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Do You Want to Sail to the Caribbean with the Salty Dawgs This Fall? June 24 Webinar Tells You How

Plans are well underway for the Salty Dawg Sailing Association’s 2025 Caribbean Rally. This year will mark the 15th consecutive year of sailing in company to the Caribbean. ...
On June 19, 2025 / By George Day
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Sail Caribbean Teaches Life Skills as Well as Seamanship

This is a bit of a plug for an ASA summer program for teens but we know the program well and think many parents will see the value ...
On May 1, 2024 / By George Day
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Race to Alaska Changes to Biennial Format in 2026

The Race to Alaska, known as R2AK, announced in March that the engineless sailing event from Port Townsend, WA to Ketchikan, AK will start on June 9 as ...
On April 24, 2024 / By George Day
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Sail Libra for Authentic Blue Water Experiences

There’s no better way to learn the ropes of blue water sailing and passage making than to jump on a seaworthy boat with an experienced and professional skipper ...
On April 17, 2024 / By George Day
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Safety at Sea Seminars Save Lives

If you and your crew are planning to enter offshore events or rallies this year, or will be making miles offshore, then it makes sense for you to ...
On April 17, 2024 / By George Day
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Want to Try Foiling?

This is the time of year for new resolutions. How about one regarding learning to foil? Most likely at first glance it looks a bit intimidating but you ...
On January 4, 2024 / By Sandy Parks
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Cruising the Bahamas

Matt Claiborne in waterwayguide.com proposes a new “loop”. Instead of doing the Great Loop from the east coast and through the Mississippi he suggests the Bahamas Loop. He ...
On November 16, 2023 / By Sandy Parks
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Grenada’s Underwater Sculpture Park

The next time you are in Grenada make sure you check out the underwater sculpture park. First begun in 2006 there are well over 30 sculptures. Artist Jason ...
On September 22, 2023 / By Sandy Parks
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Chicago Maritime Museum

Not so long ago, water was the highway of the world. For thousands of years – and well into the 19th Century — movement on land was slow, ...
On August 4, 2023 / By George Day
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Summer Festivals, Nantucket, MA

If you are cruising off the coast of Massachusetts from now through August, make sure you check out some of the festivals on Nantucket. As worldwideboat.com notes: Nantucket’s ...
On June 15, 2023 / By Sandy Parks