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The Salty Dawg Sailing Association Announces 2025 Rally Across the Atlantic to the Azores Islands

July 5, 2024 — Today, the Salty Dawg Sailing Associatiion’s president Bob Osborn made the announcement and said, “The rally will have starting locations in St. Martin in ...
On July 9, 2024 / By George Day
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Gori Propellors Still Performing After 50 Years

As the Danish company Gori, which makes Gori Propellors, approaches its 50th anniversary, it’s worth taking a few moments to reflect on just how much the invention of ...
On July 9, 2024 / By George Day
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The Bitter End Yacht Club Risen from the Ashes

In September 2017, hurricane Irma struck the Caribbean with historic force causing devastation in a swath from Guadeloupe to the Virgin Island and on to Puerto Rico. One ...
On July 9, 2024 / By George Day
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Sail from Spain to the Caribbean on a Bali 5.4 Cat

Hank Schmitt will be a familiar name to many Cruising Compass readers. He founded and runs Offshore Passage Opportunities and the NARC Rally. He has made blue water ...
On July 9, 2024 / By George Day
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Alubat Introduces the Ovni 490 Aluminum Expedition Yacht

The French builder of aluminum voyaging and expedition yachts, Alubat, announced this spring that the company was developing a new 50-foot raised-deck-saloon sloop designed by Mortain & Mavrikios. ...
On July 9, 2024 / By George Day
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New RM-Yachts 1380: Fast Blue Water Cruiser

Now here is something a little different coming from RM-Yachts who builds their plywood and epoxy boats in La Rochelle, France. That’s right, marine plywood and epoxy construction. ...
On June 26, 2024 / By George Day
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How top Heave-To on Your Own Boat

Heaving-to is a time-honored seamanship skill that sailors use to stop their boats when the need arises by backwinding the headsail. Yes, having-to is not something most skippers ...
On June 26, 2024 / By George Day
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Discovering Turkey’s Turquoise Coast

I’ve had the good fortune to have spent two summers cruising the southwest coast of Turkey from Kas in the east to Bodrum in the west and count ...
On June 25, 2024 / By George Day
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Abandoned Sloop Washes Ashore on Pensacola Beach

On May 30, Michael Barlow and his crew were delivering his new, to him, 45-foot sloop Lady Catherine II across the Gulf of Mexico from Key West to ...
On June 25, 2024 / By George Day
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Introducing the Aluminum, Dutch-Built Hutting 46 Explorer for World Cruising

Hutting Yachts is a boat building company from the old school. Based in Holland, the company was founded by Tjerk Hutting in 1975 and he is still chairman. ...
On June 19, 2024 / By George Day