Sailboat Donation

It seems all the olympic class sailors start really early or are born into sailor families. I just moved to a city where I can learn sailing, and I’m in love with sailing already, wish I had started earlier. To all the great sailors out there, is it ever possible for a late starter to [...]

I’m looking for some non-fiction sailing books about cruising on a sailboat. Please remember non-fiction means they are true and not made up. Sail, sailboat, cruising, travel.

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The boat’s 30ft LWL 25ft with 4000kg displacement. Maximum prop size is 13 in. Hull speed is about 7kts maximum. One engineer says I need to replace the old Watermota 33hp petrol engine with a minimum 28hp diesel. The other avers that a 16hp diesel will be right. Quite a gap in size and price! [...]

Last year when a new chief editor took over at Sailing World he started a new program to try to generate some letter to the editor correspondenceby offering a “Letter of the month” contest. Last spring a letter that I wrote was picked for letter of the month and was given a special box [...]

I’m planning a sailing trip next year for about 12 people and I’m looking for ideas. We’d like something warm, nice beaches and maybe some outdoor adventure on shore. The trip is probably a week long. As a point of reference, this group sailed a week in BVI last time and totally [...]