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  Annapolis is For Sailors

  This week sailors from around the world and the sailing industry are all headed to Annapolis, Maryland for North America’s largest celebration of all there is to do ...

  On October 10, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
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  Caribbean Bound? Check Your Insurance

  As our friends and readers get set to sail south to the Caribbean and Bahamas this fall, we have heard repeatedly that they are getting some sobering news ...

  On October 4, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
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  U.N. Climate Report Asserts World’s Oceans in Deep Trouble

  I am a sailor. I have spent my life, both personally and professionally, in boats sailing the oceans of the world. In the last 20 years or so, ...

  On September 27, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
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  Weather Windows for Heading South

  As they say, you only get one chance to pick your weather and that’s when you are planning the departure for a long passage offshore. After three days ...

  On September 20, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
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  Boat Shows Are for Dreaming … and Buying

  This week in the U.S. and Europe is the start of the fall boat show season. In the U.S., the Newport International Boat Show kicks off today, Thursday, ...

  On September 13, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
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  The News This Week

  For sailors, cruisers and all of us who love the sailing and boating life, this has been a terrible week in the news. On the West Coast, 34 ...

  On September 6, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
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  Will Your Life Raft Inflate When You Need It?

  Every time I set off for an ocean passage, that thought inevitably creeps through my head as land disappears behind us and the great ocean rises up ahead. ...

  On August 30, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
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  Strange Encounters of the Pumice Kind

  It is not every day at sea that you run into a vast raft of pumice floating on the sea surface.  But that’s just what Shannon Lenz and ...

  On August 21, 2019 / By George Day
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  The Rules Rule at Sea

  A couple of springs ago, while I was sailing my 45-foot sloop back from the Bahamas to its home in Newport, RI, we found ourselves off the Bight ...

  On August 16, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
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  Jean Socrates Nearing Finish of Fifth Solo Circumnavigation

  As of Wednesday August 7, Jean Socrates is in the 307th day of her fifth solo circumnavigation and her second trip around the earth without stopping. She has ...

  On August 7, 2019 / By Sandy Parks