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Weather Routers Add Huge Value for Passagemakers

Last week, I ran a short piece on the new and not-so-new weather-routing software that many offshore sailors are using these days. The article got a lot of ...
On October 2, 2020 / By Sandy Parks
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Can We Sail to the Caribbean & Bahamas This Winter?

For the last six months, as we have mostly all hunkered down during this time of coronavirus, it has been hard to make travel plans or even social ...
On September 18, 2020 / By Sandy Parks
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Jimmy Cornell’s Next Adventure

Veteran offshore sailor and prolific author Jimmy Cornell turns 80 in 2020 and what better way for a man with over 200,000 sea miles under his keel to ...
On September 11, 2020 / By Sandy Parks
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The Boat Shows Are Cancelled. What Now?

Last week we heard that the Annapolis sail and powerboat shows in October have been cancelled for 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This follows the cancellation of ...
On August 28, 2020 / By Sandy Parks
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The Road Less Traveled

We quit our day jobs, pulled our kids out of regular school and moved onto our Mason 43 Clover when we were 40 and the boys, Tim and ...
On August 21, 2020 / By Sandy Parks
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Dog Days

Perhaps the most enthusiastic sailor aboard our last cruising boat, a Jeanneau 45.2, was our young yellow Labrador Badger. He started sailing as a puppy and loved everything ...
On August 14, 2020 / By Sandy Parks
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Hunkering Down for the Storm

The forecast from the French Met service in New Caledonia, South Pacific, was for a deep low to form to the north of the island that would develop ...
On August 7, 2020 / By Sandy Parks
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Eight Bells for Cruising Legend Larry Pardey

This week we lost an old friend and a man, in partnership with his wife Lin, who inspired literally a generation of dreamers to live out their dreams ...
On July 31, 2020 / By Sandy Parks
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Beneteau & Jeanneau to Close U.S. Factory

Boy, that was a hard headline to write. But it is true. Groupe Beneteau announced that the company was in the process of putting their large boat building ...
On July 24, 2020 / By Sandy Parks
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A Weather Eye

On Tuesday of this week a mighty line of thunder squalls rolled through Newport, RI, where we live. The sky grew incredibly dark, then the boomers began, first ...
On July 17, 2020 / By Sandy Parks

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