General boating and cruising topics

Area to find and share information about emergent problems, dangerous conditions, hurricanes, lost boats, missing people and natural disasters that affect the sailing community.

Stay in touch with news and events that pertain to blue water cruising.

Brain teasers, and brain storming. This is the place if you want to challenge your skills as a cruiser, be it from a mechanical, seamanship, or practical knowledge point of view.

Stories on things that went wrong while cruising. Such tales can sometimes be amusing, but more importantly, the rest of us can learn from them.

Boating related money matters. Insurance, financing, purchasing and buyers guidelines

Cruising related useful info. Reference materials, books and websites (no commercial posting allowed).

Float your tall tales, fish stories and general topics related to cruising that don’t fit elsewhere. Political comments, discussions of general government policy, weaponry, religious and social issues are considered jetsam and should be offloaded to other social media sites; they are off-limits in this forum.