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Unplugged

About 20 miles east of our home port of Newport, RI there is a cove that has over the years become one of our favorite summer anchorages. Tarpaulin ...
On July 19, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
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Foggy Days Along the Coast

Spring and early summer are the foggy months along our coastlines and in the Great Lakes. It has to do with warm air flowing over cold water to ...
On July 10, 2019 / By George Day
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Who is the Skipper Aboard Your Boat?

Last weekend, I was part of a fun Blue Water Seminar held at the Essex, CT Yacht Club. The event was put on by Essex native Bob Osborn ...
On June 26, 2019 / By George Day
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Department of Redundancy Department

The Sail-o-Mat 740 windvane self steering device we had on the back of our Mason 43 Clover was so well-designed, so well-built that it had never failed us ...
On June 19, 2019 / By George Day
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Heaving to in Heavy Weather

As good luck would have it, I’ve never had to heave-to at sea due to storm conditions for the simple reasons that either the storms have been blowing ...
On June 12, 2019 / By George Day
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Cuba Closed to Cruisers Again

On Tuesday of this week, the U.S. Treasury Department announced that it was restricting travel to Cuba for American citizens and specifically mentioned that it was prohibiting travel ...
On June 4, 2019 / By George Day
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To Catch a Fish

Whenever we are going somewhere in open water on our boat we always have a fishing line trolling off the stern. We’re fish eaters so foraging in this ...
On May 22, 2019 / By George Day
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Should Cruisers Carry Guns?

I grew up learning to shoot and have hunted a bit with rifles and shotguns. And we have cruised in some of the world’s least developed areas, countries ...
On May 15, 2019 / By George Day
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Days at Sea

I don’t know about you, but there are times in this busy, highly connected information age we live in, that I get the sense that we are collectively ...
On May 8, 2019 / By George Day
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You Could Win a Brand New Excess Catamaran from Beneteau

I am just back from the huge multihull show in the south of France, where I had a chance to catch up on all that is new and ...
On May 1, 2019 / By George Day

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