I awoke from a dream at 2am this morning. It wasn’t the type of startling dream where you are falling or someone is chasing you; it was worse. I dreamt that I was standing on a dock at a marina admiring a small sailboat that a couple of friends just bought. When all of a sudden a massive cruising sailboat...

I am a recovering boat addict. While many of you may laugh when you hear that, boat addiction is a serious condition. If left untreated, boat addiction can have the following consequences: [check_list] Lose your money (boat maintenance is expensive) Lose your friends and family (your crew does not like...

It was time to think outside the box. I had been focusing too much on traveling by boat and had finally come to the conclusion that by traveling by boat, you become a slave to that boat. Everything in your life revolves around maintaining the boat. The main focus of our trip should be on the experience...

Even though we were not up to crossing oceans on a sailboat, the cruising life was still appealing. We came up with an alternate plan that sounded very reasonable. We would spend a year or two sailing around the Caribbean. With this approach, we would not have to buy a sailboat that was capable of offshore...

My favorite television show when I was a kid was Gilligan’s Island. I thought the castaways were the luckiest people in the world to live in such a beautiful place. Ever since then, I had dreamed of sailing off across the horizon and making landfall at a tropical island paradise. When I finally had...