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Retirement to Bahamas: Anchor Surprise
SailBlogs &bull Feb 12, 2012
Mike and Judy have been sailing for some 25 years. We have dreamed for years about retiring and sailing to the Bahamas and Caribbean. We are about to realize our dream! I've spoken about the challenges and complexity of anchoring previously in my blog; suffice it to say that safe, secure anchoring is part art, geometry, physics and a lot of luck. We find what looks like a nice little hole among several boats including two which we know from cruising. We drop the hook and back down on it to set it. The holding is very good and we… Full Story »
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Leeway II: Meandering around the Abacos
SailBlogs &bull Feb 12, 2012
Since Derek and Sue had to return home I've been on my own on the boat but still have the company of Laurence and Joan on Tranquility. It's nice to have a buddy boat when you're single-handling. Both boats had to sit at Green Turtle Cay until the Thursday after Derek and Sue left in order to get a decent weather window for moving out the Whale Cay Channel. We left Green Turtle just after noon which was still very close to low tide but it was rising. If we grounded going out the channel eventually the tide would lift… Full Story »
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IN THE MED / Wind, Wind and More Wind
TripSailor &bull Feb 12, 2012
No, not the beans but the Tramontana, the wind that sometimes blows in this part of the world. It blew continuously for five days. Our wind instruments recorded a maximum gust of just over 48 knots and a fairly steady F6-8. The noise in the boatyard had… Full Story »
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DreamCatcher's Adventures: Marsh Harbour
SailBlogs &bull Feb 12, 2012
The day started at five a.m. with five short horn blasts (danger) - the large trawler next to us was dragging down on a catamaran behind us! s/v Curieuse saw that they were dragging and were trying to get their… Full Story »
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This IS retirement: Northerly Slog
SailBlogs &bull Feb 11, 2012
After a few days in Zihuatanejo and the day after the Super Bowl I weighed anchor and set out for points north. I did a 35 mile run over to Lazaro Cardenas, which is a stinky commercial port but has a nice flat anchorage in a cul de sac right off the ocean. After a very flat and calm night I pulled out of there for the next anchorage (Caleta De Campos) about 40 miles up the coast. I pulled into the anchorage that afternoon and was not happy with the huge ocean swells making their way into the anchorage.… Full Story »
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WilsonSailingChronicles: Update on Marooned
SailBlogs &bull Feb 10, 2012
Hey all, well we have our diagnosis and we need to rebuild or replace the engine. We are waiting for quotes right now. Suffice to say we will not be sailing to Ecuador on Three Sheets. We do plan to still fly there to spend some time with Emma and Alia et al… Full Story »
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Caribbean Cruising / Union Island
TripSailor &bull Feb 10, 2012
We plotted our course and headed off with the wind from the NE.This meant sailing as close to the wind as possible with a full main and a reefed genoa as we pushed along with speeds up to 6 knts.We had to tack to gain position for the final tack to Union Island and just ahead of us as we made our final tack was a Norwegian boat.Red rag to the bull in me, I concentrated on flying our sails as efficiently as I could.We were catching him, inch my slow inch.It took half an hour to draw along side… Full Story »
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420 Anchor size
Sailboat Owners &bull Feb 10, 2012
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Namani at Sea: Sailing again!
SailBlogs &bull Feb 10, 2012
After having Namani moored at the Balboa Yacht Club for a few weeks now (which included a trip back to Germany), we decided that we may as well do our remaining boat jobs somewhere at anchor. So we slipped our mooring this morning and took off for Las Perlas,… Full Story »
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Kirralaa: Back in the Basin
SailBlogs &bull Feb 10, 2012
I have been a bit slack with the blog for a few days. WE left Port Hacking with the South Wind and had a lumpy trip so pulled into Sydney Harbour for the night then onto Broken Bay the next… Full Story »
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Caprice Cruise: Chilly Start
SailBlogs &bull Feb 9, 2012
We hoisted sail just outside the ElJobean markers at 8:45 am. Arrived St James city at 4:45 pm. Steady easterly winds of 15-20kts all day brought us here in record time (for us). We even were able to navigate all the way down the ICW under sail It was a sweatshirt jeans windbreaker and(gasp) socks day. Other than that, totally uneventful. Jack had to make a few adjustments to the dinghy connections. The… Full Story »
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So, what exactly resides in our goop locker?
