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Sailor Stereotyping
It’s easy to assume there are just two teams in the boating world: the sailors and the stinkpots, right? Wrong. Even among the sailboat crowd factions exist, sometimes ...
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Rendezvous in Dominica – Exceptional Fun!
Join this Salty Dawg Rendezvous from February 12th – 19th, 2017 on the beautiful island of Dominica as the P.A.Y.S. organization hosts Yachtie Appreciation Week. Based out of ...
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TowBoatUS Now in the Caribbean
Capt. Robert Manley, a New Jersey native who has been running marine businesses in the Caribbean for the last 25 years, has opened TowBoatUS St. Thomas in the ...
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Cartography Lessons Learned Searching for the Best Charts of Cuba
Written for Panbo.com by Ben Ellison. Pardon my photography, but the point is that many detailed, up-to-date, and well-crafted official paper charts of Cuba do exist. Unfortunately, they’re ...
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Safety-At-Sea Video Library Now Available Online
Available for the first time to all sailors, this 10-video library brings to you over two hours of safety-at-sea strategies, techniques, and tips developed by some of the ...
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IDEC SPORT Crossed Indian Ocean at the Incredible Average Speed of 35.08 Knots
The IDEC SPORT maxi-trimaran crossed the longitude of Cape Leeuwin 17 days, 6 hours and 59 minutes after leaving Ushant. This means they were almost 16 hours and ...
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An Incident of Piracy off the Coast of Nicaragua
A yacht owner and friend were sailing a 39 foot monohull from Bocas del Toro, Panama to Belize. Passing 30-40 miles off the shallow coast of Nicaragua, it had ...
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Into the Storm: The True Story of a Harrowing Ocean Rescue
One terrible night in 2015, two giant ships sailed into a hurricane—a new breed of superstorm that, thanks to climate change, had defied all expectations and would soon ...
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The Salty Dawg Rally to Cuba
The Salty Dawg Sailing Association has announced a new rally for this coming Spring – a Rally to Cuba. The Rally is structured for American vessels and citizens, ...
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Vendée Globe Boat Has Extensive Damage From Collision, Possibly With a Shipping Container
French yachtsman Thomas Ruyant has no idea how his yacht managed to make it back to Bluff Harbour, New Zealand. Ruyant’s badly damaged yacht Le Souffle de Nord, ...
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