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A $2 billion monopoly controls nearly every major boat listing site—and their business model relies on keeping you in the dark. James Evenson breaks down how actual sold-price data is hidden behind a broker paywall, why the system is rigged against buyers, and what you can do to take this space back.
Two passages to the loneliest inhabited island on earth, and the same lesson learned twice. On the first trip the autopilot exploded 350 miles offshore, and James steered eighteen hundred miles to Easter Island on two bungee cords and sail trim. On the second, an El Niño year threw three back-to-back storms the size of Chile across the route and forced a fifteen-hundred-mile detour to the Marquesas.
A Beneteau First 47.7 delivery goes wrong in a gale: floorboards floating, pump cycling every 15 seconds, batteries dead. The cause — adhesive grid separation between hull and liner — is the same failure mode that sank the Cheeki Rafiki with four crew aboard. Essential reading for anyone buying or delivering a production offshore boat.
How to build real offshore skills through professional berths instead of expensive margarita charters. James Evenson reviews five world-class offshore programs — John Kretschmer, 59° North, Morse Alpha, Sail Libra, and Koru Expeditions — plus the Three Rules and the Partner Test for anyone serious about ocean passagemaking.
Hurricane survival through the lens of energy physics, not tactics. Why mangroves beat marinas, how storm surge actually works at the molecular level, and why the decision that saves your boat happens days before landfall — not at the dock. Includes the Boot Key Harbor and Vuda Marina case studies.
Sail-World covers how James Evenson integrates PredictWind into offshore passage planning and real-world decision-making aboard SV Zingaro — the weather routing tools and workflow that underpin 85,050 miles of offshore sailing.
How small, individually manageable failures stack into catastrophic offshore incidents. James Evenson breaks down the chain-reaction nature of offshore emergencies and the command mindset needed to interrupt the sequence before it becomes unrecoverable.
Loose Cannon's Peter Swanson interviews James Evenson on why he wrote Be The Captain, how it compares to Chapman's, and what bluewater sailors actually need to know that most sailing books won't tell them. The Q&A that launched the book.
A published excerpt from Be The Captain on sea anchor deployment — the practical, field-tested guidance on how to actually use one correctly when conditions get serious offshore. First, have one. Second, deploy it correctly.
James Evenson on 23 years of liveaboard life and the disorienting transition to land — from sailing to the Forbidden Island of Mai'ao to raising a daughter in a marina, and the moment the math on offshore family life stopped working.
SAIL Magazine's account of the night James Evenson's catamaran was ripped apart by tripled-up waves 170 miles south of Hawaii — going overboard in a gale to lash the hull together, and being rescued by the Coast Guard cutter Oliver Berry after three hours of hand-bailing in the dark.
Latitudes & Attitudes profiles SV Zingaro across years of bluewater cruising — Easter Island, Pitcairn, the Forbidden Island of Mai'ao, and 5,080 miles from Polynesia to Panama. What genuine offshore cruising looks like without the Instagram filter.
Spectra Watermakers features James Evenson and SV Zingaro as a real-world example of extended offshore independence — how reliable watermaking enables true passagemaking freedom when you're weeks from the nearest marina.