We’re both USCG Masters and have sailed over 30,000 nm on Starry Horizons. But we still learn all the time!
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…
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…
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…
We absolutely love cruising remote destinations. There’s a beautiful feeling about being all alone in nature. But, just because boats have sailed the oceans since the dawn of man doesn’t mean that our charts are accurate. And here’s where SAS Planet comes in. Why You Need to Use SAS Planet Last year we noticed that…
David and I firmly believe that we should both be able to manage Starry Horizons on our own if, heaven forbid, one of us were to fall overboard or become incapacitated. Much of this requires advanced setup. Here are some things to think about when setting up your boat for single-handing. Run Drills David and…
When David and I met, David had been out sailing once as a child. Now, we’ve completed a world circumnavigation together and we are both experienced and skilled skippers. In the years between meeting (2008) and taking off sailing (2014), we were lucky to have a lot of opportunities to learn to sail. We recognize…
Cruising catamaran sail trim can be a fairly technical issue with differing opinions about how to best trim the sails to optimize boat speed and balance. I most certainly will not profess to be an expert in the subject, but I do feel I’ve come a long ways from when I first learned how to sail…