What’s better for cruising: Mexico or the Caribbean?
Hopeful cruisers sometimes wonder where to start their adventures afloat. Pacific side of Mexico or the…
Blooper Reel: Jamie’s take on summer in the Sea of Cortez
Jamie wrote the lines below while we baked in the Sea of Cortez summertime heat while…
Insider ideas: Totem’s 2020 gift guide
Every year we put a holiday gift guide together, to help pick out something special for…
Bringing holiday spirit cruising
If you’re cruising, you must be flexible. The weather doesn’t adapt to your plans. Familiar products…
Reassurance from Baja’s bounty
Cruisers obsess over food sourcing and long-term storage more than the typical person. Over-provisioning is one…
Fast track to cruising
Pandemic closes down the world. The world decides to go cruising! OK, not exactly, but there’s…
Offshore crewing and inclusion
The catch-22 of getting offshore experience: being required to have prior offshore experience in order to…
Vessel Restricted in Ability to Maneuver
ColRegs, the popular acronym for that mouthful “International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea,” includes in…
Embrace the boring
Totem recently made landfall in Baja after a placid passage of a little over three days:…