Nav Problem
From 1700 to 1834, the British East India Company held a monopoly in the colonization of Asia, competing only with the Dutch East India Company. It was founded in 1600 [...]
Communications
The evolution of satellite data and voice communications for cruising sailors is finally approaching the point where soon we will all be talking, sending email and searching the internet from [...]
In the marina it’s relatively simple to manage communications – a cell phone with a subscriber identification module (SIM) card from the local phone company, and perhaps WiFi supplied by [...]
Ocean Voyaging
Our Icelandic Temporary Import Permit for the boat was set to expire, which meant either paying stiff import fees for the boat or departing Iceland. As my oldest son was [...]
Short Tacks
The excitement of being new sailboat owners was wearing off quickly. My wife and I had been aboard our new-to-us 2000 Beneteau Oceanis 381sailboat for only a few hours when [...]
Short Tacks
In 2016 my wife and I bought a 34-foot Cabo Rico, upgrading from the 27-foot Albin Vega we’d owned for 16 years. While we certainly appreciated the increase in speed, [...]
Power Voyaging
Spinning up a solution to rolling
Rolling underway? Ugh! It’s the bane of power boating. It turns some folks green. Over the years, various methods of dampening this sickening side-to-side motion have been developed —paravanes, stabilizer [...]
Marine Technology
Using electronic charting tools
Modern electronic charting on multifunction displays is a powerful tool for the voyager — they can know position and other navigational info just by glancing at a screen. With position [...]
Boat Focus
The prospect of racing a boat 2,000 miles from California to Hawaii can take an owner’s list of desired boat upgrades and make it considerably longer. That was the case [...]
Chatter
In May 2022 the Royal Western Yacht Club in the UK announced a new ocean racing competition, the Round Iceland Race, which is set to start from Plymouth in the [...]
Chatter
Lisa Blair completes Antarctic circumnavigation
Australian sailor Lisa Blair crossed her outbound track on May 19, 2022, to complete a solo unassisted non-stop circumnavigation of Antarctica, going into the history books for sailing it all [...]
Chatter
The modern way to book a marina
When cruising, my husband Tom and I usually spend nights at anchor, with only an occasional sojourn at a marina slip. This past summer we sailed our Sabre 30 Ora [...]
The first start for the 2022 Pacific Cup Race (Ocean Navigator is a race co-sponsor) is set for July 4th and the activity is picking up in anticipation of the [...]