SSCA...

Formed in 1952, the Seven Seas Cruising Association has long been one of the best resources for the cruising sailor. Period!

Membership includes what is easily the best cruising info available anywhere in the guise of its monthly newsletter which is written by members. These days where most "cruising" articles in the yachting press are simply bareboat charter accounts which have very little to do with cruising and a lot to do with pimping their advertisers. The monthly newsletters by the SSCA being written by people who are out there and doing it in a timely manner is truly the gold standard and if you join only to be able to get the newsletter you are way ahead of the game.

I'd go on as there are many more reasons you should join but the SSCA can do it a lot better so I will just let you take a look at the SSCA!

Really it is not rocket science... JOIN!