Just like many of you, | learned to sail here at Spinnaker Sailing School. When | graduated from Basic Coastal Cruising in late 2013, | had difficulty finding a crew to sail with regularly, so | started practicing sailing solo on theMerit 25s. | was hooked and never looked back. | love sailing solo, the […]
Cruising in Raiatea’s azure lagoon, I first spotted the paddler about a mile away. No matter how I maneuvered our charter boat, the outrigger canoe steered a dead-on collision course to us. This area is tricky because of the reef that borders the island’s eastern side. It appeared that some local convention was eluding me. […]
Getting There Kenneth Grahame got it absolutely right when he wrote “There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.” Since I sail with the Potter Yachters, a dedicated bunch of small craft sailing enthusiasts who love their West Wight Potters, I had always assumed that […]
Sunlight hits your face as a cool breeze travels across your bed. The lapping of water and the fragrance of a million types of flowers wakes you. Outside your hatch is an aquarium full of an unimaginable number of aquatic species waiting to be discovered and luscious green hills that provide a perfect backdrop to another day […]