Sailing has a reputation for being difficult and expensive. It is neither. You can learn to guide a sailboat, slipping through the water powered by nothing but the wind and your skill. You can afford to own your own sailboat. You can take it out for a sunset barbecue after work a week-long cruise through…
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“How do I get experience sailing offshore?” Many Sail Mentor readers are planning to do ambitious things in their sailboats, including crossing Oceans (or at least Seas). Jumping off into the great blue yonder at the helm of your own boat is a romantic and achievable dream, but few people want this to be their…
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When they start out, people are usually intimidated by the process of learning to sail. It all seems so complicated. There are all of these ropes all over the place (their called lines, actually), and even the physics of how a boat can sail upwind seems crazy hard to understand. And don’t even get started…
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I’m excited to present Sail Mentor’s first guest submission. I reached out to Renée on Cruisers Forum after she shared how excited she was about her first sailing course. I saw that she was a good writer, and I thought the Sail Mentor community would enjoy hearing about her first sailing course from her perspective….
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The summer sailing season is over for those of us far enough up in the Northern Hemisphere to get a winter. People are busy putting their boats to bed for the winter and making winter maintenance and upgrade lists. But Wait! It Doesn’t Need to be the End of the Sailing Season! Unless you live…
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A few weeks ago, I received an email from Tim, a subscriber who has a common fear: Another big fear of mine is mechanics. The internal combustion engine and I have never been friends…and there are so many other mechanical systems on sailboats. I am freaked out that I won’t be able to handle that….
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