George Day

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    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 ...

    On June 12, 2019 / By
  • 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 ...

    On June 4, 2019 / By
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    Mindbender

    What is St. Elmo’s fire?   Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers and will win a one-year subscription to ...

    On June 4, 2019 / By
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    Mindbender

    What rigging items do you use to support a staysail stay or inner fore stay in a cutter rig?   Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner will ...

    On May 29, 2019 / By
  • Just Cruising with George Day 0

    To Catch a Fish

    Whenever we are going somewhere in open water on our boat we always have a fishing line trolling off the stern. We’re fish eaters so foraging in this ...

    On May 22, 2019 / By
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    Mindbender

    What are the primary currents that makeup the North Atlantic Gyre?   Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers and ...

    On May 22, 2019 / By
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    Pros and Cons of Guns Onboard

    Dear George, We are 5 years into a circumnavigation from the U.S.A. Presently our boat is in Malaysia.I am a retired journalist who spent much of my life ...

    On May 22, 2019 / By
  • Just Cruising with George Day 0

    Should Cruisers Carry Guns?

    I grew up learning to shoot and have hunted a bit with rifles and shotguns. And we have cruised in some of the world’s least developed areas, countries ...

    On May 15, 2019 / By
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    MIndbender

    Does a windvane self-steering device respond to the “true” or “apparent” wind as it steers a sailboat?   Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected ...

    On May 15, 2019 / By
  • Just Cruising with George Day 0

    Days at Sea

    I don’t know about you, but there are times in this busy, highly connected information age we live in, that I get the sense that we are collectively ...

    On May 8, 2019 / By