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  Top Tips for a Panama Canal Transit

  Behan Gifford in Yachting World offers tips on preparation, costs and much more for a stress-free and successful Panama Canal transit.   Cape Horn sailors and ditch diggers ...

  On February 21, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
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  boot Dusseldorf Celebrates 50 Years of Being the Greatest (boat) Show on Earth

  Don’t capitalize it and don’t pronounce it like the footwear. It’s “boot” and it simply means “boat” in German. It’s a spectacle that every boater must see at ...

  On February 15, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
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  The Rewards and Risks of Changing Your Lifelines to Synthetic Rope

  Lifelines on a cruising boat are kind of like insurance; you don’t think about them much until you really need them. The vast majority of sailboat owners have ...

  On February 6, 2019 / By Administrator
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  Sailing Santa of the Caribbean

  By Erin Carey (s/v Roam in the Caribbean)   Is September 2017, right after hurricane Maria struck the Caribbean, Mark and Tracey Duckett sailed from Martinique to the ...

  On January 29, 2019 / By George Day