Sitting on the bow pulpit seat, I can barely hear the throb of the motor. In these calm waters, the last few hundred miles to Australia,...

Which is quite sublime. Most places in the world could have a book written about them. Two or ten thousand years ago this place was much...

This is my friend at ElectroSAV. I am at an electronics shop and he’s showing me how to solder in a new resistor for the galley lighting...

It’s 2am and I’m on watch as we sail from Tahiti to the Tuamotus. Fakarava actually. The crew is below, asleep. My cockpit companions:...

You can point out the moon to your cat, but she will probably just nuzzle your finger! A provocative line in a book I’m reading. It made...

I crane to look above me, slowly turning and searching for the source of the wrinkled, falling shadows. Through the motes of early...

We aim to cultivate thoughtfull intelligence. We want our kids to know how the world works, but also the joy and power of learning, and...

Today we will leave civilization. We will hoist and stow anchor and sail south across the doldrums and then 3200 nautical miles...

In the stillness of early morning the whales are crying in the sea. The mournful calls transmit across this shallow ocean through our...

I tucked the paperback into the helm-seat. The interruption of Conrad’s Chance first started with the gastric disturbance welling from...

Crossing to the Berrys Despite the constant fury of sounds, motions and airs, it is usually the smallest of changes that awakens. Rarely...

Cuba is a lanky cowboy named Jesus sitting a donkey in a baseball diamond. Toes dragging the blanched dirt, tending his goats. Cuba is a...

First night out 2/9/18 The sun has slipped behind Fort Lauderdale leaving an ochre bruise in the western sky; to the east we sail under...