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Sweet Ride
Some of the best gifts come in small packages. So it was when my sister-in-law asked me and my husband if we would race her Herreshoff 12½ in the Annapolis Yacht Club’s Wednesday night series. Sidelined while recovering from back surgery, she couldn’
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Eight Bells: Don Street Jr.
Donald Street Jr., the indefatigable sailor and writer whose charts and guides to the Caribbean quite literally opened the islands to charterers and cruisers, died in April in Glandore, Ireland, where he lived with his wife, Trich. Just 93 years old,
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Book Review: Stikky Night Skies
The first edition of Stikky Night Skies, published in 2003, was among the books we carried when we went cruising full-time in 2008. I thought it might be a fun way to teach our kids, then 8 and 12, more about the joys of stargazing. It did all that,
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PRESIDENT GARY DE SANCTIS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF WENDY MITMAN CLARKE MANAGING EDITOR LYDIA MULLAN WEB EDITOR EMME HURLEY CRUISING EDITOR CHARLES J. DOANE OFFSHORE EDITOR ANDY SCHELL CHARTER EDITOR ZUZANA PROCHAZKA TECHNICAL EDITOR ADAM COVE CONTRIBUTING EDI
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36 Years with a Cal 24
Own a sailboat? Pete Van Hamersveld didn’t even know how to sail. Plus, who’d be crazy enough to pay slip fees? The year was 1988. Pete was 29, newly married, and looking for a hobby to replace hang gliding. Something safer, he thought. Something he
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Changing the Horizon
Jamie Brown had always nurtured a dream of sailing a transatlantic. He thought he’d have to wait until he retired, and then he’d spend ages preparing whatever boat he had chosen before actually doing the thing. But it all happened a lot sooner than t
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High and Dry
Our 1979 Cheoy Lee 41, Avocet, was anchored in Morro Bay during the worst storm system the state of California had seen in two decades. It had been two weeks of what seemed to be nonstop rain and high winds while we patiently waited for some sort of
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Windelo 50
I was aboard Joule, the latest version of the Windelo 50, twice before I ever sailed her—the first time at the Cannes Yachting Festival in France last fall, and the second at the Miami International Boat Show in February. She had sailed transatlantic
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Xquisite 30 Sportcat
The new Xquisite 30 Sportcat looked like a drag racer, tugging at her dock lines at the Annapolis sailboat show. At 30 feet, she was by far one of the smallest boats in the water, but this carbon speedster looked like she’d give the big boats a run f
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Elan Impression 43
Sometimes you draw the long straw with a boat test and get the chance for a multi-day delivery to really put the boat through its paces and see it in a variety of conditions. I was excited to hop on Elan’s brand new Impression 43 for the trip from An
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Bigger Isn’t Always Better
It would be easy, observing the sea change in fiberglass production boatbuilding in the U.S. over the last several decades, to feel a little blue about how many builders have not survived the industry’s ups and downs. But seen through the lens of sma
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Sailing Lessons from a Small Boat
You might say I learned to sail on my family’s 32-foot Pearson Vanguard. But my most memorable lessons came after we dropped anchor, when my father taught me in our Dyer Dhow sailing dinghy. Half a century later, I still remember his precise instruct
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Sails Like a Girl, Lives Like a Wolf
You might have watched the 40-foot Gray Wolf win last year’s Race to Alaska (R2AK) under team We Brake for Whales and thought it impressive that for the second time, Jeanne Goussev stepped onto the dock at Ketchikan first. But only after that victory
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Rarefied Airs
It’s sometimes hard to wrap your head around all that’s evolved since 1851, when a syndicate of owners from the newly minted New York Yacht Club brought their schooner America to the UK for a summer of racing and returned with the trophy that would b
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A Refreshing Kind of Club Culture
It’s late May in Sweden, the sun is shining, and boats are launching. Sweden, with its thousands of miles of spectacular coastline and DIY culture, has a wonderful—and wonderfully unpretentious—sailing scene. Mia and I have a Norlin 34 called Spica t
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Elbow Room
Ora Kali had pushed hard to get through New York Harbor and the East River to Long Island Sound, and our nerves were jangling after eight hours of listening to the three-cylinder Westerbeke 13 engine pound away. We picked up a municipal mooring in Po
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Day One Damage COntrol
The first day of any charter means a mountain of responsibilities for the skipper and extended periods of hurry-up-and-wait for the rest of the crew. It can be a long, boring day for friends or guests hanging around, sweaty and anxious about starting

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