Browsing All Posts By George Day
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How Do You Sail and Cruise as a Couple?
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote the Just Cruising column on how we as a couple sail our boats and asked for comments. We got this thoughtful ...
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Mindbender
What day of the week do traditionalists consider a bad day to start a long offshore voyage? Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected ...
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Foggy Days Along the Coast
Spring and early summer are the foggy months along our coastlines and in the Great Lakes. It has to do with warm air flowing over cold water to ...
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Mindbender
When you recite the mnemoic “East is Least and West is Best” what navigation function are you referring to? Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner will ...
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Who is the Skipper Aboard Your Boat?
Last weekend, I was part of a fun Blue Water Seminar held at the Essex, CT Yacht Club. The event was put on by Essex native Bob Osborn ...
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Should Sailors Be Certified? The Question Gets Revisited
Back in April, I wrote a Just Cruising column asking the simple question, “Should sailors be certified?” We got a ton of response from CC readers. Last week, ...
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Mindbender
Where on a sailboat would you find a gudgeon (not the fish, the metal piece of hardware)? Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected ...
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Department of Redundancy Department
The Sail-o-Mat 740 windvane self steering device we had on the back of our Mason 43 Clover was so well-designed, so well-built that it had never failed us ...
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Advice from Readers on Heaving To
In Last week’s Just Cruising, I explored heaving to aboard a cruising sailboat and mentioned some of the things that can go wrong and some tactics for making ...
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MIndbender
If the North Star marks true north in the Northern Hemisphere, what star or stars indicate true south in the Southern Hemisphere? Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. ...
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