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Editorial content covers the total sailing experience, featuring articles on coastal and blue-water cruising, trailer-sailing, racing, multihulls and monohulls, daysailing, one-design racing, and much more.

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The Queen City of the Gulf • YES, TEXAS, WE’RE TALKING ABOUT GALVESTON!

Power Cat Pioneer • PASSION, VISION, AND A DOGMATIC CONVICTION ABOUT THE VIRTUES OF THE CATAMARAN, LEX RAAS MIGHT JUST BE THE ULTIMATE CAT GUY.

Doing That Boating Hand Jive • REFRESHING YOUR CREW ON THE UNIVERSAL HAND SIGNS CAN SAVE YOU A LOT OF TROUBLE.

Calling All Citizen Scientists

Seawind 1370 • A REAL-WORLD PERFORMANCE CRUISER, THE SEAWIND 1370 IS PROVING HARD TO RESIST.

Silent 62 • AN ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSCIOUS POWER-CAT BUILDER MAKES WAVES EVEN AT THE SMALLER END OF THEIR RANGE.

Xquisite 60 Solar Sail • A FUTURISTIC, PUSH-BUTTON PASSAGEMAKER, THIS POWERFUL CAT IS DESIGNED FOR ADVENTUROUS SAILORS TARGETING LUXURIOUS OFF-GRID CRUISING.

Aquila 50 Yacht • AQUILA MAKES A BOLD STEP TOWARDS THE FUTURE WITH THEIR 50 YACHT.

Lagoon 43 • WITH FRESH THINKING AND SOME RISK TAKING, LAGOON CREATES A WORTHY SUCCESSOR TO AN IMMENSELY POPULAR MODEL.

The Golden Anniversary • The Hawaiian voyaging canoe Hōkūle‘a celebrates 50 years of voyaging, education, and heart with the people who made it all possible.

A Family Affair • TWO DECADES AFTER THEIR FIRST CIRCUMNAVIGATION, DON AND ANJA RICHARDS ARE CROSSING OCEANS AGAIN—THIS TIME TO HELP THEIR SON KICKSTART HIS OWN CRUISING DREAM.

Three… Two… One… Liftoff • IT’S NOT EVERY DAY THAT A BUILDER AND OWNER TAKE HULL NO. 1 FOR A 1,200-MILE OPEN-WATER CROSSING, BUT THIS SPACESHIP IS HEADED FOR NEW FRONTIERS.

On the Hard • BUILDING THEIR OWN 44-FOOT CATAMARAN FROM THE PLANS UP, MATT AND JESSICA JOHNSON EMBRACE THE CRUISING LIFE FROM A UNIQUE PERSPECTIVE.

Block Island vs Block Island!? • EDITORS-IN-CHIEF DAN HARDING (POWER & MOTORYACHT) AND WENDY MITMAN CLARKE (SAIL) FIND COMMON GROUND WHILE ARGUING OVER THEIR FAVORITE CRUISING DESTINATION.