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CAPTAIN’S LOG | APRIL 2015
KEEP IT SIMPLE I don’t know about you, but I can’t work on my cars’ engines anymore. I open the hood and all I recognize are the caps for topping up fluids and checking the oil. The rest of the engine...
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CAPTAIN’S LOG | MAY 2015
KIDS AND SAILING One of the highlights of our five-year cruise around the world with our two sons Si and Tim happened one night on the passage south from Gibraltar to the Canary Islands. Si was 14 and...
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CAPTAIN’S LOG | JUNE 2015
10 PHASES OF PASSAGEMAKING This summer will mark 20 years since Rosie and I and our boys sailed back into Newport R.I. to complete a five year 36,000 mile circumnavigation. Along the way and many...
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CAPTAIN’S LOG | JULY 2015
CUV LIBRE? With the announcement last winter that the U.S. and Cuba were going to start normalizing the relationship between the two countries, all of us who have been gazing fondly across the Florida...
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CAPTAIN’S LOG | AUGUST 2015
Chartering Solves Winter Although I hate to dredge up the memories of the last winter in the Northeast U.S. where we live and publish BWS, I will. It was brutally cold. It snowed and snowed and snowed....
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CAPTAIN’S LOG | SEPTEMBER 2015
Cruising Boats Evolve As we were putting together our annual Preview of New Monohulls for 2016, it struck us just how new and different many of the new cruising boats are that will be presented to the...
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CAPTAIN’S LOG | OCTOBER 2015
Fitting Out Essentials | When we bought Lime’n five years ago, our intent was to sail the boat south to the Bahamas and Caribbean from Newport R.I. for four or five seasons and then assess what to do...
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CAPTAIN’S LOG | NOVEMBER 2015
Beginnings | Every fall, on both coasts of the U.S. and Canada and in Europe, sailors step onto their cruising boats, let loose the docking lines and point their boat’s bows south toward the sun. But,...
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Captain’s Log November 2015 Every fall, on both coasts of the U.S. and Canada and in Europe, sailors step onto their cruising boats, let loose the docking lines and point their boat’s bows south toward...
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CAPTAIN’S LOG | APRIL 2016
BWS Turns 20| It is hard to believe that 20 years have passed since Rosie and I, with the help of our two sons Si and Tim, launched Blue Water Sailing. In April 1996, we rolled out the first edition....
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