Insider ideas: Totem’s 2020 gift guide
Every year we put a holiday gift guide together, to help pick out something special for the cruisers and cruisers-to-be…
Weather routing for passages
Jamie will be the first to tell you he’s not a weather router. But weather advice has crept into the…
Preparing a boat for haulout
Leaving Puerto Peñasco’s harbor in our wake last December, I really expected it would be years – many years! –…
Managing resources: propane on board
We ran out of propane last night. Inconveniently enough (is it ever convenient?) it happened in the middle of cooking…
Reassurance from Baja’s bounty
Cruisers obsess over food sourcing and long-term storage more than the typical person. Over-provisioning is one of the classic new…
Fast track to cruising
Pandemic closes down the world. The world decides to go cruising! OK, not exactly, but there’s been a very unexpected…
Vessel Restricted in Ability to Maneuver
ColRegs, the popular acronym for that mouthful “International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea,” includes in rule no. 3 the…
Embrace the boring
Totem recently made landfall in Baja after a placid passage of a little over three days: north up the coast…