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BVI Spring Regatta 2007- Day Two: Grueling and Great

The sun shone most of the day, there was no rain and winds from 20 – 30 miles an hour with rough seas. ...

One Man’s Garbage

Remember when a scurrilous journalist minutely examined Bob Dylan's trash, hoping to gain insights into his hero's life, or at least something juicy about...

Bah Humbug on the Holidays!

I hate to admit it but I’m glad the holidays are over. Christmas trees are hell on a boat. Their dry, brittle ...

Cruising Tales: How to Properly Handle your Charter Guests

If your charter guests are honeymooners, forget everything in this article.  To them everything is wonderful, even if you put some frogs in their bed.

Bashing to New Zealand

I love Kiwis but they put their country in a stupid place.I actually emailed Helen Clark, their prime mistress, and asked, “What were you guys thinking?”

Swan Song Part III: The end of Reconstruction – the beginning of an Adventure

In Parts I & II, I described how we purchased and reconstructed our classic Roughwater 58’ trawler, Swan Song, in the British Virgin Islands. ...

Tortola’s Sailor from the Purple Palace

The only redeeming quality of old age is the memories you collect far in the past. We are authored from the lives of so...

St. Lucia Update – Nov 06

"We'll be happy at 30 entrants!" said St Lucia Yacht Club's Christmas Festival Organizer, ex-commodore and J24's aficionado Mike Green when asked by All...

Karla-Omayra – A New Training Ship for the Netherlands Antilles

Name-giving ceremony of a unique ship: the Ro-Ro freighter Thor Scan became Karla-Omayra. The Maritime school NAZ (Nederlands-Antilleaans Zeevaartinstituut) of the Netherlands Antilles has a ship of her own

Cruising with Charlie: Marooned

George and Mable were from a small town in Ohio and had spent long winter months leafing through glossy sailing magazines dreaming of chartering...

Viewpoint: IRC – One Rule For All

Ever since men started sailing boats they tried to race each other but when it became a sport it was soon realised that...

Boat Buying Guide: Brokers and Lawyers and Contracts, Oh My!

The agreement to purchase a boat can be as simple as a handshake deal, or as complicated as a roomful of brokers, attorneys, and bankers can make it

Resorting to Resorts

Normally I avoid resorts. This is, believe me, fine with most resorts. It saves me being asked to leave. I mean, why anchor off...

Michael Green: St Lucia’s Silver Fox of Sailing

He’s a native of Ireland, raced extensively in the UK, and cast off on a round-the-world cruise. But St. Lucia-based sailor Michael Green...

The Worry Nets

SSB radios are wonderful things. Example: should you be far offshore and surrounded by utter bliss... you can still turn-on and tune-in your radio...

Cold Whether

It is time for Wild Card to leave New Zealand. The hurricane season to the north is over. Southerly winter gales are beginning to...

NEWS – M4700 Catamaran joins Footloose Sailing Charters

Caribbean News from around the region from June 2006

Asparagus – What Is?

You’re sailing into Leinster Bay in the Virgin Islands. There are no other boats. Later you sail up to Norman Island to anchor in...

Record Participation at 2nd Annual Heineken Culebra Intl Regatta

Doubling its yacht participation, dubbed by a title sponsor and drawing the attention of hot racing yachts from the U.S. mainland, the 2 nd...

The Salt-Stained Shutterbug

Fatty Goodlander hates cameras. They are expensive, fragile and hard-to-operate. He especially hates digital cameras because... well, all-of-the-above to the tenth power
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