Browsing All Posts By George Day
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For the Hungry Crew 0
Cooking in the Galley
This article from seriouseats.com will give you ideas on provisioning your boat. The sun slowly melts into the horizon in a riot of fluorescent streaks—pink and orange flame the sky, ...
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Cool Things to Do 0
World’s Largest Viking Ship Set to Visit U.S. East Coast Ports
The Draken Harald Harfagre is a recreation of what the Vikings would call a “Great Ship”. Begun in 2010, she was built using old boatbuilding traditions and with input from ...
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Boat Reviews 0
Introducing the New Jeanneau Cruising Odyssey 410: Watch Video
To design the Sun Odyssey 410, Jeanneau reached out to long standing design partner Marc Lombard, who was assisted by Jean-Marc Piaton. Together, they delivered on the challenge ...
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Dock Talk 0
Missing on Lake Pontchartrain
Family joins with Cajun Navy in search for Sadie Thibodeaux Sadie Thibodeaux’s family and friends huddled under a gazebo near the U.S. Coast Guard station in Metairie, LA, ...
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Dock Talk 0
A Leap of Faith On Hitching a Ride Across the Atlantic
Have you ever thought about hitching a ride across the Atlantic? Follow along as Dorian Cave writes about his experience on catching a ride. “You’re here to find ...
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Dock Talk 0
Have They Got It Right This Time?
There have been many theories about the ships that have gone missing in the “Bermuda Triangle”. One of the latest is written up here in the Huffington Post Scientists ...
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Dock Talk 0
Alleged $245 Million Cocaine Smuggling Plot
Pehaps sounding more like the beginning of a bad novel, comes this article on a bass guitarist from a 1980s pop band charged with being a ringleader in ...
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Dock Talk 0
Not Only in the Ocean
The oceans are filling with plastic and now it appears that plastic refuse is filling our Great Lakes as well, as written about in Treehugger. Plastic is often ...
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Dock Talk 0
Sargassum: The Seaweed Deluge Hitting Caribbean Shores
When waves of sargassum – a type of seaweed – washed up on Eastern Caribbean shores seven years ago, people hoped it was a one-off. Matted piles swamped ...
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Mindbender 0
MIndbender
On a Mercator Projection chart, does a great circle course across an ocean curve away from the pole or toward the pole? Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. ...
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