Buying a Boat
Our Biggest Priorities when Shopping for a Cruising Catamaran
Bigger or Faster? Choosing the Size of Your Cruising Catamaran
Fountaine Pajot
The Helia Versus the Helia Evolution
20,000nm Helia Review – An Update
6,000nm Helia Review
Route Planning
Cruising the Indian Ocean: Planning for 2019
Planning a Circumnavigation
Cruising the South Pacific
Highlights from 3 Months in the Caribbean
Sailing Tips & Tricks
Important Knots for Cruisers to Know by Heart
Best Sail Configurations for Downwind Sailing on a Cruising Catamaran
Sail Trim for a Cruising Catamaran
Sailing Stories
Sailing from Australia to Indonesia: Horn to Debut
Our second Pacific crossing
4,146 NM Sailing Across the Atlantic
On December 9th, 2019, we crossed 20 degrees east to exit the Indian Ocean after over 500 days of cruising and sailing over 10,900 nm! There are many paths to take, and cruising boats veer outside of the scope of this post. Indian Ocean routes typically start in Australia, since many boats go to wait…
When we wrote our first sail trim for a cruising catamaran blog post, we were just about to move aboard Starry Horizons for our circumnavigation. We’d been sailing a 30-foot Maine Cat around Galveston Bay, getting some sailing experience under our belts. Starry Horizons is a pretty big leap, and we’ve learned a lot about…
We’d spent about a week anchored off of Horn Island, exploring Thursday Island, the capital of the Torres Strait Islands. As most of the rally fleet was here, we were in good company, getting to spend time with friends. Throughout the week, most boats took off sailing from Australia to Indonesia, while we got held…
Plotting world circumnavigation routes is a lot easier than it sounds. There are cruising boats LITERALLY all over the world. There are boats in the Northwest passage (up and over Canada), in the Antarctic, and everywhere in between. There are a few key things to take into consideration, but 95%* of circumnavigation routes follow the same general…
As we’ve been cruising the world, we have discovered that in most places our charts are fairly accurate. However, there are some places completely inaccurate charts. One of the most obvious ones on our first year across the Pacific was Beveridge Reef, a small atoll just east of Niue. Some Chart Basics All electronic charts…
I’ve been incredibly lucky to have been sailing since I was little. Although I didn’t get really into it until David did, I grew up having a family that supported me, like my mom, my stepdad, my dad, and my uncle. I was never short of opportunities to try out anything I wanted to, including sailing….
There are hundreds of unique knots out there for every use under the sun. But since we started cruising in 2014 and finished our world sailing circumnavigation in 2020, we have found that these are the three most important knots for sailors to know by heart. Learn the, use them, love them. Bowline This is…
After a glorious second season in the South Pacific, we took off to sail southwest to Australia to tuck away for hurricane season. The Passage We hustled our butts and got out of Noumea before noon on Monday the 27th. Several boats had left for Australia over the previous days, but we couldn’t clear out…