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World Sailing Travel Guide

• World Overview
• World Hotels
• World Attractions
• World Feature Articles
• World Adventure Trips
• World Vacation Rentals

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• World Travel
• Active and Adventure Guide
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• Beach Guide
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  • Sailing
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• Family Guide
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• Parks and Outdoors Guide
  • Camping
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  • Horses and Riding
  • Nature
  • Road and Rail Journeys

Top Sailing Destinations In World

• Martha's Vineyard, MA
  (157 mi.)
• Nantucket, MA
  (91 mi.)
• Monterey, CA
  (95 mi.)
• St. John, VI
  (9.8 mi.)
• Hilton Head Island, SC
  (22 mi.)
• British Virgin Islands
  (7.1 mi.)
• Nevis, KN
  (161 mi.)
• Antigua, AG
  (103 mi.)
• San Diego, CA
  (112 mi.)
• San Francisco, CA
  (9.9 mi.)

Travel Guides In World

• Grand Canyon, AZ (84 mi.)
  • Active and Adventure Guide
  • Parks and Outdoors Guide
  • Family Guide
• Yellowstone National Park, WY (31 mi.)
  • Family Guide
  • Parks and Outdoors Guide
  • Active and Adventure Guide
• Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN (92 mi.)
  • Family Guide
  • Active and Adventure Guide
  • Parks and Outdoors Guide
• Kaibab National Forest, AZ (69 mi.)
  • Active and Adventure Guide
  • Parks and Outdoors Guide
• Bonaire, AN (42 mi.)
  • Family Guide
  • Beach Guide
• Martha's Vineyard, MA (157 mi.)
  • Active and Adventure Guide
  • Beach Guide
  • Family Guide
• Nantucket, MA (91 mi.)
  • Family Guide
  • Active and Adventure Guide
  • Beach Guide
• Barbados (151 mi.)
  • Family Guide
  • Beach Guide
• Providenciales, TC (78 mi.)
  • Family Guide
  • Beach Guide
• Berkshires, MA (119 mi.)
  • Family Guide
  • Active and Adventure Guide

World Sailing Regions

• Caribbean
• Central America
• North America

Beach Travel Destinations

• United States
  • Mid-Atlantic
  • Mountain West
  • Northeast
  • Pacific Coast
  • Southeast
• Caribbean
  • Anguilla
  • Antigua and Barbuda
  • Aruba
  • Bahamas
  • Barbados
  • British Virgin Islands
  • Cayman Islands
  • Dominica
  • Dominican Republic
  • Grenada
  • Jamaica
  • Netherlands Antilles
  • Puerto Rico
  • St. Kitts and Nevis
  • St. Vincent and the Grenadines
  • Turks and Caicos
  • U.S. Virgin Islands
• Central America
  • Belize
  • Costa Rica
  • Honduras
  • Nicaragua
  • Panama
• Mexico
  • Baja
  • Central Mexico
  • Gulf Coast
  • Northern Mexico
  • Southern Mexico
  • Yucatán

Sailing the waters off Ambergris Caye (Tony Rath/courtesy Belize Tourism Board)

Feature Articles

• The Bareboat Necessities
  outside
  Get schooled to captain your own vessel, then take it to the open seas
• Cycladian Rhythm
  outside
  In search of a 21st-century odyssey, Rolf Potts braves seasickness, blissful languor, and a bevy of bikini-clad sirens on a sailing flotilla in the Greek isles
• Chasing Spirits
  outside
  Fill your jib—and your tall glasses—at Antigua Sailing Week, the Caribbean's biggest regatta
• Blown Away
  outside
  Wind, waves, and siestas—just a few of the reasons to discover Tarifa, Spain
• Cross the Atlantic
  outside
  
• Acadia National Park
  outside
  Set Sail on Maine's Rocky Coast
• Fresh Tracks
  outside
  
• Big Blue Freedom
  outside
  The boundless joys of South Seas sailing
• The Tropics Next Door
  outside
  The Ins and Outboards of the Exumas
• Into the Screaming 50s
  outside
  Something happens in the high latitudes around Cape Horn. Eighty-knot williwaws blast down from the surrounding peaks. Thiry-foot waves rear up. Ships are tossed around like ice cubes in a blender. Why embark on a wind-powered expedition in these waters? For one sailor, it's a pilgrimage to the place where his great-grandfather came to grief in 1875—and a chance to comfront the raw power of the sea.

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