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Annapolis Boat Show Preparing for Hurricane Matthew
For 47 years, Annapolis has been hosting the Fall Sailboat and Powerboat Show. “The concept of the in water sailboat show was invented in Annapolis in 1970,” president ...
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This Woman Quit Her Job And Makes Twice As Much Cruising The World
“Freedom.” That is how Victoria Fine describes her life. In April, Fine left a big job at Slate to launch her own business, Finally, a growth hacking company ...
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Efficient Sailing: Passage Routing
Behan aboard Totem summarizes her passage routing strategy in this blog post. Very useful information from a seasoned cruiser. Efficient sailing is partly about sail trim and sail ...
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Why Are Breaking Waves So Dangerous to Yachts?
There have been many examples of yachts making landfall, sometimes to seek shelter, only to find themselves in graver danger on the harbor approach. In 2012, Australian Mini ...
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A History of Sea Going Clockwork
It is almost a generation since 1994, when GPS finally relegated celestial navigation to being just an intermittent, time consuming and relatively inaccurate backup method of position fixing. ...
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The Yacht Northabout Completes Northeast and Northwest Passages in a Single Season
The yacht Northabout left Bristol, United Kingdom, in June and circled the North Pole in an anticlockwise direction. Its exit from Canada’s Lancaster Sound signaled the successful navigation ...
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U.S. Coast Guard Searching for Missing Mariner Enroute from Hawaii to British Columbia
The U.S. Coast Guard is searching for a British Columbia sailor last seen by a fellow mariner leaving Hilo, Hawaii, in his boat on Aug. 1. Lt. Donnie ...
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Nine Fortunate Souls Who Survived Being Lost at Sea
The sea is like a wet desert. There’s no food. There’s no shelter. Nothing to drink. In every direction, the view is the same: nothing. Plus, dangerous predators ...
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15 Illegals Found on Board a Catamaran in Marigot Bay, St. Lucia
The skipper of a catamaran has been sentenced in Guadeloupe for attempting to transport fifteen illegals by boat from St. Lucia to St. Thomas in the US Virgin ...
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A Letter From an Escapee
By Todd Duff I’m a former marine surveyor and a long-time cruiser who recently returned to the workforce as a yacht broker in the Caribbean and something quite ...
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