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Beaufort, SC Mooring Field Expansion Slated for Early Next Year
Expansion of the Beaufort Downtown Marina’s mooring field will get underway in the new year, harbormaster Rick Griffin said. Fourteen moorings will be added, which he hopes will ...
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Sailors Survive After Boat Sinks in the Pacific
Three mariners have made it safely to Oahu aboard a container ship after their sailboat sank 280 miles northeast of Hilo, Hawaii, Thursday. The crew of the 38-foot ...
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Sailor Presumed Lost at Sea Off West Coast of Mexico
Nearly three weeks overdue on a passage from El Salvador to Acapulco, the unusual 40-ft ‘hybrid wave-piercer’ sloop Seven Sisters was recently found by the Coast Guard, upside-down 400 ...
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Vestas Wind: A Tale of Escape
Team Vestas Wind’s nine ship-wrecked men finally made it back to civilization yesterday, telling of their amazing escape from a collision with an Indian Ocean reef which grounded ...
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Building Boats Can Rebuild Lives
In Tacoma, Washington, juvenile offenders are making a promise to turn their lives around, thanks to a program that’s teaching them to build boats – and much, much ...
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UPDATE: Salty Dawgs Complete Successful Fall Rally to Caribbean
The 68 strong fleet in the Fall Salty Dawg Rally are in the B.V.I. and Bahamas and thoroughly enjoying life in the sun. The passage south started on ...
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Gunboat G4 Coastal Cruiser-Racer to Launch in Early 2015
The fastest, most outrageous coastal cruiser-racer ever will launch in early 2015. Gunboat’s new 40ft G4 could hit speeds only much larger, extreme racing multihulls are capable of. And ...
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Use These Sailing Navigation Lights with Caution
Here’s another great set of navigation tips from our friend Capt. John from skippertips.com… You sail into the narrow waterway just after sunset. You scan your chart plotter ...
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Mindbender
When reefing the mainsail, what is the new tack attached to at the gooseneck? Send your answer to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner, who will receive a Blue Water Sailing hat, will be selected at ...
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Couple Hard at Work Resurrecting Historic Schooner
The Nathaniel Bowditch is virtually unrecognizable. It’s been gutted and stripped, and it’s in the process of being renovated, repaired and reconstructed. But by mid-summer 2015, Noah and Jane ...
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