Packet Yachts of Largo, Florida. The company is celebrating its 25th anniversary in the boatbuilding business, specializing i...
