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‘A Floating Piece of History’: How the Gucci Family Restored This 214-Foot Sailing Yacht

Allegra Gucci’s first palpable memory was aboard her family’s sailboat, the 214-foot Creole. As she recalls growing up, the world’s largest wooden sailing yacht formed a playful cocoon for water fights, running along hundreds of feet of teak decks, swallow dives into the ocean, and, at peak performance, adrenaline rushes as the boat thundered at full sail in the Mediterranean.

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Seven Seas Cruising Association CPR Training!

The Seven Seas Cruising Association (SSCA) is offering cruisers an opportunity to gain critical, potentially life-saving skills with a hands-on CPR for Cruisers Training Course on Friday, October 2, 2026, at the Maryland Yacht Club in Pasadena, Maryland. The course will be presented...

Sailors Never Learn

Across the bay I saw a boater watching me and chuckling. I knew that look. It was the same look I had given hundreds of other boaters over the years—the look that says, What the hell is this idiot...

Book Review: Starboard Attitude

For the past 15 years, Bob Bitchin has been one of the most recognizable voices in the cruising community. Through Latitudes & Attitudes and Living Aboard, he has spent years telling sailors what they already suspected: that there is...

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