All At Sea Editorial by
Cap'n Fatty Goodlander
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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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The #1 Boat Maintenance Task
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St. Bartians Everywhere!
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Out-Gifting Polynesians
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Head Aches - There are no Plumbers at Sea
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The Agony of Dried Snot
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The Strange Reality and Obese Myths of Minerva Reef
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Two Grumpy Old Farts Spew
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Zen and the Art of Sailing while One Hand Claps
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The Annual Sea Gypsy Hangi of New Zealand
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Woe is Me! Or I got dem Shipyard Blues Again!
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Mildewy Truth of Disk Drives and Dry Boxes
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Deviant Decadent DVD Dunces
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Electronic Overview by a Notorious Cheapskate
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Amid the Dirtdwellers
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Returning to the Nest - A Sea Gypsy Revisits his Favorite Island
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Bah Humbug on the Holidays!
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