document.write(''); document.write("About Sailing
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Old salts remember the adage not to whistle aboard a sailboat for fear of bringing high winds. But if high winds or anything else causes you to end up the...
"); //1 document.write("A Home for Old Fiberglass Boats?
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We\'ve all seen them: the old fiberglass boats in the back of boatyards, shreds of an old winter cover wrapped around the jack stands, mottled wood on deck and piles...
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I\'m just back from a cruise along the Maine coast where we, naturally, ran into a good amount of thick fog among the islands. With one eye on the plotter,...
"); //3 document.write("Where Are the Hurricanes?
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\n\nTrue, it\'s only mid-August, but we had been warned to expect a particularly active season, and a lot of sailors have been waiting watchfully. Of course we\'re a long way...
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\n \nIt\'s the height of summer cruising in many areas, and many sailors love nothing more than anchoring in a quiet cove after a great day on the water. To...
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The details are still sketchy, but a sailing misadventure on Lake Michigan this morning has taken one and possibly two lives. In the middle of the night two men and...
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As a cruising sailor who races occasionally with my local yacht club, I\'m often amazed at how much money many racers spend on their boats. And maybe just a bit...
"); //7 document.write("Laura Dekker, 14, Gets OK for Solo Sail Circumnavigation
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OK, I admit it, I was secretly hoping the Dutch court would decide, as it did when Dekker was 13, not to allow her to set off on a solo...
"); //8 document.write("Sailor Not Saved by Tether
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\n\nAccording to a recent story in Sail World, a British sailor wearing a lifejacket, harness, and tether is lucky to have lived through a harrowing ordeal when she was washed...
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\n\nAlthough I\'ve written before rather making fun of iPhone apps that might distract sailors from the sailing experience (such as holding up your iPhone to measure wind speed by the...
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2010-08-31T09:01:44Z
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