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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
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Sea dogs Are the Best Dogs

In the olden days of coasting schooners, pinkey’s and smacks, the crew on board was often just, “a man, a boy and a dog.” The boy did all ...
On July 31, 2019 / By George Day
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Sargasso Weed Will Affect Atlantic Voyagers

Those of us who have sailed across the North Atlantic, particularly on the route from the Canary Islands to the Caribbean, and the route from Bermuda to the ...
On July 24, 2019 / By George Day
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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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