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The Coast Guard During the Government Shutdown
Politics aside, no matter how you swing in the debate over “The Wall” and the government shutdown, if you are a sailor and a cruiser, then you will ...
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Man Overboard Prevention
Over the holidays we ran into a lot of old sailing friends at parties and caught up with a lot of sea stories from the last year. One ...
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Dodging Squalls
Every time I have made the passage from the East Coast to the Caribbean in the fall, there is always a sigh of relief when we get down ...
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Going Aloft at Sea
We were about half way across the North Atlantic last summer when the Windex at the top of Maverick’s mast got jammed. It was a small thing but ...
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Salty Dawg Fall Rally in the Books
The eighth annual Salty Dawg Fall Rally saw 70 boats depart from Hampton, VA in early November bound for points south in the Caribbean and Bahamas. As always, ...
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Fall Weather Windows in the Atlantic
Since there has been quite a lot of buzz on social media about sailing in the North Atlantic in the fall, last week I addressed the issue of ...
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Atlantic Weather Windows in the Fall
Every fall as many as 500 boats sail south offshore from the U.S. East Coast to the Bahamas and Caribbean and every year there is a debate about ...
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Salty Dawg Rally Sails South
The Salty Dawg Fall Rally is in full swing as over 70 boats make passages south to the BVI, Antigua and the Bahamas. The fleet started from Hampton, ...
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A New American Classic
Back in October, after the Annapolis sailboat show, I got a chance to go out sailing on the brand new Tartan 395 that had been introduced at the ...
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Redundancy, Redundancy…Redundancy
If you are headed to the Caribbean, Bahamas or Mexico and Central America this winter aboard your own boat, you will be finding yourself from time to time ...
