News for and about cruising sailors, their regional clubs and club directory, the 100-day SpinSheet Century Club challenge, and favorite sailing destinations on the Chesapeake Bay.


Salty Dawg Rally sailors at Hog Heaven
Rallies provide opportunities for cruisers to enjoy their passages with comfort, safety, and company. By Tracy Leonard.
Jack and Erewhon in Annapolis. Photo by Al Schreitmueller
Jack was an authentic and honest writer and an ironman of a sailor, remembers David Gendell
Wall walking--it happens. Don't judge. Photo by Dan Phelps
Are you a Permaboard? Or a Pier Princess? Hopefully you're not a Landlubber... they're the worst. By Cindy Wallach.
Looking south from the Big Game Club to the entrance to Bimini Harbor.
"I’d just graduated from college and my roommate Michael and I had chartered a Pearson 30 for the trip. We’d found three attractive student teachers on spring break to join us, and we...
"The top priority of walking docks and being on boats in the winter is to never, ever, ever fall in the water." By Tracy Leonard
Fall is Goodbye Season, and I stink at goodbyes. I am the worst person to be writing about this because I am the perfect model of what not to do. I go completely overboard wanting to shower the departing crew with attention and wine and dinners and though
"Sailors sail around, they meet other sailors, become fast and deep friends, and then sail away. Maybe forever. The end. So why do we put ourselves through this?" By Cindy Wallach.
Which is the better cruising destination for sailors? One cruising couple takes a closer look. By Mike Camarata.
The Jones Family: Ken, Kaylee, and Danielle.
"In our travels, we've encountered several couples who do better than others at getting past these tense moments." By Scott Neuman.
2015 Rolex competitor Ichiban sails down the Tasmanian Coast past a spectacular feature called the Organ Pipes. Photo by Stefano Gattini
Traveling across the world to find a place that feels just like home. By Craig Ligibel.

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