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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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12 Reasons to do a Vietnam 🇻🇳 Red River Cruise with Pandaw

12 Reasons to do a Vietnam 🇻🇳 Red River Cruise with Pandaw

Vietnam Red River Cruise with Pandaw By Heidi Sarna. I recently returned from a wonderfully quirky 10-night Vietnam Red River cruise aboard Pandaw Cruises' 32-passenger Angkor Pandaw, sailing some 650 kilometers from Halong Bay westerly towards Hanoi and beyond. My...

QuirkyCruise News: Seabourn Orders Two New Expedition Ships

QuirkyCruise News: Seabourn Orders Two New Expedition Ships

By Anne Kalosh. Seabourn Orders Two New Expedition Ships Seabourn became the latest line to order new ships for luxurious expedition cruising. The pair of 23,000-gross-ton vessels will each carry up to 264 passengers in 132 veranda suites. The first ship is due in...

Small Ship Cruise Captain George Coughlin Talks to QC

Small Ship Cruise Captain George Coughlin Talks to QC

By Ted Scull. George Freeman Coughlin has been sailing as a small ship cruise captain for many years, working for Coastwise Cruise Line, Exploration Cruise Lines, Clipper Cruise Line, Cruise West, St. Lawrence Cruise Lines, Lindblad Expeditions/National Geographic,...

TRINITY Sailing (DEFUNCT)

TRINITY Sailing (DEFUNCT)

Trinity Sailing  Update (2019) Part of Brixham’s heritage fleet is to be sold after The Trinity Sailing Foundation, a charity which has taken thousands of disadvantaged people to sea for 20 years, announced it has to cease current operations and redefine its mission....

A Chance Meeting on a Scottish Train

A Chance Meeting on a Scottish Train

By Ted Scull. In early June at the end of a 10-day visit to Scotland, my wife and I boarded the morning train from Oban to Glasgow, the first of two train journeys down to London. We occupied a pair of assigned seats facing each other while next to me was an...

QuirkyCruise News: Billion-Dollar Royal Caribbean Silversea Deal

QuirkyCruise News: Billion-Dollar Royal Caribbean Silversea Deal

By Anne Kalosh. Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. is paying $1 billion for a 67 percent stake in small-ship, ultra-luxury Silversea Cruises. RCL Chairman and CEO Richard Fain called Silversea "a crown jewel." With this Royal Caribbean Silversea deal, one of cruising's...

Women Take the Helm: Lady Captains on Small Ship Cruises

Women Take the Helm: Lady Captains on Small Ship Cruises

Lady Captains on Small Ship Cruises By Anne Kalosh. More women are joining the ranks of cruise ship captains, and several are commanding small vessels. Meet a batch of remarkable mariners — go lady captains! Sea Cloud Cruises' Kathryn Whittaker Germany's Sea Cloud...

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