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Top 20 Security Tips For You and Your Yacht
It is reasonable to assume that the small crew of a private pleasure vessel travelling through remote areas of Australia or an overseas country may at some time ...
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Troubleshooting a Manual Marine Head
Engines stall, pumps stop pumping, and lights stop working quite frequently on boats—it’s part of the game. But there’s perhaps no more troublesome piece of equipment aboard than ...
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Do You Know About Noodles Notes?
If you’d like to have your expectations exceeded, we suggest you take a look at Bill Leary’s Noodles Notes, which is a free online cruising guide to the ...
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Piracy off the Coast of Honduras
Merchant marine captain Mike Brown spends his summers in Las Vegas, New Mexico and his winters on his sailboat. Recently he described why he thought he might be ...
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Aussie Woman to Attempt Solo Sailing Circumnavigation of Antarctica
Aussie sailor Lisa Blair is about to set out on a very difficult sailing expedition. So much so, that no woman has ever accomplished it solo before. She ...
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That Little Boat is Going to Cross the Atlantic?
In 2011 Matt Kent, bosun of the tall ship Niagara, was picking old oakum out of the deck in Erie, Pennsylvania, when he had an epiphany. “I wonder, ...
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New Zealand Sailor Alan Langdon Charged by Police
Sailor Alan Langdon, who sailed across the Tasman Sea from New Zealand to Australia with his six-year-old daughter, Que, is now facing criminal charges. A major search operation ...
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The Scourge of Fiberglass: Tackling Osmosis
Eventually all yachties have to tackle problems with the layup material of their freedom machines, whether it be rot, rust or osmosis. It is just the nature of ...
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Deaf Sailor Gavin Reid Honored for Daring Rescue During Yacht Race
It wasn’t until Gavin Reid was pulling himself up a 75-foot yacht mast in the dark in the middle of Pacific Ocean that he actually stopped to think ...
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Myanmar’s Mergui Archipelago: Sailing Through One of Earth’s Last Paradises
There are few places on Earth that rival the untamed wilderness and primal seclusion of Myanmar’s Mergui Archipelago. Captain Thomas Bruning knows this all too well. Since leaving ...
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