Browsing All Posts By Sandy Parks
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Dock Talk 0
Solo, Non-Stop Sail From New York to San Francisco
Experienced, 42 year old sailor Ryan Finn plans on sailing a 36-foot proa, Jzerro on a 60-day journey, attempting to establish a record for a non-stop singlehanded journey ...
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Just Cruising with George Day 0
Goodbye 2020
There hasn’t been a year quite like 2020 in living memory. A lot went wrong due to the covid-19 pandemic, the loss of 300,000 lives and counting and ...
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For the Hungry Crew 0
Vegetable Pinwheels
This recipe from Food Lovin Family features a colorful appetizer filled with veggies. Simple to make and easy to use as finger food, have fun picking what vegetables ...
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Tech Talk 0
New Weather Routing Algorithm From PredictWind
PredictWind has announced a new weather routing algorithm which will lead to faster routes. They have also added long range forecasts to their model along with ‘routing corridors’ ...
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Boat Rat's Tip of the Week 0
Closing a Country’s Borders – Be Aware
by Hank George, President, SDSA and Bruce Rabun Many cruisers are familiar with the term “Right of Innocent Passage” and interpret that to mean as long as they ...
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Whale Strike in the Pacific
(Yachting Monthly) – Sailing journalist Peter Nielsen was helping to deliver an Atlantic 46 catamaran One Tree Island in August 2020 when he and the two others onboard ...
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Christmas Trees Travel Lake Michigan
(MIchigan Live) – As they have done for the past 20 years, the Coast Guard recreated the 1912 Christmas-time journey of the Rouse Simmons, a Lake Michigan cargo ...
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Heavy Weather Causes Loss of Well Over 1,000 Containers
(G Captain) – Heavy weather in early December caused a container ship, the ONE Apus, to roll heavily in seas in the mid-Pacific causing the loss or damage ...
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Covid-19 Aids in Fishless Fish Growth
(Outside Magazine) – The seafood industry has been hit hard by the pandemic, sales of fresh seafood have dropped while canned and frozen seafood has surged. Some companies ...
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