Browsing Tag cruising

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  What are you calculating when you take the square root a sailboat’s waterline length and multiply it by 1.34?   Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner will ...

  On August 7, 2019 / By George Day
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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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  What is St. Elmo’s fire?   Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers and will win a one-year subscription to ...

  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
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  What are the primary currents that makeup the North Atlantic Gyre?   Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers and ...

  On May 22, 2019 / By George Day
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  Does a windvane self-steering device respond to the “true” or “apparent” wind as it steers a sailboat?   Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected ...

  On May 15, 2019 / By George Day
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  What do you do when you “box a compass?”   Send your answers to cruisingcompass@bwsailing.com. A winner will be selected randomly from the correct answers and will win ...

  On May 8, 2019 / By George Day
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  A Bevy of Multihulls on Display in France

  The largest multihull (“multicoque” in French) boat show in Europe if not the the world got underway yesterday, Wednesday April 24, in the Marina at the resort community ...

  On April 24, 2019 / By George Day
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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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  Coast Guard Aids Woman Sailor with Head Injuries

  The Miami Herald reported this week that a woman sailing near Key West Florida suffered a head injury while underway and required assistance. The woman was sailing aboard ...

  On February 6, 2019 / By George Day