Since 1977, I have authored hundreds of articles, primarily in the marine field. These have run the gamut from voyaging stories and columns about life aboard to how-to pieces and highly technical articles for those in the marine trades. Among my specialties are design history and trends, seamanship, survival, and voyaging. It's been a joy and privilege to create in-depth profiles of leading designers like Dick Newick, Jean Marie Finot, Nigel Irens, and the late Olin Stephens. Other design pieces have foreshadowed developments in hull shapes, kite sails, hydrofoils, water ballast, dual rudders, streamlined pilot houses, and the multihull evolution. With colleagues, I've tested hundreds of boats and a lot of equipment for articles and special sections about everything from boating contests to optimizing sails, evaluating life rafts, packing ditch kits, and refitting boats. Other sailors' experiences have also provided valuable lessons, from what singlehanders did to jury rig their boats during transocean and round-the-world races to how cruisers handled the infamous Queen's Birthday Storm.

Hopefully more and more of these articles will become available directly on this site or via download. Presently, we offer you links to some already online through third-party sites with which I work, cyber places like Cruising World and Equipped to Survive. You're going to find a lot more of interest on these sites as well, including pieces by such epic mariners as Herb McCormick and associate Alvah Simon. If you are interested in the articles that I've written over the years on boat designers for Professinal Boatbuilder magazine, please click here or on "Pro Boat Articles" highlighted at the bottom right of this page. Note that if you search for my articles on other sites or on search engines, you will obtain different listings when you enter Steven Callahan or Steve Callahan. Enjoy.