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Atlantic Hurricane Season Looming

With only a month before the Atlantic hurricane season begins on June 1, NOAA and the National Hurricane Center are predicting that 2020 will be well above average ...
On May 1, 2020 / By Sandy Parks
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Making Landfall in a Caribbean Closed by Coronavirus

Elena Manighetti and Ryan Osborne are yet another cruising couple whose long-planned world cruise has been interrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent closing of countries all ...
On April 24, 2020 / By Sandy Parks
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Messing About in Boats

This morning (Wednesday) a couple of things happened that are the new normal for living just about anywhere in the world. First, the U.S. administration decided that the ...
On April 17, 2020 / By Sandy Parks
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Hand Steering All the Way

It happened at 0200 on a dark and blustery night, as it always does. I was on watch alone. Rosie and the boys were asleep in their cabins ...
On April 10, 2020 / By Sandy Parks
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Hunkered Down in the Caribbean

The Caribbean is now basically closed and boats cruising there for the winter are hunkered down somewhere whether they like it or not and waiting for the pandemic ...
On April 3, 2020 / By Sandy Parks
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From the Far Side of the World

On Wednesday morning, we sent out an email blast to our readers and advertisers that tried to put a positive spin on what’s going on in the Covid-19 ...
On March 27, 2020 / By Sandy Parks
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Sailing World Disrupted by Coronavirus

We are sailing into a world that few of us have ever seen before, with events being cancelled, marinas closing and even ports and whole countries closing their ...
On March 20, 2020 / By Sandy Parks
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My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean

When we took off from home in Rhode Island to sail westabout around the world, we rented our house and then had to find a home for Willy ...
On March 13, 2020 / By Sandy Parks
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Dodging Squalls or Looking for Them

The last third of the passage from the East Coast to the Caribbean takes you through the Horse Latitudes and into the easterly trade winds and in these ...
On March 6, 2020 / By Sandy Parks
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Steering Without a Rudder

In modern cruising and racing sailboats with fin keels and spade rudders, the most vulnerable part of the whole boat is the rudder. Every year during the fall ...
On February 28, 2020 / By Sandy Parks

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