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Safety Tethers and Hooks are Not All Alike

We’re soon going to be in the spring and early summer migration and offshore event season and so our thoughts turn to the gear we’ll need to be ...
On March 19, 2025 / By George Day
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Explore the Spanish Mediterranean on a Bareboat Charter

For North Americans, when the topic of chartering in the Med comes up, most of us tend to think of Greece, Croatia and Turkey. They are all wonderful. ...
On March 19, 2025 / By George Day
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15 Boats Start Mini Globe Race Around the World

Now here’s something completely different – racing singlehanded around the world in a 19-foot sloop from Antigua to Antigua via Panama and the Cape of Good Hope. That’s ...
On March 12, 2025 / By George Day
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Mustang Introduces Award Winning Atlas PFD That Does It All

Mustang Survival’s latest inflatable PFD, the Atlas 190 DLX Hammar incorporates everything the highly respected marine safety company has learned about PFDs over the last four decades. This ...
On March 12, 2025 / By George Day
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Mindbender

What is a broad seam on a sailboat and where would you find one? Send your answers to george@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from the ...
On March 12, 2025 / By George Day
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The Nav System to Replace Chart Plotters?

Many of us who have dedicated chart plotters on our boats or multifunction displays (MFDs), also have charting and routing apps on out phones and tablets that we ...
On March 5, 2025 / By George Day
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As Expected, DOGE Downsizes NOAA’s NWS Professional Staff

Every morning across the country, weather professionals employed by the National Weather Service, the forecasting arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, launch weather balloons into the ...
On March 5, 2025 / By George Day
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Lessons learned from a Vigorous Day Sail That Went Wrong

In 30 years of boating along the west coast of Wales in the United Kingdom, Steven Copeland had never experienced a serious incident and certainly not one that ...
On March 5, 2025 / By George Day
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What to Expect from the Coast Guard under New Administration

As with so much else with this new Presidency, the flurry of activity and the barrage of executive orders and high-level firings, creates a kind of fog for ...
On March 4, 2025 / By George Day
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IMOCA Team Malizia Names Cole Brauer Co-Skipper for 2025

What a couple of years it has been for young American sailor Cole Brauer. First, in 2023, she made a very seamanlike qualifying run solo across the North ...
On February 26, 2025 / By George Day