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How Do You Sail and Cruise as a Couple?
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote the Just Cruising column on how we as a couple sail our boats and asked for comments. We got this thoughtful ...
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Should Sailors Be Certified? The Question Gets Revisited
Back in April, I wrote a Just Cruising column asking the simple question, “Should sailors be certified?” We got a ton of response from CC readers. Last week, ...
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Advice from Readers on Heaving To
In Last week’s Just Cruising, I explored heaving to aboard a cruising sailboat and mentioned some of the things that can go wrong and some tactics for making ...
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Cruising Boats Under $50,000 Rock: Just Listen to CC Readers
George In response to your article in last week’s CC, I have the following observation or comments. Our experience with cruising boats is lengthy. We have had a cruising ...
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Pros and Cons of Guns Onboard Continued
Last week in Up Front we ran several letters from readers responding to our commentary the previous week on whether or not it is a good idea to ...
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Pros and Cons of Guns Onboard
Dear George, We are 5 years into a circumnavigation from the U.S.A. Presently our boat is in Malaysia.I am a retired journalist who spent much of my life ...
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Spending Hurricane Season in Grenada, West Indies
With hurricane season fast approaching, it’s essential for cruisers and boat owners in the Caribbean to have a plan and time to execute it. The most popular option ...
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Big Changes at Blue Water Sailing: Launching new magazine, website and newsletter for multihulls enthusiasts; Publishing Blue Water Sailing quarterly
Blue Water Sailing’s publisher, George Day, announced today that the publishing company had expanded its focus on the multihull segment of the market. “This month,” Day said, “we ...
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Should Sailors be Certified?
In last week’s Just Cruising column, I posed the question of whether or not boat owners, skippers and sailors in general should be required to take some sort ...
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To PFD or Not to PDF, continued
In last week’s Just Cruising I reflected on how many sea miles I have sailed without wearing a life jacket. And, I noted that lately, in the age ...