Boat Bits &bull Feb 9, 2012
An obituary of note, in the poor baby department, and I agree 100% with this poll! John Muir's "How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive: A Manual of Step-by-Step Procedures for the Compleat Idiot" has, over the years, been one of… Full Story »
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Sailboat Diesel secrets - Do you know these Smoke Signals?
Sail-World &bull Feb 9, 2012Did you know that that color of smoke from your small sailboat diesel engine could signal a line wrapped around your propeller? Or water in the fuel? Or too much oil in your engine? When you first start up your sailboat diesel engine, look over the stern. Do you have a strong, clear flow of exhaust water? Do you see smoke coming out of the exhaust tube? Other than an initial puff or two, your engine should send out clean exhaust without any smoke.… Full Story »
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Smoke Signals
Daily Boater &bull Feb 8, 2012
Marine Diesel Secrets - Do You Know These Smoke Signals? Did you know that that color of smoke from your small sailboat diesel engine could signal a line wrapped around your propeller? Or water in the fuel? Or too much oil in your engine? When you first start up your sailboat diesel engine, look over the stern. Do you have a strong, clear flow of exhaust water? Do you see smoke coming out of… Full Story »
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Weedy seabed could have caused boat disaster
Sail-World &bull Feb 6, 2012A weedy seabed may have been the cause of an experienced Victorian crew's narrow escape when their yacht grounded in severe weather on rocks at East Kangaroo Island, just to the east of Flinders Island in Bass Strait.Bruce and Sharon… Full Story »
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Jay's tale of a mis-adventurous rescue
Sail-World &bull Feb 4, 2012Circumnavigating cruising couple Jay Barry and Carol Martini from Gandalf spent time in one of many long range cruisers' most popular spots, Langkawi in Malaysia. Jay, who numbers among his many qualifications being a do-nut gourmet, tells this tale, which, as he says, includes all the best things and worst things about the life of a cruising sailor.Our time at Telaga Marina in Langkawi was as quiet as the legendary 'month of Sundays' until 8:50 a.m. Knock Knock Knock. 'Who's dumb enough to knock on our hull at this ungodly hour?' Everybody knows better.' Important it turns out to be… Full Story »
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Landing
The Invisible Workshop &bull Jan 23, 2012
The wind had increased until we were over-pressed. Pinching and spilling wind we were getting along, but not very comfortably, so we anchored to double reef the main and mizzen. With the boat readied we found that the hook had fouled.… Full Story »
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Something of a conundrum...
Boat Bits &bull Jan 22, 2012
A freedom of the press workaround, Cartel enforcers, and, there's always more to the story... I'm curious about something and I wonder if any Boat Bits readers have a clue as to the answer... Last night I noticed an anchor… Full Story »
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The Island adventure cruise ...
Zensekai II &bull Jan 16, 2012
Every year for an unknown amount of time, at least by me, there is a regatta around the island of Alameda. Last year we I wanted to go but there was talk of rain. So there was no trip for me. Some went, but not me. I watched them go through the mud flats from our Apt. The mud flats are an area that at low tide there is no water just mud. Except for a small area about 24 ft across that is barley deep enough for a shallow draft boat to fit through. It is famous for that.… Full Story »
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Is $175 affordable?
Boat Bits &bull Jan 14, 2012
That guy wanting to be liar-in-chief seems to be off to a good start, the future is right there waiting for us, and how the real working world and profits collide... Money does not represent such a value as men… Full Story »
