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Women Making Waves in the Volvo Ocean Race
Sailing is one sport where women and men can compete of a fairly level playing field. This has been proved once again by the women sailing in the ...
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Memorable Momemts: Saying Goodbye to an Incredible Year of Cruising
Andy and Jill Cross and their two young sons are dedicated cruisers. They have spend the last year cruising from Seattle to Alaska where they are spending the ...
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Sailing Totem Promotion Mistake
In this week’s Cruising Compass, we promoted a blog and a website from a cruising family in the hopes that readers would go to their website, read their ...
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Ancient Shipwrecks Are a Treasure Trove of Climate Data
Thousands of sailors perished in stormy seas throughout the Caribbean in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries. Surely they would never have guessed that their terrifying ends would ...
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Dog Aboard Roundup: “Fur Mates” of 2017
Our friends at The Log in San Diego run a fun column in their monthly magazine on pets aboard. Here’s their look back at the year in sailing ...
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Classic Yacht Dorade Shines in 2018 Sydney Hobart Race
The 86-year-old Sparkman and Stephens classic yacht Dorade finished in second place in two divisions (IRC Division 4/ORCi Div 4), in the formidable Rolex Sydney Hobart Race last ...
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Ice Patrol: More Than 1,000 Icebergs Drifted Into N. Atlantic Shipping Lanes in 2017
The U.S. agency tasked with monitoring iceberg activity in the North Atlantic counted about 1,000 icebergs that drifted into shipping lanes this year. The mission of the International Ice ...
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Cruising off the Beaten Path in SE Alaska
You have no doubt heard of these popular destinations in SE Alaska; Ketchikan, Juneau, Glacier Bay and Sitka? Perhaps you’ve heard of Tracy Arm as well? They are ...
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Storm Passage to Ibiza on a Lagoon 52: Watch the Video.
Catamaran seamanship is something that keeps coming up in the cruising community…what’s it like to sail a big cruising cat through a gale. This video is narrated in ...
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Zanzibar Adventure: Spice Island Sailing Charters
Here’s a sailing adventure from the far east of Africa…the exotic and remote islands of Zanzibar. “Quick, look! The sky is on fire,” says our skipper, ...
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