For many families considering big boat sailing as a pastime, hobby or lifestyle, sailboat ownership is likely to be unaffordable and these days, definately impractical. Renting a sail boat can be hit or miss. I have found the majority of available rental boats to be in less than great shape and availability itself can be [...]

Since 2004, there has been a clear cut advantage to sailboat ownership emerging on the waters of North America and the UK in particular. Fractional Sailing is a good idea, period. But in tough economic times, when you need to make every buck work for you, it could be the difference between sailing and not [...]

Some morning in the not-too-distant future you will wake up and log on to check out what the wind is doing at the Western reaches of the Santa Barbara Channel and you will have a hard time knowing. Buoy #’s 46023 off Point Arguello and 46054 in the middle of the Western Channel itself are [...]