April 2020

Most cruisers will tell you that they started with a one- or two-year plan, which evolved into more ocean miles, more countries visited, more money, and more years of their lives.

Fifty years ago, in 1970, the Islander 36 was conceived as a remarkable racer/ cruiser with a state-of-the-art interior, good looks and great performance.

Every two years the opportunity to race a pair of extraordinary events in Mexico comes along.

Most people seem to be hard-wired to pursue personal goals and ambitions of one sort or another. Among sailors, those goals often include travel to exotic, unspoiled places.

At the end of December, as the decade drew to its unofficial close, 10 youth and two adult-leaders from the San Francisco Sea Scouts boarded Call of the Sea's schooner Seaward to embark on a five-day offshore voyage.

There's never any doubt when the keel of a boat under sail finds the mud.