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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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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 ...
On June 26, 2019 / By George Day
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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 ...
On June 19, 2019 / By George Day
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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 ...
On June 12, 2019 / By George Day
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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 ...
On June 4, 2019 / By George Day
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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 ...
On May 22, 2019 / By George Day