Jeff Bolster

Sailing to Tonga, a couple encounters one of the last slices of South Pacific paradise

Ownership of an old Pennant stoked the cruising appetites and dreams of two teenaged friends

The most important ship restoration project in America at this moment is attracting big crowds.

Nothing says Chesapeake Bay like a skipjack, with its distinctive profile and raked rig.

A circumnavigation is the stuff of dreams, the ultimate sailing challenge. Few pull it off.

As Hurricane Irma stormed toward Tortola with our boat in its crosshairs last year, I mustered every possible shred of hope.

Every once in a while, a cruising family sails into an exquisite moment in the life of a boat and its people.

I fell under the spell of the Norwalk Islands early in life. My first dinghy, first fish, first outboard, first stranding, first (and only) dismasting and first island getaway — a camp that would have made Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn green with envy — all occurred in that enticing little archipelago.