All At Sea Editorial by
Andy Schell
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Yacht Rigging Part 1 - Design Particulars
Much like the adage about air travel that states ‘so long as you have your wallet and your passport, you’ll make it,’ successful bluewater sailing relies on two of its own simple principles: keep the rig up and the water out.
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Celestial Navigation Part IV - Publication 249 and The Universal Plotting Sheet
Celestial is coastal navigation on a galactic scale; the sextant essentially an advanced hand-bearing compass.
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Celestial Navigation Part III - Tips and Tricks on Sight Reduction
Most books on celestial will offer a ‘simple’ sight reduction form. Don’t use it. Most of these forms are standardized for use with any celestial body, and will contain information not applicable to a sun sight.
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Celestial Navigation Part II - Predicting the Suns Geographic Position
Understanding celestial theory is best accomplished through a series of mental exercises that puts your mind in the real world and gets your nose out of the books and off the charts.
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Celestial Part I Championing a Dying Art
Celestial demands the navigator head offshore for a few hundred miles and, from the deck of a rolling sailboat, aim a bronze contraption at the sun, without blinding himself, while measuring its angle off the horizon ...
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Swashbuckling Sint Eustatius
Statia is an island steeped in history. It's not difficult to picture Gallow's Bay brimming with square-riggers and schooners (over 3,500 ships called in one year in the 1700s) and the waterfront alive with activity.
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Caught in the Middle
To exist in the middle requires practical compromise, arguing for both sides of the polarizing sailing literature that is available.
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Seeking Exciting and Unpredictable Challenges Offshore
The crew of Callisto, learned about their boat and about themselves, and came to understand that ocean sailing remains a highly personal endeavor, a daunting challenge and, one that can be incredibly rewarding.
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Ocean Sailing for the First Time
Inspecting the boat before departure on a long journey is of the utmost importance.
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Ignore Rigging at Your Own Peril
Many boat owners ignore the rigging issue, taking the startling attitude that if it's held up for 30 years it's probably just fine...
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Hands On Approach to Caribbean Passage Planning
Last summer, my fiancee Mia Karlsson and I led a teenage live-aboard sail-training program for the adventure travel outfit Broadreach.
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What to Do When Your Engine Breaks Down
Arcturus, my 35-foot yawl, wasn't two days out of Ft. Lauderdale when smoke poured out of the companionway accompanied by the awful smell of an electrical meltdown.
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Maintaining Your Brightwork with Good Old Spar Varnish
The one upgrade that we yet hadn't completed was the most obvious. Like many older boats, ours had a lot of wood that needed refinishing. There was a lot of old Cetol and a lot of scraping ahead.
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Investment and Maintenance of Onboard Watermakers Part 3
We examine the initial investment, installation and long-term maintenance involved in a typical sea-going desalinization unit.
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On Board Watermakers Part 2
Examines the technical aspects of producing water onboard, unit choices and power consumption.
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Should You Get an On Board Watermaker
Though oft considered high-tech in the cruising world, current technology that allows us to produce potable water from the ocean has been around for some 40 years.
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Caribbean 1500 Cruising Rally Launches Event to Bahamas
The inauguration Caribbean 1500 jaunt from the Chesapeake to the Bahamas, 1000 miles and sailed it in only five days.
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A Wrong-Way Hurricane and Offshore Rigging Repairs
My dad was sailing a 46' Gran Soleil sloop from Annapolis to Tortola, one week out and 300 miles from anywhere and heard the news of a wrong-way, late-season hurricane
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How NOT to Clear Customs and Immigration
After three hours, I'd finally resigned myself to the fact that I would be spending the night in a Grenadian prison.
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Teenage Crew Learns Lessons in Self Sufficiency
It was about Day 22 of the sail-training program I was running this past summer, and the boatload full of eager high-schoolers from around the world all were anticipating our next landfall
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The Importance of Celestial Navigation
Just as Stephen Hawking unlocked the mysteries of the heavens in his “The Universe in a Nutshell,” so does Schlereth in “Celestial in a Nutshell.” Schlereth lifts the fog of celestial, de-mystifying the art in surprisingly
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Anchoring Under Sail
“To think that a lot of people consider it very difficult to enter a harbor without an engine…it depends on the harbor, of course, but if they would only try it, perhaps they would never again press the starter.“
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Cool for Cats - Sail Trim Tips for Cruising Catamarans
Off the wind, catamarans are rocket ships, which I quickly learned when Beluga, our 46’ F.P. Bahia, surfed down the long swell
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