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Making Your Own Rope

(Practical Boat Owner) – Here is a great way to impress your friends. Mark Shiner demonstrates how to take your lines and turn them into rope you can ...
On September 9, 2021 / By Sandy Parks
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Search on for Missing Sailor

Eighty four year-old Peter Ashby of Toronto, Canada has been missing since last Thursday and a search began after his 27-foot sailboat, Resolute, was found washed ashore in ...
On September 9, 2021 / By Sandy Parks
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Island Hopping in Greece

Tony and Tessa Cross have spent many years sailing the Aegean and in the Greek Reporter have written about what it is like to live aboard. While the ...
On September 2, 2021 / By Sandy Parks
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It Takes a Village – Working to Eliminate a 250% Increase in Boating Fees in California

(Trade Only Today) – A proposed 250% increase in recreational vessel registration fees has been eliminated by a coalition of boating groups working together. The group noted that ...
On September 2, 2021 / By Sandy Parks
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New Report on Tropical Storms by the United Nations

(Inside Climate News) – A United Nations climate report by the Intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change offers the most thorough evaluation of the physical science associated with global ...
On September 2, 2021 / By Sandy Parks
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Maine’s Rubber Ducky

(NECN.com) – The supersized rubber ducky that mysteriously appeared in Belfast, Maine last week has just as mysteriously disappeared. A note on the harbormaster’s bulletin board noted the ...
On September 2, 2021 / By Sandy Parks
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Hurricane Ida From Space

Hurricane Ida blew ashore in Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane on the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet of France captured this ...
On September 2, 2021 / By Sandy Parks
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Hurricane Henri Makes Landfall in New England

This past weekend Hurricane Henri, downgraded to a tropical depression moved across New England making landfall in areas that hadn’t seen a hurricane in 30 years. See images ...
On August 26, 2021 / By Sandy Parks
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14 Year-Old Completes Singlehanded Voyage Around Britain

(Exmouth Journal ) – Katie Mccabe, a 14 year-old from Topsham, Devon, UK has just completed a 1,600 mile voyage around Britain. Sailing a 26-foot wooden boat, Falanda, ...
On August 26, 2021 / By Sandy Parks
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Every Cruiser’s Nightmare

Australian cruisers David Frost and Kris Adams of SY Taipan experienced every cruiser’s nightmare. In this article for noonsite.com they explain how a medical emergency cropped up while ...
On August 26, 2021 / By Sandy Parks