News Archive

Book of the Week: 'Shooting Stars and Flying Fish' By Des Ryan, 9:08 AM Thu 5 May 2011
When Nancy Knudsen and her architect husband Ted Nobbs decide to escape their high-pressure corporate lives and follow a dream of sailing around the world together, little do they guess where their journey will lead them and the strange events which are to turn their lives upside-down. ...[more]

'Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas By Zeke Barlow, VCStar/Sail-World Cruising, , 5:39 PM Sat 23 Apr 2011
While 15-year-old Dutch sailor Laura Dekker is still amble-sailing her way around the world, 16-year-old American sailor Abby Sunderland, who had to be rescued from the South Indian Ocean in her non-stop attempt has written a book about her attempt at the 'youngest' record. Just released, it's called 'Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas.' ...[more]

Book of the Week: Batavia, gripping, horrifying, the best read! By Rob Tickner/Sail-World Cruising, 10:14 AM Tue 5 Apr 2011
The story of the Batavia must be one of the most fascinating, if horrifying sailing shipwreck stories of all time. It combines a tale of sea-faring adventure, mutiny, love, lust, criminality, a reign of terror, murders most foul, sexual slavery, natural nobility, survival, retribution, rescue, first contact with native peoples with the unlikely tale of the birth of the world's first corporation ...[more]

2011-2012 Cruising Guide to the Virgin Islands - out now By Sail-World Cruising, , 12:42 PM Mon 28 Mar 2011
2011-2012 Cruising Guide to the Virgin Islands by Nancy and Simon Scott, the fifteenth edition of this popular cruising guide, is out now. It has been completely re-designed and updated in its style, with more Virgin Island photography and full color detailed anchorage charts. ...[more]

Sailing in my Sarong By Sail-World Cruising round-up, 11:45 AM Mon 28 Mar 2011
Linda and Bill Anderson are a sailing couple who are living proof that it’s never too late to fulfill your dream. After 30 years of fantasising about sailing around the world, they finally set sail on an action packed voyage that would take two years to complete and cover Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Singapore, Brazil, Grenada, Colombia, Samoa, Fiji and Vanuatu. They crossed the equator four times ...[more]

Book of the Week: 'Just Sea and Sky' by Ben Pester By Rob Tickner, 4:34 PM Fri 4 Feb 2011
Today setting out to sail to the other side of the world without GPS, electronics, radio or an EPIRB would be considered downright irresponsible. This charming just-published account of the voyage of two men in a small boat half way round the world from Plymouth to New Zealand in 1955 is a rare insight into a time, not long ago, when sailors had none of the mod cons that we take for granted today. ...[more]

New Book of the Week: The Boy Behind the Gate By Nancy Knudsen, 7:44 AM Sat 29 Jan 2011
We first came into contact with Larry and Ken when we were anchored in Mykonos and noticed what good sailors they were arriving into the bay on their yacht Julia - but we didn't meet. Half a world away we ran into them again, in Bonaire, and enjoyed sailing and playing together until the Pacific. I just knew his book would be a good one, because Larry never does anything by halves... ...[more]

Book of the Week: 'Boatnuts loose in the Caribbean' By Lee Mylchreest, , 11:28 AM Sun 23 Jan 2011
Do you love reading other people's sailing stories? Here's another, 'Boatnuts loose in the Caribbean', a circumnavigation of the Caribbean by Bob and Norma Morris in their 1992 Island Packet 44, called Happy Ours. Their circumnavigation of the Caribbean took eight happy years, so as you can tell, they weren't racing! You can buy it online. ...[more]

The amazing history of the world's oldest active sailing ship By Des Ryan, , 6:54 AM Sun 16 Jan 2011
If you believe the Guinness Book of Records, the full-rigged iron windjammer Star of India is the oldest active sailing ship in the world. She was built in 1863, making her an amazing 148 years old, and still sailing! Her home these days is the San Diego Maritime Museum in California, USA, but that's not to imply that she's moribund. ...[more]

Dr Rip's Essential Beach Book By Rob Tickner, 6:30 AM Sat 8 Jan 2011
When sailors go cruising in idyllic circumstances we often dinghy to a beach to start exploring or provisioning. We also swim from those beaches, let our kids play on them and go trailing along the edge of the water. But just how much do we understand about the beach and its potential hazards? Types of waves and how they break, tides, currents, dangerous rips and why some beaches are safer? ...[more]

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