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Getting Started in Celestial Navigation
Ready to learn to use a sextant? Or maybe your celestial navigation skills are a little rusty? This video is a good starting point for gaining a better ...
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Dealing With Dirty Fuel
Bound for the Windward Islands from the Bahamas, perhaps via the Dominican Republic and the Mona Passage, you’ll often find the subject of dirty fuel at the top ...
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Protecting GPS From Spoofers Is Critical to the Future of Navigation
Just hours before U.S. president Barack Obama delivered his final State of the Union speech in January, two U.S. Navy patrol boats wandered into Iranian waters. The Iranian ...
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Freeing Seized Hardware
Simple ferrous-metal oxidation is a process in which iron, oxygen, and water chemically react, and it can cause rust to seemingly weld fasteners together. This unyielding grip often ...
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Double-check for Propane Leaks
After a recent post on portable marine heaters and insulation, a few people asked about liquid petroleum gas (LPG) heaters. Simply stated: We at Practical Sailor, are not ...
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The Truth About Teak Decks
Shipwright Robin Benjamin says modern, thin teak decks need lots of regular care, and so it’s vital to follow his advice on how to keep them looking good. ...
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Raymarine Quantum Pulse Compression Radar Tested
The technique of pulse compression in radar is not new: the original patents go back to the 1940s, but it is new to leisure radars. One of the ...
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What You Need to Know to Polish Your Fuel
In our early years of cruising, we learned the hard way about how important clean fuel is. I did not worry about the fuel as long as the ...
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How to Check Keel Bolts
There have been some high-profile keel losses in recent times, and this has focused attention on keels and how they are held on. However, before you pale in ...
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How Accurate are Nautical Charts?
NOAA announces that charts will provide more information on “zone of confidence”. It is a major challenge – some might say an impossibility – to keep all thousand ...
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