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Here we share the latest small-ship cruise news and first-person cruise reviews and round-ups from our team of globetrotting writers. If you've got a penchant for small-scale travel aboard boats, yachts, tall ships and mini cruisers, then enjoy the ride through our sea of stories about small-ship cruising.

UnCruise Alaska — Review of Their Wild & Woolly Cruise Aboard Wilderness Legacy (2026)

UnCruise Alaska — Review of Their Wild & Woolly Cruise Aboard Wilderness Legacy (2026)

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Wilderness Legacy Cruise Ship Review By Peter Knego (Photo Above: The handsome Wilderness Legacy,...

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Bella Desgagnés Cargo Passenger Cruise Review (2026) — Exploring the Gulf of St. Lawrence

Bella Desgagnés Cargo Passenger Cruise Review (2026) — Exploring the Gulf of St. Lawrence

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Bella Desgagnés Cargo Passenger Cruise By Aimée Laberge Natashquan, Harrington Harbour,...

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WINDSTAR Cruises

WINDSTAR Cruises

Windstar Cruises. This classy fleet of six combines Windstar Cruises’ three original sailing yachts, Wind Star, Wind Spirit and Wind Surf, groundbreaking at the time for their large size and computer-controlled sails, with Seabourn’s former trio of small cruise ships,...

LE BOAT Self-Hire Yachts

LE BOAT Self-Hire Yachts

Le Boat LeBoat offers self-drive boats along the Rideau Canal in Ontario (Canada) as well as in many parts of Europe.  European waterway cruises have developed a huge following in the last decade, and what most likely springs to mind are the long, narrow, low-slung...

UNCRUISE Adventures in Alaska & More

UNCRUISE Adventures in Alaska & More

UnCruise Adventures Seattle-based UnCruise Adventures operates a fleet of nine expedition vessels accommodating from between 22 to 86 passengers, mainly those seeking adventure cruises in North America’s coastal, island and inland waters from Alaska south to Mexico’s...

MARINE Link Tours

MARINE Link Tours

Marine Link Tours  Marine Link Tours - Check the website calendar and be sure to check the line’s detailed Sailing Protocol. It is worth reading even if you are not planning to sail! Capacity is 12 in outside double cabins, five with two single beds and one with an...

2021's New Small Oceangoing Cruise Ships

2021's New Small Oceangoing Cruise Ships

A Guide To 2021's New Small Oceangoing Cruise Ships By Anne Kalosh. For small-ship fans, 2021 will be a veritable moving feast — a whopping 16 new oceangoing vessels are Quirky-sized (300 passengers, max). We can't remember a year when there was such a cornucopia....

ADVENTURE Canada

ADVENTURE Canada

Adventure Canada Founded in 1987 and based near Toronto, Adventure Canada’s family line of ownership continues with the second generation expanding the firm’s reaches in Arctic Canada, its more temperate regions and eastward to Greenland, Iceland, Ireland and...

HEBRIDES Cruises

HEBRIDES Cruises

Hebrides Cruises Hebrides Cruises is a small family-operated line that currently operates two vessels taking just 8 to 10 passengers on cruises to Scotland’s Western Isles, lochs and the Caledonian Canal that stretches 60 miles across Scotland to Inverness. The...

Puttering Along on a Maine Coast Cruise

Puttering Along on a Maine Coast Cruise

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...

Ponant's Summer Sailings & Many More Small-Ship Tidings

Ponant's Summer Sailings & Many More Small-Ship Tidings

Ponant's Summer Sailings By Anne Kalosh Ponant's Summer Sailings Ponant, which resumed service last summer before halting over the winter, plans a gradual resumption in summer 2021 featuring its new polar vessel, Le Commandant-Charcot, and sailings in the Arctic,...

Windstar Drops Alaska in 2021 & Announces Delays

Windstar Drops Alaska in 2021 & Announces Delays

Windstar Drops Alaska in 2021 By Anne Kalosh Windstar Cruises became the first line to give Alaska a pass in 2021. This news comes with the postponement of all sailings until May and revised routes to skip the United States and Mexico. The delay impacts the recently...

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