Sailing Magazine : The Beauty of Sail

1. Dunedin Boat Club
(EventList / Dunedin Boat Club)

... Members own a mixture of powerboats and sailboats.  The sailboat-racing program is supported with a busy social and cruising calendar. The membership meets on the third Monday of the month ...

2. North star sailing club
(EventList / North star sailing club)

  email the webmaster   Mailing Address: 32041 S. River Rd. Harrison ...

3. Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club
(EventList / Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club)

... and offshore racing, cruising events, centreboard racing, social activities, a successful sailing academy for youth development, year round sail training programs, a schools program and its premier event  ...

4. Middle Harbour Yacht Club
(EventList / Middle Harbour Yacht Club)

... as well as IRC, IMS and PHS rated boats.  Another significant move was, with the wholehearted support of the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia and other Sydney clubs,  to make the SORC a standalone regatta. ...

5. Phang Nga Bay Regatta
(EventList / Phang Nga Bay Regatta)

... as the Ao Chalong Cruising Yacht Club (ACCYC). Established by several locals to get people together for cruising purposes, its first 'home' was Pan's Lighthouse with Horst Lakits serving as its commodore ...

6. Biscayne Bay Yacht Club
(EventList / Biscayne Bay Yacht Club)

... A FOURTH FLEET: “CRUISING/RACING”, FOR 2009. 1.  Active members of BBYRA may ELECT TO join this fleet by application to and approval of the BBYRA Board.  No additional registration fees will be required ...

7. Arizona Yacht Club
(EventList / Arizona Yacht Club)

... emphasis is on good times and good sailing, all year long. We have a full racing program, an active cruising group, and education for members and their children. Please look around and learn more about ...

8. Onne Van Der Wal
(EventList / Onne Van Der Wal)

... people year-round. Onne lives in Jamestown, RI with his wife Tenley and their 3 children, Read, Billy and Adrian, and often takes the family cruising and sailing - they are handy and capable models for ...

9. Nautor's Swan
(EventList / Nautor's Swan)

... Swan is pleased to announce another active programme of racing, cruising and boat shows for 2010. The main feature of the calendar will be the Rolex Swan Cup which will reach its 16th edition from 13 ...

10. The dawn of the affordable 50
(Feature/Features)

... the market to people who are using boats differently.” Banks said another demographic for this new series of production 50-footers is sailors who are interested in long-distance cruising but may not ...

11. Finn Flyer Racer-cruiser
(Boats and Gear/Perry on Design)

... to be designed to offer good, aggressive club racing and comfortable cruising. Without any disrespect I would call this design the most generic of the three this month. The boat is light with a D/L of ...

12. September 2010
(Contents by Issue/Table of Contents)

... within reach Boat Show Guide Get ready for tents, boats and fanfare; boat show season will soon be here Cruising through the Hood The natural bounty and challenging sailing make the Pacific Northwest’s ...

13. Island Hopping
(Feature/Features)

... they’re experts at the cruising lifestyle. Melinda fixed breakfast while Josh, 9, swung like a monkey on a rope off the rig; and George ran the 8:30 a.m. Panama Connection Net. Check-ins included a request ...

14. Let’s bring back the seamanship race—I have the perfect trophy
(Columnists/On the Wind)

... normal racing. The results might be surprising, too, because it wasn’t necessarily the fastest yachts that won. Often it was a cruising boat with a well-trained crew and seamanlike rigging that was able ...

15. Sunsail 384
(Boats and Gear/Boat Test)

Comfort and speed combine for fun cruising The Sunsail 384 (and its near identical sistership, the Leopard 38) was introduced at last year’s U.S. Sailboat Show in Annapolis, Maryland. Built in South ...

16. Moxie 37
(Boats and Gear/Perry on Design)

Here is a very interesting cruising cat built by Moxie Yachts of South Africa. The target goal for this design was for the “designer to create a coastal cruising boat with race boat performance.” Design ...

17. Privilege 745
(Boats and Gear/Perry on Design)

... of rocker aft in this design. Freeboard is high but it looks proportional and typical to what we see in cruising cats. That freeboard is used to get volume in the hulls. There are two layouts available ...

18. New boat: Seawind 1250
(Boats and Gear/Launchings)

Catamarans are wonderful cruising platforms and it’s not surprising that many sailors fall in love with sailing on two hulls and decide they want to own a multihull of their own. For sailors who want to ...

19. Quick Fixes
(How To/Technique)

Simple solutions to little problems will make your cruising time more comfortable, relaxing and enjoyable My wife and I aren’t world cruisers. We are never going to be world cruisers. Our 33-foot Morgan ...

20. August 2010
(Contents by Issue/Table of Contents)

Features Island Hopping The nooks and crannies of Panama’s San Blas archipelago are easily accessible to a cruising family’s catamaran Two Hulls to Jamaica A group of cruisers brave a tropical storm ...

21. The ghost fleet sails on, helping to keep sailing alive
(Columnists/Full and By)

... Columbias, for example. That’s an average of more than three new Columbia designs per year for the life of the company from 1961 to 1978. Pearson, America’s pioneer builder of cruising-racing fiberglass ...

