Extremely Powerful Tropical Cyclone A super-typhoon is an extremely powerful tropical cyclone in the Northwest Pacific Ocean, distinguished by sustained wind speeds of at least 150 miles per hour (241...

Typhoon Saola had been a super typhoon on Thursday August 31, but was downgraded to typhoon status on Friday September 1, by the Joint Typhoon Warning Center. It still remains...

Visiting Taiwan by Yacht Robert E Wilson Taiwan is eager for visits by foreign yachts, but the port officials do not have much experience in non-commercial arrivals. A bit of...

Cruising Taiwan Cruising in Taiwan is much easier than ten years ago, but the facilities are just beginning to emerge. What makes up for lack of facilities or language barriers...

Taiwan April 2009 We made initial contact by email to tbroc@tbroc.gov.tw giving information on our yacht….size, draft, colour, name, country of origin, names and nationality of a crew, our ETA...

We had a nice stay in both Kaohsiung, Taiwan and Xiamen, China, but not without problems in China. As to sailing between China and Taiwan we got a problem (but...