Every story here is a documented case at sea — what went wrong, the COLREG rule or regulation that governs it, and the one habit or sheet that would have changed the ending. Read one, and the matching PDF is a click away.
A lone skipper, a dead main engine, a failed auxiliary — and a flat radio battery. What you do in the first ten minutes decides everything.
Read the article →A yacht with two radar screens still collided in fog. Why your GPS won't save you — and why COLREG Rule 19 will.
Read the article →117 boats set out in fair weather. A squall took the wind from 15 to 50 knots — and six lives. The anatomy of the storm, and the warning that was there.
Read the article →Two sailors drifted five months across the Pacific with a registered EPIRB they never switched on. The real cost of pushing past your limits.
Read the article →The summer offense almost no boater believes applies to them — and exactly what the Codice della Nautica says about it.
Read the article →Sidelights, sternlight, the tricolor — and what changes the instant you start the engine. Cited to COLREG Rule 25.
Read the article →35 cited checks across lights, day shapes, sound and distress signals — one sheet to keep aboard. Enter your email and we'll send the PDF.