Today’s challenge is: Pitometer. Do you know what this phrase means and how it originated? Sailing Lingo aims to test your knowledge of the peculiar and sometimes indecipherable language of sailing. We pose a question and see who can answer it most accurately in the comments on the post. The following day we’ll post the [...]

Guests on board Star Flyer enjoyed a presentation by French Polynesian dancers when the ship was in Tahiti.

Here is Part 2 of Larry Haugh’s interview with Vacation Agent magazine. Who’s your typical client? We’ve found that 50 percent of our passengers have been involved in boating at some point in their life. Anybody who owns boats…[or belongs to] any type of sailing club or yacht club, whether they’re power or sail boats, [...]

Larry G. Haugh, Star Clippers’ vice president of sales based in the company’s Miami office, recently sat down with “Vacation Agent” magazine to discuss programs and new itineraries. Here’s what he had to say. Star Clippers has some interesting new itineraries planned for the upcoming year. Tell us about the new Costa Rica program by [...]

We asked, what does “nibbling” mean and where did the term originate? Nibbling, typically  refers to taking small bites out of a tasty treat, but in the sailing world it refers to the pointed shapes of the ends of certain deck planks. According to John G. Rogers’ Origins of Sea Terms these pointed ends are [...]