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