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| 09 Mar 2010 |
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NEW = not under command, adrift, disables, abandoned...
REELS= restricted in their ability to maneuver, too large, towing...
CATCH= constrained by their draft, must remain in deep channel...
FISH= fishing vessels with nets or trawls set (not rod and reel sportsmen)...
| Captain Jack Klang | 0 |
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| 09 Mar 2010 |
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Every captain needs a co-captain standing by ready to take over whenever needed. Finding an intelligent, able, and willing candidate may be as close as the your galley or seated next to you in the cockpit. Yes, your wife is the perfect co-captain candidate.
It is important to have another person on board that has knowledge, skills, courage, and experience to handle emergency situations when you (the captain) cannot.
Statistics show that more men than women fall overboard and drown. Men are more likely than women to suffer heart attacks. More men are injured on sailboats than women.
| Captain Jack Klang | 0 |
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| 09 Mar 2010 |
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Most people have heard something of Plastiki by now. Being heir to a name like Rothschild confers an automatic celebrity and resources, and it’s not just any old eco stunt that David de Rothschild has in mind. The up-front premise of Plastiki is that single-use plastic is evil and that sailing a 60-foot catamaran across the Pacific—with 68 percent of the boat’s buoyancy derived from a matrix of 12,500 recycled plastic bottles—will dramatize that message and capture hearts and minds.
| Kimbal Livingston | 0 |
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| 09 Mar 2010 |
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The recession may have diminished salaries and expectations, but it hasn’t killed the dream of boating for many people.
Recognizing that reality, marine publisher Mark Bunzel and boat designer and builder Sam Devlin have teamed up to offer an affordable option for boat ownership: a kit boat starting at $3,900.
| Deborah Bach | 0 |
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| 09 Mar 2010 |
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New York’s East River is home to ferries, tankers, tugs (pushing and towing) and all sorts of commercial traffic. The safety of these working boats depends, to a significant degree, on their ability to communicate with each other while underway. Their captains are required to monitor channel 16, and so too should all pleasure craft. However, many pleasure boaters are unaware that nearly all commercial vessel VHF radio communications, including some calls to pleasure craft in their area, are NOT heard on channel 16.
| Messing About in Sailboats | 0 |
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| 09 Mar 2010 |
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I found this video while looking around on You Tube the other day and thought I would pass it along. My wife and I learned how to do this maneuver last summer, but this video demonstrates how to do it better I think. We did it the way the books explain it, at least I thought so.
| Boat De Jour | 0 |
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| 09 Mar 2010 |
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I ran across a photo the other day and it reminded me about the first time I took my mother sailing. You see, I’m normally quite dashing. In fact if you imagine Errol Flynn in the movie Captain Blood, thats me… normally. Its just in this particular photo I resemble something closer to, oh I don’t know, maybe an old shriveled up, gray haired gnome. And not the cool kind that live in the forests of Norway, oh no, I’m talking about the kind that have lived through too many harrowing times. So you can see why this photo got me to thinking about that day.
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| 09 Mar 2010 |
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It’s often struck me that owning a boat is a bit of a rollercoaster ride, only less predictable.
This past week is a prime example. Marty and I have been working madly on the boat to get it ready for its first outing, a trip to Blake Island with our friends Aaron and Nicole this weekend. The forecast looked stinky, but we didn’t care. We’ve been itching to take Three Sheets out since we bought her in September. A little rain wasn’t going to stop us.
| Deborah Bach | 0 |
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| 09 Mar 2010 |
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One of the primary benefits of cruising is going interesting places and doing fun things there, and there may be no place that is at once as interesting and fun as a hosting city during the Olympic games.
Vancouver is alive with the buzz of fans and athletes, a special place at a special moment in its history. As a child, I was here for Expo ‘86, and though I don’t remember much, in some parts of my mind this has all taken on the aspect of some long-term extension of that experience, with everything new and exciting also seeming somehow familiar and reassuring.
| Scott Wilson | 0 |
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| 09 Mar 2010 |
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We break down the budget to get your boat sailing this spring and tell you what can be put off until next year
More than ever, sailing is a crucial part of a sound mental health plan. At the same time, many boat owners find themselves with a significantly reduced budget for the sailing season. The good news is that there are some corners that can be cut at fitting out time, but the trick is know what they are and how long you can put them off.
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| 09 Mar 2010 |
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As the truly sick person that I am, I seem to be always thinking about two boats into the future. Please tell me I’m not the only one! Anywho, recently we attended the Minneapolis Boat Show and fell in love with Island Packet Yachts latest model, the Estero. Crap! This is creating problems already and we won’t even be ready for one of those for another 10 – 12 years.
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| 09 Mar 2010 |
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Walking down the dock in the dark, I noticed something moving in the water—a school of fish swimming together in a perfectly round circle.
Marty and I watched, transfixed, as what appeared to be a shrimp descended on the group and seized on two of the tiny fish, which lit up like lightbulbs as they were caught.
“It’s like our own private nature show,” Marty said incredulously.
| Deborah Bach | 0 |
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| 09 Mar 2010 |
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Eight case in our series. You know what to do.
Rule 28.1, Sailing the Course
When a boat’s ‘string’ lies on the required sides of finishing marks or gate marks, it is not relevant that the string representing her track, when drawn taut, also passes one of those marks on the non-required side.
| Racing Rules of Sailing | 0 |
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| 09 Mar 2010 |
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With classic American racing yachts, there’s more than one meaning to the phrase, bring’em back. Any wood boat that’s been out there a while will surely have been “brought back” one time or more through restoration procedures that we can reasonably hope are unreasonably fanatical.
There’s also: Bring’em back home.
| Kimbal Livingston | 0 |
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| 09 Mar 2010 |
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After a week of great north breeze, the Miami heat showed up again today killing the northerly and making conditions perfect for a light seabreeze. We waited on shore an extra hour and then ghosted out into a 4-6 knot easterly. The sailing was just beautiful all things considered, but a 20 degree lefty in the middle of the first two-mile beat spoiled our day.
| Andrew Campbell | 0 |