Willoughby Expedition Retraces 1897 Route to Assess Water Quality in the Everglades In a modern echo of an 1897 journey, the 2022 Willoughby Expedition retraced the route of scientist and explorer Hugh de Laussat Willoughby through the Florida Everglades to measure contemporary human impacts on one of the world’s largest subtropical wildernesses. The team set … Read more

RNLI Lifeboat Rescues Stricken Yacht in Force 10 Winds Off Porthleven Source: Maritime and Coastguard Agency On Halloween night, a serious maritime rescue unfolded just two miles off Porthleven, the town located on England’s southwestern coast. A 40-foot yacht with eight people aboard sent a mayday call as it began to take on water in … Read more

U.S. Coast Guard and Nearby Vessels Rescue 13 People Off Virginia Before Fishing Boat Sinks In the early hours Friday morning, the U.S. Coast Guard, assisted by nearby research and fishing vessels, rescued 13 people — including a child — from a fishing boat just moments before it sank off the coast of Virginia. The … Read more

From a California Horse Ranch to Platinum Loopers: The Smiths’ Two Loops Aboard an Aquila 44 April and Larry Smith spent most of their lives far from long-term boating. As young adults they had only brief encounters with life at sea—April crewed an 86-foot yawl in Marina del Rey and Larry spent nine months as … Read more

Farr 50 Pilot House: A Classic Pilothouse Sailing Yacht For many years pilothouse sailing yachts often looked ungainly—salons that rose awkwardly above the deck and interrupting otherwise sleek offshore lines. The Farr 50 Pilot House, Design #373 by Bruce Farr and his team, introduced in 1997, changed that perception. This design combined true offshore capability … Read more

Sea Trade — Humboldt Bay, 1898 On May 27, 1898, the busy waters of Humboldt Bay, California, formed the backdrop for an era of transition. Euro-American settlement in the region began less than fifty years earlier, when the first ships arrived from San Francisco in the spring of 1850 carrying passengers bound for the gold … Read more

Maryland Dove Replica Arrives at Historic St. Mary’s City After five years of planning and nearly three years of construction, the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) in St. Michaels, Maryland, has completed and delivered the new Maryland Dove to its permanent home in Historic St. Mary’s City. The reproduction arrived on August 27, 2022, escorted … Read more

I met Mary and Chris Kelleher aboard their Krogen 36 Manatee, Manatee named Cashelmara, on a hot, sunny afternoon in Annapolis, Maryland. They were only days away from completing a longtime goal—crossing their own wake in New York Harbor to finish their first Great Loop, a voyage they began in May 2021. Both raised near … Read more

Rick and Suzanne Rosenwald: Harbor Hosts Helping Loopers on Lake Michigan Rick and Suzanne Rosenwald have spent their lives helping others—he as a retired firefighter and she as a retired paramedic and healthcare worker—and that spirit of service continues now on the water. After completing America’s Great Loop aboard their DeFever 44, the couple began … Read more

Preparing to Go Offshore: Lessons from a South Pacific Circumnavigation In 2018 Jeff Bolster and his wife, Molly, left Portsmouth, New Hampshire, aboard their Valiant 40, Chanticleer, intending to circumnavigate. After stops in the Caribbean, Panama, the Galápagos, French Polynesia, the Cook Islands and Tonga, they reached New Zealand to wait out the South Pacific … Read more