22. Arey’s Pond 20
(Boats and Gear/Perry on Design)

... There is a lot of stowage volume aft for cruising gear but I’d like to see a dedicated spot near the galley for an Igloo cooler. I suppose it could go in the lazarette. In fact it might be better off there. ...

23. Great Lakes 40
(Boats and Gear/Perry on Design)

... design that he thought would provide the perfect boat for Great Lakes cruising. He calls the design the Great Lakes 40. The hull form is moderate with a D/L of 228. This provides good volume for cruising ...

24. Being OUT on the water takes on new meaning for a new charter company
(Columnists/Afloat)

... new meaning to cruising and its top skipper, along with the company’s public relations director, aren’t at all shy about making such distinctions. Co-founders Chris Bartick and Toby Stull literally encourage ...

25. Being OUT on the water takes on new meaning for a new charter company
(Columnists/Afloat)

... new meaning to cruising and its top skipper, along with the company’s public relations director, aren’t at all shy about making such distinctions. Co-founders Chris Bartick and Toby Stull literally encourage ...

26. Need a refit of the soul? Sailing provides the needed restoration
(Columnists/On the Wind)

... when he could go cruising with his wife. It was their dream, but she died suddenly before it was fulfilled. His kids were grown with families of their own, and he found that most of his friends were ...

27. Colorful experiences found when sailing in black and white
(Columnists/Full and By)

... of a winch, a sound that barely registers in daytime sailing, can seem a jarring intrusion. We sail at night usually because we have to as part of a cruising passage or a race, but there is a reason ...

28. June 2010
(Contents by Issue/Table of Contents)

... catboat into the heart of the Florida Everglades Oh, the People You Will Meet A sailor finds pleasure in meeting a cast of characters during a summer of charter sails Lazy Day Cruising A last-minute ...

29. S2 7.9
(Boats and Gear/Used Boat Notebook)

This trailerable racer-cruiser is popular with one-design and PHRF racers After a decade in the cruising boat business, S2 decided to enter the racing market. The first model was the trailerable racer-cruiser ...

30. How should I treat my fuel?
(How To/Boat Doctor)

... engine long and hard enough. A diesel engine needs to be run for a while at cruising temperature to be happy. A good rule of thumb is to run a diesel engine at temperature for about an hour once every ...

31. Dehler 32
(Boats and Gear/Perry on Design)

... Dehler 32 design comes from Judel/Vrolijk. The target owner for this design appears to be the sailor with a small family who enjoys cruising and the occasional club race. I think this describes many of ...

32. Pack-up-and-go sailing
(Feature/Features)

... imagine. Your trailersailer actually gives you freedoms that cruising sailors don’t have. You can hit the road and explore places that are off-limits to the marina-bound. So if you haven’t thought about ...

33. New boat: APBY 20 Catboat
(Boats and Gear/Launchings)

... that it packs the charm and sailability of a catboat along with a useable cruising interior in a package that can easily be trailered to any great sailing destination your heart and your vehicle allow. ...

34. Charter around the world
(Feature/Features)

... spend our summers sailing in the Mediterranean and New England. But this summer was different. Instead cruising aboard our boat Quetzal, we organized our most ambitious and exciting program yet, the around-the-world ...

35. New boat: Beneteau Oceanis 50
(Boats and Gear/Launchings)

... the 50 offers a great cruising platform for a crowd. As it should be, the cockpit is the hub of this cruising boat. A large and comfortable seating area with a cockpit table that features bottle holders, ...

36. e44
(Boats and Gear/Perry on Design)

... more options in sheeting angles. If I use the published sail area for upwind I get an SA/D of 29.46. That’s generous for a cruising boat. The cockpit is very interesting. There is a big door in the transom ...

37. Ericson 39
(Boats and Gear/Used Boat Notebook)

... both very workable numbers for practical cruising. The ballast-to-displacement ratio is nearly 50 percent, accounting for a high degree of stiffness. The sail area/displacement ratio of 16.62 was perfect ...

38. A little disorganization goes a long way toward fun sailing
(Columnists/On the Wind)

... serious racers. They are cruising boats, mess around boats, fun-on-the-water boats. Sure, they can sail in the club series or the beer cans, but hard-core racing yachts are far and few between. That’s ...

39. New boat: Dehler 32
(Boats and Gear/Launchings)

The Dehler brand is known for combining the best of the cruising and racing worlds and continues that theme in its new Dehler 32, introduced at the Düsseldorf boat show in February. The boat sizes down ...

40. Boatyard Sense
(How To/Technique)

... via the keel, is common and acceptable. It would perhaps be wise to snugly tie the jacks together under the keel to prevent them splaying out. This system is especially suited to cruising boats with long, ...

41. Sun Odyssey 33i
(Boats and Gear/Perry on Design)

Family cruiser Here is a new Marc Lombard design for Jeanneau’s Sun Odyssey series that covers pretty much all the bases. It’s clear to me that the boat was designed primarily as a fast family cruising ...

42. Dibley 57
(Boats and Gear/Perry on Design)

... a high-performance cruising yacht. I have no information on the builder and perhaps this design is available for a custom project. It’s great to have a set of hull lines. I can actually tell you what ...

