In What It’s Like, people tell us, well, what it’s like to have experiences many of us have not even imagined. In this entry, we spoke to amateur mariner Sam Holmes, 35, who crosses oceans—by ...

She set sail in 1952 not to set a record or make a point about women and their abilities. Rather, her motivation was deeply personal. By Erica Westly This article is part of Overlooked, a series of ...

Joshua Slocum, an indefatigable trader, entrepreneur and sailor, born in 1844 on a farm in Nova Scotia, had a patchy record as a ship’s captain. Mutinies had a way of breaking out among his crews—he ...

Luke Hartley tells PEOPLE he expects to spend as many as five years sailing sailing_songbird/TikTok Ask Luke Hartley where he's headed and he's likely to get at least a little philosophical. "Part of ...

Ann Davison was nobody’s idea of a successful solo transoceanic sailor. In 1949 she set out from England with her husband in an old boat to cruise the world, one step ahead of their creditors. They ...

On command, a group of teenagers strides forward and grasps the ropes of the main mast on the 70-foot schooner Spirit of Oysterhaven. “Okay, let’s hustle,” shouts Shauna Gillan, first mate and ...

Few nonfiction books get a reader’s adrenaline pumping quite like Sophie Elmhirst’s “A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck.” As I plunged headfirst into this immersive tale ...

Merritt Sellers and her father plan to sail together from Port Huron to Mackinac Island, through crashing waves and at least one night, after the starting gun Saturday. That means Merritt, at age 14, ...