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Dock Talk
Summer Sailstice is this Saturday! Sign Up and Win!
It’s not too late to sign up for the global sailing holiday, Summer Sailstice! Founded in 2001 as the global, annual celebration of sailing held on the summer ...
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Boat Rat's Tip of the Week
Could You Anchor Your Sailboat in Ten Seconds?
Here’s another great tip from our friend Capt. John from skippertips.com… You enter the narrow 50 yard wide channel between the jetties under power. A brisk cross-channel wind ...
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Boat Reviews
Blue Jacket 40
For the past 30 years, you could not sail into a harbor anywhere in North America, and most of the rest of the world, too, without seeing a ...
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Dock Talk
Early Signs Point to a Strong, Disruptive El Niño
A developing El Niño in the equatorial Pacific has generated the usual predictions of drastic weather changes—some devastating, some beneficial—throughout the world. There’s a 90 percent probability that an El ...
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Dock Talk
Coast Guard Report Blames Management, Captain for Sinking of HMS Bounty
If the management and the captain of the sunken tall ship HMS Bounty had “exercised the proper responsibility, judgment and prudence,” the deaths of two people would have ...
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Dock Talk
UPDATE: Hokule‘a and Hikianalia Make Good Time Sailing to Tahiti
Strong, steady trades and lighter, swifter hulls are so far helping Hokule‘a make its fastest time yet to Tahiti, crews sailing on the first international leg of the ...
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Dock Talk
New Polar Code for Cruising in the High Latitudes
Thinking of sailing to the Arctic or Antarctic any time soon? Then you’ll need to know about the new “Polar Code”, being developed for ships and yachts. The ...
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Tech Talk
Sea Hawk Announces New Epoxy System
Sea Hawk’s new Hawk Epoxy, manufactured by Sea Hawk Paints, a division of New Nautical Coatings, Inc., is a state-of-the-art epoxy system for building and repairing boats, planes, surfboards, canoes, and ...
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Dock Talk
Meet the 19-Year-Old With a 10-Year Plan to Clean Half the Pacific Ocean
He’s ambitious, backed by 100 researchers, environmentalists and communications professionals, and he’s only 19. Boyan Slat is the president and founder of the Ocean Cleanup and creator of a technology ...
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Boat Rat's Tip of the Week
Seven GPS Navigation Tips for Safer Cruising!
Here’s another great set of tips from our friend Capt. John from skippertips.com… Tap into the hidden power of your nautical GPS. Set your GPS alarm functions to ...
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