Although we do not name every inanimate object that we own, the tradition of giving a boat a name is a long standing one that goes back to ancient times. Many people believe that boats…
Continue Reading
In October of last year we decided to haul our boat out of the water, thinking we would be back to sailing a few months later. Well, it’s been more than a year and we…
Continue Reading
As soon as you hear cruising you tend to think of big yachts, cocktails, white sand beaches and assume it must be expensive. When we got out cruising we quickly realised that this was true…
Continue Reading
The Dominican Republic (D.R.) was a place that we were indifferent to visiting by sailboat. Let’s say it was far down the “let’s go there list”. We heard and spoke with many other cruisers who…
Continue Reading
Does changing your own fuel filters sound like a little too much to handle? This guide will walk you through replacing fuel filters and bleeding the fuel system of air on a diesel engine. Your…
Continue Reading
As Canadians who have lived aboard our sailboat in Toronto for both a winter in -40 degrees Celsius and summer in the mid 30s, living conditions on anchor in the Carribean is certainly an adjustment…
Continue Reading
There are many places in this world that are highly overrated. Princess Louisa Inlet is not one of them. It is one of those places that is, almost impossibly, even more beautiful than people say…
Continue Reading
It seems that when things are going to go wrong, they always do so in the middle of an already stressful situation. We had just spent two months in the Broughton Archipelago and were an…
Continue Reading
If you are like many of us cruising in a saltwater environment who visit remote areas with no or limited fresh water and don’t have a watermaker, keep reading. Water is gold when sailing. When…
Continue Reading
If you live anywhere near the east coast of North America whether it’s Halifax to Florida and own a sailboat capable of ocean cruising, then you really need to make a trip to the Bahamas…
Continue Reading
JOIN
MEMBERS
C-TOW APP
CAREERS