Features

A soulful boat festival

The Bainbridge Island Wooden Boat Festival celebrates the Northwest's maritime heritage

Thrills and spills

Aussie 18 sailing offers high-octane action that gets the spectators as excited as the sailors

56 Raising sailors the island way

The U.S. Virgin Islands sailing community has made teaching and inspiring young sailors a priority

Boats & Gear

Technique

Good seamanship dictates that a chartplotter is no substitute for paper charts

Gear

The right gear makes shorthanded sailing easierand safer

Perry on Design

Topaz Argo, Deltania 26 E, eZ/21

Boat Doctor

The best tool to wax a hull

Boat Test

Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 469

Departments

For Openers

Full and By

Most sailors obey an unwritten law of the sea for boatsin peril

Letters

On the Wind

Sailors can bring back beach launching by saving access to the water

Splashes

Remembering Magnus Olsson and SCAMP goes viral

Nautical Library

Sailing stories from Down Under and photographs that make sailing come alive

Sailors Among Us

With his children as crew, a Thistle owner takes his boat on a camping adventure off the Georgia coast

Launchings

New boat: Farr Bavaria One

The Wharf

Brokerage, charters and other sailing-related products and services