Experience: When Your Boat Ends Up Hard Aground
December 20, 2018
The kindly man who’d helped me select a new phone that morning slides me a scrap of receipt paper when I approach the Walmart electronics
The kindly man who’d helped me select a new phone that morning slides me a scrap of receipt paper when I approach the Walmart electronics
A. If a quick maneuver doesn’t spin her off, try reducing the draft by heeling her over with a backed sail and shifting some weight. B. In
”Uh-oh,” I heard myself say. “We’ve got a problem!” Running aground was the last thing on my mind that gorgeous July afternoon as I guided Tackful, our “new to us” Catalina Capri 25, into the harbor.
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As the first competitors eye their approach Hawaii, Stan Honey talks strategy.
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Today we’re celebrating the birthday of one of history’s greatest yachtswomen.
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Which modern synonym for “complain” originally was used to describe a ship that tended to round up into the wind due to a bad design
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