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Readers Respond to Last Week’s Just Cruising Column on the Benefits of New Sails

Hi George, Agree completely on all points in your recent essay on purchasing new sails sooner rather than later and am glad you wrote about it. I am ...
On June 2, 2021 / By Sandy Parks
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Readers Respond to Anchoring Question: Are Two Better than One?

In Last week’s Just Cruising, I related a short yarn about deploying a second anchor while anchored in a river in northeastern Australia to settle our boat down ...
On April 2, 2021 / By Sandy Parks
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Readers Respond to Anchoring Question: Are Two Better than One?

In Last week’s Just Cruising, I related a short yarn about deploying a second anchor while anchored in a river in northeastern Australia to settle our boat down ...
On March 31, 2021 / By Sandy Parks
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Readers Offer Thoughts on Cockpit Protection Aboard Their Boats

In last week’s Just Cruising column, I posed the question of why more production cruising boats do not have hard dodgers or pilot houses as options, or even ...
On March 26, 2021 / By Sandy Parks
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Readers Offer Thoughts on Cockpit Protection Aboard Their Boats

In last week’s Just Cruising column, I posed the question of why more production cruising boats do not have hard dodgers or pilot houses as options, or even ...
On March 22, 2021 / By George Day
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Wind Generators: Readers Respond

Hi George, We had a KISS on our old boat and it was fine. Not like a helicopter taking off but not totally obnoxious either. New to us ...
On February 26, 2020 / By Sandy Parks
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Groundings

In last week’s Just Cruising I fessed up about running aground through a lifetime of sailing and cruising. We’ve hit bottom all over the world, not out of ...
On February 7, 2020 / By Sandy Parks
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UP FRONT – Groundings

In last week’s Just Cruising I fessed up about running aground through a lifetime of sailing and cruising. We’ve hit bottom all over the world, not out of ...
On February 5, 2020 / By Sandy Parks
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“Get the Grab Bag!”

The time to consider what you would need and want in your grab bag is when you don’t need it. The time is now. Of course, it may ...
On December 20, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
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Communications at Sea: Readers Share Their Knowledge

Communications for offshore sailors has improved dramatically in the last two decades so it is now possible to sail across oceans without losing email, phone and text service ...
On December 9, 2019 / By Sandy Parks