SailTime Members from around the world converged on the British Virgin Islands last week for our annual Novice to Captain Graduation Flotilla. Members from the UK and North America chartered 12 boats and departed from Roadtown, Tortola to cruise what is, quite simply, the Disneyland of sailing. I can’t say enough good things about this [...]

SailTime Channel Island’s Hunter 326 “Imagine” Member, Randy Bush, shares new sailing terms, one of his regular sailing crew, Beverly, uses to find her way around the boat:
BARNACLE:  The compass housing on a boat.   ex: “Where did you put the barnacle cover?” 
LARIAT:  A storage compartment in the cockpit of a sailboat.  ex:  “I think the [...]