I've moved this suggestion from its original location into this new thread, so we can discuss specifically whether we want a change to the forum itself, and what form that should take.
For now, until we settle whether we want a subforum on cruising, I suggest, @shagbark, that you post a new thread in the "miscellaneous" section, making sure that the subject line contains "Cruising". In that, you could ask your questions about cruising tips and details and see whether others would like to join the discussion.
If this starts a good discussion and we see enough interest, it could turn into the seed for a new section.
On a related note, I have long thought that "Sails" and "Rigging" are too fine grained to have their own sub-forums (and many posts go between the two topics -- they are pretty close). I think they would work just as well if merged, which would "free up" a slot. (Yes, I know, there's not actually a hard limit, but having too many sub-forums is unwieldy). What do others feel? Should we combine these, irrespective of whether we add a cruising sub-forum?
We have some older discussions on cruising and cruising related modifications. Perhaps there's interest to locate them and bring them together under a new "roof" so to speak? I'm not volunteering to do the search, but I can help out with moving topics at some point. For now, for anyone interested in getting the ball rolling, you could create a thread under "miscellaneous" named "Old Cruising-related topics" and collect a list of links pointing to existing older, but still useful, topics in the forum.
Finally, I'm always happy to move a topic to a more "fitting" subforum - except that I normally focus on the more recent topics. I'm open to suggestions in specific cases. We've had some wide-ranging discussions recently that were started by default in the section for DS1, DS2 or DS3, but some are really about specific topics, so I'll accept nominations for better locations or suggestions for splitting topics (extracting a sub-discussion so the info in it can be located more easily later).