Small American Ships – ACL's Project Blue By Ted Scull American Cruise Lines has just revealed details of a brand-new fleet of go-anywhere small American ships for the U.S. market. Innovators from the Start If there is innovation afloat in the American-flag small ship...
8 Rough Cruising Regions By Ted Scull. 🎧Would you rather listen to this article about the roughest cruising regions? Below Ted shares his rough sailing stories and tips. (15.35 mins) Now let’s begin with the good news. Advance weather forecasts give...
Exploring the Waterways of Ontario aboard Kawartha Voyageur — A Look Back to a 1997 Cruise By Theodore W. Scull This article is a look back at Ted's Kawartha Voyageur cruise in 1997, in a story he wrote for the now sadly defunct "Cruise Travel" magazine. Good to...
American Queen Voyages 🎧 Listen to Ted’s audio tour of the American Queen: Update Feb 24, 2024: The three riverboats of American Queen Voyages, including the American Queen, ceased operations earlier this week as will the company's pair of coastal ships. The...
The Debut of The American Queen By Ted Scull. 🎧 Listen to Ted's audio tour of the American Queen: Update Feb 24, 2024: The three riverboats of American Queen Voyages, including the American Queen, ceased operations earlier this week as will the company's pair...
New England Islands Cruise: Expert Review By Ted Scull. For an extended Memorial Day Weekend, my wife and I chose an early season coastal New England Islands itinerary sailing out of Providence, Rhode Island. We arrived from New York via Amtrak’s scenic Shore Line...
Maine Coast Cruise By Ted Scull For a summer trip, my wife and I hunted for a cruise that would be a complete change of pace, one well removed from mega ships and milling crowds. After a thorough search using brochures that came in the mail and website links, we chose...
The Chesapeake Bay By Theodore W. Scull In the eastern United States, the Chesapeake Bay, fringed by the states of Maryland and Virginia, forms the country’s largest estuary measuring 200 north-south miles. Its present brackish expanse, only about 3000 years old,...
Hurtigruten Sells 1964-built Lofoten By Ted Scull Aficionados, do not despair! With almost any ship, aged 56, one would expect the next destination would be the last — a scrapyard where ships die. Nothing doing for this workhorse, having held down a proud place in a...
Cruising Alaska on a Small Ship By Ted Scull & Heidi Sarna Alaska, America’s largest state, is 2.5 times the land area of Texas and 430 times the size of Rhode Island, and unlike all the other states, except Hawaii, its mass is not contiguous to the Lower 48. For...
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7 Reasons To UnCruise in Alaska By Heidi Sarna I recently came back from a week in Alaska with UnCruise and it was an invigorating and memorable experience that I highly recommend for anyone who enjoys exploring the great outdoors in remote places with only the...
French Country Waterways' Adrienne By Rick Sylvain Maps say we are in the heart of France, the confluence where the winding Saone River meets the Canal du Centre. But to passengers aboard the luxury hotel barge Adrienne, we are at the intersection of blissful and...
Hillwood Museum and Sea Cloud Cruises Partner By Anne Kalosh 1931's Sea Cloud, the largest private yacht in its day — now sailing for Sea Cloud Cruises — is getting its own exhibition at Hillwood, the heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post's former estate in Washington...
Adventure Canada Arctic Cruise By Judi Cohen True to its name, Adventure Canada delivered adventure from the moment we departed Toronto on a charter flight to Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, throughout our 10-day expedition, until our last zodiac transfer in Qausuittuq...
Larry Pimentel Exits the Four Seasons Yachts Project By Anne Kalosh The high-profile senior cruise executive Larry Pimentel, who has been the face of Four Seasons Yachts, left the project. Marc-Henry Cruise Holdings, joint owner and operator of Four Seasons Yachts,...
5 Reasons To Choose A Lindblad Expeditions Arctic Cruise By John Roberts Lindblad Expeditions is renowned for launching modern expedition cruising, offering immersive and eco-conscious voyages to the masses. The company’s evolution from the first trips to Antarctica...
Riverside Ravel Cruise Review By Peter Knego Among the Quirky cruising highlights of 2023 was the return of two of the former Crystal Cruises river vessels under the management of new luxury river line, Riverside Cruises. In the spring, they brought the one-off,...
Flying to Antarctica By Anne Klaosh Two venerable Antarctica cruise operators continue to evolve with Lindblad Expeditions adding a fly-cruise option that makes for a shorter trip and Antartica21 opening a private club for its travelers in Punta Arenas, Chile, an...
Argyll Cruising In Scotland by Robin McKelvie “The Firth of Clyde is Scotland’s seriously underrated secret cruising playground,” smiles Ted Creek, the new owner and skipper of Argyll Cruising’s Splendour, as we ease by the brooding hulk of Holy Isle accompanied by...
Pearl Mist Great Lakes Cruise Review By Cele and Lynn Seldon @SeldonInk Living in South Carolina’s Lowcountry is generally idyllic, except for about eight weeks in the summer when the heat and humidity have many residents hightailing it north to cooler climes. Such...
Upper Mekong River Cruise By Heidi Sarna Whenever my husband and I listen to Creedence Clearwater Revival’s beautifully melancholic song “Have You Ever Seen The Rain,” we’re transported back to that magical evening on the sandy banks of the Upper Mekong River in Laos,...
