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TIN CANOES & OTHER MADNESS: The Genius of Robb White
How could I have lived so long without discovering this man? He is such an improbably entertaining writer, and all he wrote about, pretty much, is boats, the water surrounding them, and the life that...
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UNMANNED: First Robot Sailboat Completes Transatlantic Voyage
Who needs crew? Not the Sailbuoy Met, a 2-meter long sailing robot, which recently arrived in Ireland after sailing 80 days non-stop from Newfoundland. Created by a Norwegian company, Offshore Sensing...
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UNMANNED: First Robot Sailboat Completes Transatlantic Voyage
Who needs crew? Not the Sailbuoy Met, a 2-meter long sailing robot, which recently arrived in Ireland after sailing 80 days non-stop from Newfoundland. Created by a Norwegian company, Offshore Sensing...
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TIN CANOES & OTHER MADNESS: The Genius of Robb White
How could I have lived so long without discovering this man? He is such an improbably entertaining writer, and all he wrote about, pretty much, is boats, the water surrounding them, and the life that...
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2018 SOUTHBOUND LUNACY: Back to the Boat Show Solo Delivery Trip
This truly was touch and go. I’d had the boat hauled in early September to attend to a fairly discrete list of chores: 1) put on fresh bottom paint; 2) have some nice handrails sent by my friends at...
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JVD Airways: Fly Foxy to the Virgin Islands
By far the most interesting piece of news I picked up while wandering the show in Annapolis the last two days came from this man, Foxy Callwood, renowned owner of Foxy’s Bar on Jost Van Dyke in the...
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NICK SKEATES ON WYLO II: The Ultimate Barebones Cruiser and his Ultimate Dirt...
Dang it. I was going to write a post about the boats I test-sailed after the show in Annapolis, as has been my custom these past years, but I lost my freaking camera and have no pix for it. Ah, well....
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2018 SOUTHBOUND LUNACY: Annapolis to St. Maarten
What with swapping out old Lunacy for new Lunacy and last year’s jaunt down to Florida and back it’s been a few years since I pilgrimaged to the W’Indies for the winter. It’s past time to revisit old...
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2018 SOUTHBOUND LUNACY: Annapolis to St. Maarten
What with swapping out old Lunacy for new Lunacy and last year’s jaunt down to Florida and back it’s been a few years since I pilgrimaged to the W’Indies for the winter. It’s past time to revisit old...
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GOLEN GLOBE RACE: Back in the Atlantic, Attrition, Bending the Rules
There’s certainly been no lack of drama in this year’s “remake” of the first non-stop round-the-world Golden Globe Race of 50 years ago. As one would expect the attrition rate has been high, with...
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IN IRMA’S WAKE: Xmas/New Year’s Cruise from St. Maarten to St. Thomas
We descended en famille into SXM two days after Christmas to find a) the airport was no longer running out of tents and the regular terminal had (sort of) reopened; and b) the Christmas winds, as Don...
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INTEGREL GENERATING SYSTEM: Nigel Calder’s Frankenstein Comes Alive!
I wrote about this in my regular column in the current issue of SAIL (the February issue, which of course comes out in mid-January), but it’s something EVERYONE should know about, so I’m pimping it...
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HENRI DE MONFRIED: Cruising the Red Sea With Style and Purpose
One thing that never ceases to amaze me is that the literature of the sea is nearly as vast as the sea itself. It seems there are always new landfalls to make. Here for example we have yet another...
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GOLDEN GLOBE RACE: Jean-Luc Van Den Heede First to Finish in 212 Days; Mark...
This happened this morning at Les Sables D’Olonne. A really great achievement, to win a non-stop RTW race at age 73. HATS OFF to Jean-Luc!!! If you’ve been following you also know that Mark Slats, on...
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GOLDEN GLOBE RACE: Back in the Atlantic, Attrition, Bending the Rules
There’s certainly been no lack of drama in this year’s “remake” of the first non-stop round-the-world Golden Globe Race of 50 years ago. As one would expect the attrition rate has been high, with...
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IN IRMA’S WAKE: Xmas/New Year’s Cruise from St. Maarten to St. Thomas
We descended en famille into SXM two days after Christmas to find a) the airport was no longer running out of tents and the regular terminal had (sort of) reopened; and b) the Christmas winds, as Don...
View ArticleINTEGREL GENERATING SYSTEM: Nigel Calder’s Frankenstein Comes Alive!
I wrote about this in my regular column in the current issue of SAIL (the February issue, which of course comes out in mid-January), but it’s something EVERYONE should know about, so I’m pimping it...
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HENRI DE MONFRIED: Cruising the Red Sea With Style and Purpose
One thing that never ceases to amaze me is that the literature of the sea is nearly as vast as the sea itself. It seems there are always new landfalls to make. Here for example we have yet another...
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GOLDEN GLOBE RACE: Jean-Luc Van Den Heede First to Finish in 212 Days; Mark...
This happened this morning at Les Sables D’Olonne. A really great achievement, to win a non-stop RTW race at age 73. HATS OFF to Jean-Luc!!! If you’ve been following you also know that Mark Slats, on...
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IN MARIA’S WAKE: Cruising From St. Thomas to Puerto Rico
On flying into St. Thomas on the third Sunday of last month Clare and I were pleased to find Lunacy resting peacefully in her slip at the Crown Bay Marina in Charlotte Amalie. We were not so pleased...
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