Browsing All Posts By George Day
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Dock Talk 0
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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Just Cruising with George Day 0
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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UP FRONT 0
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 0
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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Just Cruising with George Day 0
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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UP FRONT 0
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 0
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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Just Cruising with George Day 0
Heaving to in Heavy Weather
As good luck would have it, I’ve never had to heave-to at sea due to storm conditions for the simple reasons that either the storms have been blowing ...
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Mindbender 0
MIndbender
What is Point Nemo and where is it? Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers and will win a ...
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Just Cruising with George Day 0
Cuba Closed to Cruisers Again
On Tuesday of this week, the U.S. Treasury Department announced that it was restricting travel to Cuba for American citizens and specifically mentioned that it was prohibiting travel ...
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