Amy’s spent her whole life around boats, and David’s catching up quickly! We’re both 100 Ton USCG Masters, professional skippers, and world circumnavigators. In October of 2014, we launched Starry Horizons to begin our cruising life, and in March of 2020, we completed our world circumnavigation.
Buying a Boat
- Choosing a Boat: How to Find Your Ideal Sailing Catamaran
- Tips for the Annapolis Boat Show
- Miami Boat Show Overview
- Moving Day: Shipping Stuff to Our Boat
- Downsizing Our Stuff to Move Aboard a Boat
- Naming or Renaming Ceremony for a Boat
- Bigger or Faster? Choosing the Size of Your Cruising Catamaran
- Eleven Things We Learned When Buying a New Boat
Cruising Expenses
Catamaran Brands & Model Reviews
Fountaine Pajot
- Fountaine Pajot Sailing YouTube Channels
- Test Sailing our Future Boat
- Meeting Our Boat & Touring the Fountaine Pajot Factory
- Transport, Launch, and Handover of Our New Boat
- Our First Sail
- Fountaine Pajot Helia 44 Review
- The Helia Versus the Helia Evolution
Route Planning
- Highlights from 3 Months in the Caribbean
- Cruising the South Pacific
- Sailing Around the World Presentations
- Planning a Circumnavigation
- Cruising the Indian Ocean: Planning for 2019
- Crossing the Atlantic from South Africa for 2020
- World Circumnavigation Summary
- World Circumnavigation Q&A
Sailing Tips & Tricks
- Sail Trim for a Cruising Catamaran
- Learn to Sail and Cruise
- Single-Handing a Cruising Catamaran
- SAS Planet: Navigate Uncharted Reefs
- Top Knots for Cruisers to Memorize
- How to Fix Inaccurate Charts
- Downwind Sailing on a Cruising Catamaran
- Radar Feature: Rain Filter
- Radar Feature: MARPA Targets
- How to Send a Float Plan When Sailing Offshore
- Sun Protection While Sailing
- Lazu Jacks for Your Sailboat
- Sailing Quotes
Sailing Stories
- Finishing Our World Circumnavigation Sailing from Recife to the Caribbean
- Saint Helena to Recife Brazil
- Sailing Cape Town to Saint Helena
- Sailing the Mozambique Channel
- Passage to Madagascar
- Running out of Fuel from Chagos to Seychelles
- Sailing from Phuket Thailand to Trincomalee, Sri Lanka
- Sailing from Australia to Indonesia: Horn to Debut
- Fastest Passage: New Caledonia to Australia
- Fountaine Pajot Regatta: Sailing Fiji to Vanuatu
- Our second Pacific crossing
- Sailing from Portland, OR to San Fransisco, CA
- Opua, New Zealand to Vava’u Tonga
- Our Roughest Passage: Sailing from Fiji to New Zealand
- Crossing the Date Line: Sailing Niue to Tonga
- Sailing Bora Bora to Beveridge Reef
- Our First Pacific Crossing: 19 Days at Sea
- Becoming Shellbacks: Sailing Panama to Galapagos
- Sailing Grenada to Panama
- The Bermuda Triangle is Real
- Sailing to Bermuda
- Sailing from Marsh Harbor, Bahamas to Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Sailing the Florida Bay & Across the Gulf Stream
- Miami to Palmetto: Around the Keys
- 4,146 NM Sailing Across the Atlantic
- Sailing La Coruna to Las Palmas
- Crossing the Bay of Biscay