Browsing All Posts By George Day

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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 ...

  On July 17, 2019 / By George Day
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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 ...

  On July 10, 2019 / By George Day
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  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 ...

  On July 10, 2019 / By George Day
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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 ...

  On June 26, 2019 / By George Day
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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, ...

  On June 26, 2019 / By George Day
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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 ...

  On June 26, 2019 / By George Day
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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 ...

  On June 19, 2019 / By George Day
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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 ...

  On June 19, 2019 / By George Day
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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. ...

  On June 19, 2019 / By George Day
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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 ...

  On June 12, 2019 / By George Day