What to Know: Search and Rescue Transponders (AIS, RACON, SART)
Since small recreational vessels are not required to carry a Search and Rescue Transponders, what is the justification of having one onboard?
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Kids & SCUBA Diving – What to Know Before You Go
The key to success is knowing when your child is ready and choosing the type of instruction. A lifetime of exploring awaits
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Tips for Cruising with Pets in the Caribbean
Tips and tricks regarding cruising with pets in the Caribbean, including import / export and what to consider regarding care and health.
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Summer Boat Storage in the Caribbean: Tips for Hurricane Season
Discover essential tips for storing your boat in the Caribbean during hurricane season. Learn about insurance, security, and preparation steps.
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When and How to Abandon Ship – Save a Life! Maybe your own…
When disaster strikes onboard an assessment must be made whether to abandon the vessel. Save a life and review the Tips on WHEN and HOW to Abandon Ship.
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How to Text when you are out of Cellular Range – Satellite Communication
New offerings have brought two-way satellite communication to within the realm and budget of most, and all in a very compact package.
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Save the Coral Reef AND Protect Yourself from Skin Cancer
There is nothing like sailing with the wind in your hair, sea spray across your face and sun warming every inch of uncovered skin. Unfortunately, these three natural elements – wind, water and sun – cause a triple threat where healthy skin is concerned. That’s because both water and wind damage the skin’s protective barrier…
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Cruising Inexpensively, Cheaply, and Safely
Cruising safely at sea isn’t a matter of bank account level, it is a matter of hard work, knowledge, and seamanship. You might live or die by it
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How to Sail in Heavy Weather – Tips on Reefing and Heaving To
Know the steps as apparent wind approaches gale force and practice them in calm weather. Build the skills needed to overcome the challenge.
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How to Sail: What are the Different Points Of Sail
The points of sail explained simply, with a clear diagram — from the no-go zone and close-hauled through beam reach, broad reach, and running downwind
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Yacht Charters Offer Something for Everyone – Here’s How
A charter yacht vacation offers something for everyone. This is true whether it’s bareboat or crewed. That said, and to narrow things down, All At Sea asked five experienced Caribbean charter professionals what to look for, ask for and expect in five different guest scenarios. Here’s what they said: FAMILIES WITH CHILDREN Family-wise, just about everybody…
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What Anchoring Equipment Do we Use? – Material & Basic Maneuvers
Reliable anchoring equipment and the knowledge of how to use it is essential for cruisers. What Anchoring Equipment Do we Use?
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How to Drive and Dock a Boat in Current
Currents act exactly like the moving sidewalks at an airport. Walking with the direction of a moving sidewalk speeds you up, and against slows you down.
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Hard Choice: Fabric or Solid Bimini?
I didn’t have a Bimini on my first two boats. I was too wacked out to realize that orange disk in the sky was the sun.
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Planning for Tides & the Rule of Twelfths
Tides are the vertical rise and fall of sea level caused by the effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon, the Sun, and the rotation of Earth
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Potential Problems that could Arise While at Sea
What are the potential problems that could arise while at sea to endanger your ship and its crew? The list is pretty big.
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Packing a Ditch Bag 101 – What to Carry at All Times
Ditch bags, also called a go-bag or bail-bag. What’s packed inside can spell the difference between life or death if you need to abandon vessel
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Sailing Rig Configurations Explained, Mocked, & Pondered
Your boat has the rig it needs. If it doesn’t—buy a new boat, not a new rig. Misconceptions exist about sailing rig configurations
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Weather Forecasting With a Barometer
Lots of weather forecasting apps and other Web-based weather services available to boaters, the barometer is overlooked as a local weather forecasting tool.
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Supply and Demand: The Caribbean Art of Shopping Local
Before the big-box and mega-store era, a Caribbean island shopping excursion often resembled an Easter egg hunt. Several times a week, list in hand, hope in heart, I would set off in search of everyday items, knowing my inquiries for tomatoes, coffee or something I sorely needed might be met with, “Nah today.†I tried…
