All At Sea Editorial by
Cap'n Fatty Goodlander
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The Twin Realities of The Atlantic Rally for Cruisers
It is the largest (race? rally? cruise?) organized transoceanic sailing event ever staged, with 234 vessels participating in 2007 and nearly 5,000 overall during the intervening 26 years.
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Dem Backtime St John Dazes Aint So Old Me Son
In the late 1970s I sailed away from America—in search of my future. I wasn’t merely in search of myself, but of my people as well.
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Selling Out to the Media Moguls
I was recently contacted by a Major International Marine Publication, and asked to write a series of articles to attract the younger set.
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Begging Sea Gypsy Style
If you are a shiftless, truth-impaired, uneducated, contemptible, lazy, jobless sea gypsy like myself—you’d better be good at something.
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Buying Euro Antiquities for only Pennies on the Pound
One of the ways we finance our watery world travels aboard Wild Card is by cheaply acquiring rare & precious STUFF in exotic locations, and then reselling that stuff for mega-bucks in London, Paris, and the alleys of New Jersey.
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The Myth of Going to Windward
If you are a cruising sailor, I suggest you sit down. I have some shocking news to convey to you. It is not just your boat that doesn't sail to windward - none do ...
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Reality and More Strangeness
I often say in relationship to my vessel, "Wild Card is a modest boat, with much to be modest about." This is, in reality, an exaggeration. My vessel doesn't deserve to be spoken of quite so highly...
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Adapt or Die Laughing
Having grown up aboard an old wooden schooner, the sight of a crowd unexpectedly gathered around my boat as I return to a marina always gives me a jolt. Is my vessel sinking? Is my tired-looking spouse throwing my Viagra into the water?
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Down with Sea Gypsies
I've spent the last six months writing a book on how to buy a boat inexpensively, fix it up at a reasonable cost, and sail it around the world on a modest budget. It seemed to me that such a book was needed ... not everyone agrees.
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The Last Cruise of the Quest
Jean and Scott Adam were knowledgeable, personable, highly-experienced cruising folk. We hit it off immediately when we first met them.
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High Life in the Lowlands
I'm currently in Amsterdam and attempting to teach our ten week old granddaughter Soku how to sail. This isn't going too well ...
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Notice to Mariners that The World is Overpriced
Here's the bottom line: the 'administration costs' of world cruising are getting so expensive that, soon, only rich people will be able to afford it.
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Yacht Racing and Character Building
What little I remember of the 70s, 80s, and 90s in the Caribbean is pure regatta madness. Picture watching the America's Cup through a psychedelic kaleidoscope - that's my entire recollection.
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The Ironic Moronic Truth of Fat Money
I never thought I could generate (even) this much income. But, evidently, lots of folks are willing to pay me good money to stay away.
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The Dreadful Dance of the Decades
Damn! Is there no end to the humiliation of growing old?
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The Grand Plan with the Grand Kid
Great News! Our daughter is pregnant. She is the first Goodlander ever to plan it! I mean, she intended to get preggers!
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The Good Bad and Ugly on Marine Scribes
I have a confession to make - against all logic and commonsense - I enjoy meeting other writers, especially marine ones.
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Taking Meds to Sail the Med
We are now officially in the Mediterranean Sea. We know this because it is crowded, expensive, and the people are as cold as the water.
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In Memoriam
It has been a difficult month for long term VI sailors—we’ve lost some of our best.
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The Agony of Our Agents
More and more international ports are demanding cruising yachts use a "mandatory" agent to clear through customs and immigration. The reason for this bureaucratic shift is simple: it facilitates graft and streamlines corruption.
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Heavy Weather Advice for Light Weight Sailors
I'm an international weather wimp. The funny thing is that many sailors think I know something about heavy weather because I've ocean-sailed for the last five decades and circumnavigated a time or two. I don't.
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The Nitty Gritty on the Red Sea
The nitty gritty is that it is, indeed, gritty. As in "grit your teeth" gritty. Deserts, I know now from horrifying personal experience, are made up of small bits of sand, both fine and coarse.
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Rudy Thompson Rest In Peace
I just pulled into Israel, checked my email and learned my buddy Rudy Thompson had died.
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Group Think Me Thinks Not
My wife says I'm anti-social. That's baloney. I just hate people. I mean, people as in plural. I don't mind individual jerks - only groups of jerks. I don't like mobs either, and I consider two people a mob.
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The Lighter Side of AIS
The biggest advance in marine electronics in recent history is the Automatic Identification System - commonly referred to as AIS.
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Why Do People Live on Land
While the exact numbers are difficult to come by—often the victims are ashamed to publicly acknowledge their hard circumstance—many people live ashore.
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The Horrible Truth About Hauling Malaysia Style
I often have to scold my wife Carolyn for being too distrustful. "Gee, honey, isn't it swell the local shipyard is having a super-duper special on hauling this month?"
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Fat Dreams
Last night I dreamt a Sci-Fi movie in which brave teen-ager Earthlings hijacked the mammoth invasion transports sent by a demented, power-mad civilization far, far away
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The Ghosts of September
Exactly 20 years ago, at the height of Hurricane Hugo, I lost my previous boat Carlotta. A 68 foot schooner named Fly Away lived up to her name and started doing just that in 150+ knots of wind.
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The Hard Truth About My Stiff Pole
The sad truth—I’ve been traumatized by my spinnaker poles. Part of the problem is, of course, that I’m too cheap.
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On Sailing and Slinging Ink
Freedom is my lifelong drug-of-choice. That's why I'm a sailor, and that's why I'm a writer. I want to be the freest man in the world.
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Charles Thomas - Retired Caribbean Charterer
The key to writing a Caribbean marine column for 30 years is—don’t panic! The story will come. I believe in fate. My job is not to seek but to recognize. And to relax while doing so.
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Hot Oil Massage, Fatty Style!
Fatty Goodlander is a confirmed sail-boater, an avid stick-boater and an ardent blow-boater who, naturally, spends most of his life upside down in the bilge-working on his diesel engine.
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Showboating at the Boat Show
I should never leave my vessel. Every time I do, things go wrong in a major way
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Gybing Into Nirvana
Fatty visits a Retreat
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The Joys of Shipboard Electrics
I believe a loving God gave sailors wind—and Satan gave them 12 volts D.C. to balance things out
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Another Sunrise in Paradise
Next to me is another human being. She breathes in and she breathes out. I watch. And watch some more
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Rigging the Facts on Freudian Sloops
You might have noticed that different sailboats have different rigs. We’ve been arguing about which rig configuration is best.
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The Appalling Apia Marina
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Bums of the Indian Ocean
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The Sea Gypsies Guide to Global Economic Melt Down
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VI Sailors International
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The A Thru Z of AIS
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Asia Will Amaze Ya!
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Our Cell Phones Inform Us We Are Dumb
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Me and My Guitar
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SEX and the SINGLE HANDER
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Wild Card Takes a Whack!
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Poverty and the Radar Screen of Life
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St. Valentine's Day Sea Gypsy Style!
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