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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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