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New Harken Element Blocks: Big Value, Small Price
The all new Element blocks from Harken have been designed form the ground up to combine Harken’s legendary, high-tech engineering with a streamlined manufacturing process and lower cost ...
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Boat Rat's Tip of the Week 0
Offshore Power Management For Cruising Boats
By Bob Williams How to build an energy system that is robust, reliable and up to the rigors of offshore sailing For the past 30 years we ...
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Dock Talk 0
After Irma, What to Do with Orphaned Boats?
It has been four months since Hurricane Irma smashed into the Florida coast after thoroughly devastating islands in the Caribbean. Yet, harbors and marinas all around southern Florida ...
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Rescuers Remove 285 Feet Line from Whale’s Mouth Off Maui
We’ve had a run of whale stories in Cruising Compass. Last week we linked to a story about a whale in Tonga protecting a SCUBA diver from a ...
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Dock Talk 0
Icy Photos Show Coast Guard, Freighters Pushing Through Great Lakes Freeze
For most northern boaters, this holiday season and early January will leave a lasting memory. Has it ever been so cold? Well, yes, but that doesn’t do much ...
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Dock Talk 0
Water-Skiing Squirrel Performs During 2018 Toronto Int’l Boat Show
This is something you don’t see every day. But in Toronto this winter you could see little Twiggy doing his thing on a custom water skiing platform to ...
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Boat Reviews 0
The Real Meaning Of Gran Tourismo: The Elan GT5
Built in Slovenia, this new 40-foot Rob Humphries design brings the real meaning of “Gran Tourismo” to the yachting world It was a lovely, light air morning on ...
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For the Hungry Crew 0
Simple and Delicious Coffee Cake
When we are sharing an anchorage with a few other boats, people we know and people we don’t know, we like to invite them over for a cup ...
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Mindbender 0
Mindbender
What do you call the line with a compass value that you draw on a chart between your boat and a landmark, buoy or another boat.? Send ...
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Tech Talk 0
B&G introduces new Vulcan Chartplotters that are Radar-Enabled
B&G Vulcan Range Brings Dedicated Sailing Features and Radar to Club Racers and Cruisers in New 12- and 7-inch Models B&G, the world’s leading sailing navigation and instrument ...
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