Tom Harrington

About Tom Harrington

Tom Harrington holds an RYA Yachtmaster Ocean certificate and has spent more than twenty years sailing the Caribbean and Mediterranean. Based in Tortola, British Virgin Islands since 2008, he first stepped aboard a sailing dinghy at the age of fourteen on the Solent and never looked back. He crossed the Atlantic twice — once as crew on the ARC rally in 2005, racing from Las Palmas to Rodney Bay aboard a Beneteau First 47.7, and once delivering a 72-foot ketch from Antigua to the Azores through 2,400 nautical miles of open ocean. Before founding ExploreYachts.com in 2001, Tom spent five years as sailing correspondent for Yachting Monthly, covering everything from boat show launches to offshore race reports. Over the course of his career he has logged more than 80,000 nautical miles under sail. His specialties are Caribbean charter guides, destination reviews, and passage-planning articles that draw on decades of first-hand local knowledge. Tom’s writing style prioritizes practical, experience-tested advice over theoretical instruction — if he recommends an anchorage, it is because he has swung on the hook there himself, usually more than once. When not on the water, he can be found in Road Town harbour restoring a 1976 Hallberg-Rassy 35 that he picked up at a yard sale in 2016 and has been painstakingly bringing back to offshore condition ever since.