43. Living in the Moment at Sea
(Columnists/Afloat)

... and, if necessary, to lodge protests. The atmosphere was seldom as intense during chowder races, those mixed-bag competitions that pit high-tech screamers against sluggish cruising boats and anything ...

44. Bayfield 32
(Boats and Gear/Used Boat Notebook)

... a cruising boat. And although I was a kid stuck in Michigan, I was dreaming of the South Pacific and, until I later encountered the doughty Westsail 32, the Bayfield 32 was a regular in my dreams. Bayfields ...

45. Sawyer 48MS
(Boats and Gear/Perry on Design)

... squatting as you push up against that hull-speed wall. Even taken to the extreme shown in the Nordhavn, “top cruising speed” is limited to 9 knots according to their data. My 48-footer has a fine entry ...

46. Catalina Capri 18
(Boats and Gear/Retrofits)

... waters. It also makes launch and haul-out much easier for trailersailors than the word “keelboat” implies. The Capri 18’s cruising comfort is built into the details: an extra-long cockpit with 6-foot, ...

47. Olson 25
(Boats and Gear/Retrofits)

... when it luffs. It has just one reef for distance racing and cruising. The sail is loose footed and has class standard insignias, stripes and sail numbers. The sail cost us $1,500. We went with two headsails, ...

48. Privilege 39
(Boats and Gear/Retrofits)

Bluewater cruising on a cat is possible with a sturdy boat and safety-conscious upgrades I often consult with sailors in the market for cruising boats. I suggest monohulls for most of my clients, typically ...

49. Sailing to Down Under with the Devils
(Columnists/Afloat)

...  I’m used to sailing aboard racing or cruising boats in the 35-foot range and chartering yachts well over 40, but not a supermaxi with a canting keel, canard, barrel-sized winches and sails huge enough ...

50. Dufour 45
(Boats and Gear/Perry on Design)

... the focus is on dual-purpose use, i.e. cruising and racing. Come to think of it, that’s not much different than the design approach used in the early 1970s. This is a very standard-looking hull from ...

51. Cruising in style in the US Virgin Islands
(Photo of the Week/Photo of the Week)

Cruising in style in the US Virgin Islands By Walter Cooper About the photographer Buy this photo See other Photos  ...

52. Suddenly Alone
(Feature/Features)

... coastal cruising boats don’t have one. Coastal mariners should also note that dialing *CG on your cell phone no longer summons the Coast Guard. The system just didn’t work. If help is near, shoot off ...

53. December 2009
(Contents by Issue/Table of Contents)

Features Cruising a Frozen Eden Cruising the Antarctic paradise of South Georgia Island brings unique challenges and rewards Ride Along with the SOS Crew SAILING Magazine joins the volunteers of Virgin ...

54. Forgotten in the quest for speed: reverence for seakindliness
(Columnists/Full and By)

... Crealock’s book Vagabonding Under Sail. Later he wrote about sailing in the South Pacific in a book titled Cloud of Islands. I recommend them both as classics of the cruising adventure genre. Born in Westcliff-on-Sea, ...

55. Barracuda 48
(Boats and Gear/Perry on Design)

This is our first review of the work of Barracuda Yacht Design, an eight-man group in Madrid headed by Inigo Toledo. The design submitted is a 48-foot “performance cruising yacht.” I think we should get ...

56. Rogers 82
(Boats and Gear/Perry on Design)

... of 69.94. The second mode is the cruising mode, and in this mode the displacement jumps to 88,160 pounds for a D/L of 93.29. I’m not sure how they accomplish this but it certainly is a dramatic change. ...

57. Bequia
(Boats and Gear/Perry on Design)

... fo’c’sle are both huge and will stow a lot of gear and toys for extended cruising. Maybe it’s more accurate to say the lazarette is long because with that short DWL and high counter there is really not ...

58. Summit 35
(Boats and Gear/Boat Test)

... boat targeted for the IRC circuit and for swift, occasional cruising. Like the King 40, the 35 is designed by Mark Mills. According to Mills, “The Summit 35, retains the key styling and performance characteristics ...

59. Why are longer boats faster?
(How To/Boat Doctor)

... that the performance boats seem to have different hull shapes than cruising boats.  A friend told me all about hull shape and mentioned waterline length.  He explained that a longer waterline makes for ...

60. Posey Yacht
(Web Links / Advertiser Directory)

New 2007 & 2008 Simulators! Racing, Cruising, and Learn to Sail ...

61. Paul Todd
(Contact / Photographers)

... to him and loves cruising with his friends, skateboarding, gliding and spending time in his kitchen cooking. ...

62. David Liscio
(Contact / Photographers)

... An avid sailor, he has skippered bareboat yachts on assignment for Sail, Sailing, Cruising World, Offshore, Soundings, and other nautical magazines, in places such as Belize,the British West Indies, South ...

63. Alison Langley
(Contact / Photographers)

... film at New York University, and photography at the Rhode Island School of Design. In the six years following she sailed around the world, publishing her images and stories in magazines such as Cruising ...