With the war underway in the Middle East and the likely unfavorable conditions for a Red Sea transit this spring, the migrating cruising fleet in Asia has started to alter plans. Some, as we reported ...

Bethany Smith, 18, is thought to have died in the hospital from multiple injuries after the accident on board luxury 180 foot schooner Germania Nova, which was berthed ...

On Tuesday of this week, the U.S. Pentagon announced that a U.S. submarine has sunk a Iranian destroyer in the Indian Ocean ...

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When Groupe Beneteau decided to create the all-new First 60, which is the largest boat in the First line, they turned to Italian designers Biscontini Yacht Design with Lorenzo Argento handling the ...

Here’s a story that conjured some old memories and brought a smile to my face. Last month, 158 giant Galapagos tortoises were reintroduced to the island of Floreana in the southern region of the ...

It would be hard to find a serious cruising person who, at one time or another, has not turned to ActiveCaptain for help. I know I have, and ...

What shoreline knows not our maps? Most of them, it turns out. While satellites map much of the globe on a daily basis, there are parts of the ...

This looks like a repeat of the fable about killing the goose that laid the golden egg. Last July 1, the Bahamas Tourism Board enacted significant increases to all of the fees charged to visiting ...