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Read more: Broken Skipper—What We Did Wrong
Phyllis discusses what they would do differently in the future to handle a life-threatening situation like John’s hiking accident.
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Read more: The Changing Face of BrazilThe Baia de Camamu still offers quiet anchorages in beautiful surroundings. But the number of pleasure boats has increased incrementally in recent years. Will Brazil find a way to ensure all can enjoy and benefit from the popularity of the Baia without losing its essential magic?
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Read more: The Last Fisherman in RameaIt’s strange. I have never had any interest in recreational fishing. When other voyagers talk about the cool gear they have that always hooks a fish on an ocean passage and how good the catch was to eat, all I can think of is the mess on deck. It’s not that I don’t like to […]
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Read more: We Live in Rapidly Changing TimesThere was an age, not all that long ago in the grand scheme of things, when technological progress was a slow, measured affair. Revolutionary new developments in materials science, in hull design, in manufacturing processes and in many other engineering fields were few and far between. The “state of the art” progressed at a pace […]
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Read more: Ocean Navigator MagazineThose of you who read AAC regularly will will know that I’m no fan of the current state of the sailing magazine industry. Just how many charter-in-the-Virgin-Islands-with-cheesecake, so-we-can-sell a-bunch-of-advertising, articles do we need? Boring, boring, dull. But there is at least one shining exception to the above jaundiced view: Ocean Navigator magazine, which has always […]
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Read more: The New Brazil—And the OldAfter experiencing the new Brazil—the city of Santiago—Colin and Lou head out to find the old Brazil—up the slower, quieter Rio Paraguacu.
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Read more: The Risks of Falling Overboard at SeaBefore we can come up with good and effective crew overboard prevention systems, we need to think about and clearly understand the risks we are dealing with, which I examine in this chapter.
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Read more: We Should Focus On Staying Aboard, Not RecoveryThere are countless articles, books and courses that focus on recovering a crew overboard, but what really matters to the short-handed crew offshore is making as sure as humanly possible that a crew overboard situation never happens in the first place—we need prevention, not cure. This chapter introduces this Online Book and that basic concept.
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Read more: What Worked and What Didn’tThere’s nothing like a good long voyage to sort out a boat, for better or for worse, and after 3700 ocean miles between the Canaries, Senegal, Cape Verde and Brazil, Colin reports on what worked and what didn’t.
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Read more: Is It a Need or a Want?A fundamental fact is that, even if you are rich, you can’t have it all in an offshore voyaging boat and that goes double for the rest of us with more modest means. So the most important step in selecting a boat that will be successful for you is to identify the things that you really need. In this chapter I give you an easy to use and apply test to do just that.
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Read more: There are Many Ways to Celebrate ChristmasPèlerin and her crew spend the Christmas at sea, destination Brazil, with arrival at Salvador on January 4th of a new year.
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Read more: A Better Chain PlateWhile thinking about the Adventure 40 I have worried most about two areas: chain plates and the rudder. Let’s look at a way to fix the former right.
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Read more: When the Flag Drops…Before every ocean passage, there comes a final moment, when all of the food, fuel and water is aboard, the boat is ready to go and the goodbyes have been said. All the planning, scrutiny of the weather and last minute checks have been carried out, and there’s no excuse to linger a second longer—it’s time to go.
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Read more: The First Thing To Go Is Always The PlanWhen cruising, flexibility is a must, and Colin shares how a problem with the engine on Pèlerin led to a change in their planned landfall at the Cape Verdes, which led to a wonderful stop at Marina Mindelo.
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Read more: Rose Blanche, Newfoundland—The End Of The RoadThough road-served, Rose Blanche still has an out-of-this-world feeling.
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Read more: Adventure 40 FAQ—The BoatAnswers to recurring questions that come up in the hundreds of comments to our articles on the Adventure 40.
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Read more: Landfall Cape Verde IslandsColin uses their trip from Dakar to the Cape Verdes as a good example of how to plan and execute a safe and enjoyable passage.
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Read more: A Mariner’s 14 New Year’s ResolutionsI have got to the age where I’m comfortable with my bad habits and so the standard New Year’s resolutions hold little interest for me—I’m simply not giving up whisky* or chocolate. But as a voyaging sailor, I know that forgetting the basic rules of seamanship can be the slippery road to disaster. And even after […]
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Read more: Burgeo, Newfoundland—What? A Canal?Burgeo, Newfoundland—bakeries, beaches, and…a canal?
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Read more: John’s Thoughts & Photos, December 2012“Fun Tax” I got an email from yacht designer Ed Joy, about something else, to which he added the following: I agree with the sentiments in your hull form article. Racers having great fun scampering downwind on their sleds are dreading the “fun tax” that must be paid when it’s time to harden up the […]
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Read more: One Anchor or Two?John answers the question of whether to use one anchor or two.
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Read more: Landfall in AfricaColin and Lou find a warm welcome at Dakar. But where are all the other yachts that used to visit?
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Read more: Spoiling The Ship For a Ha’penny Worth of TarBefore any long passage I conduct a careful examination of all of our standing and running rigging, checking particularly for chafe and any sign of corrosion – better to do it well in advance than wait until the last minute when there’s no time to effect repairs. So before we left the Canaries I went […]
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Deadman’s Cove, La Hune Bay, Newfoundland—Hankering For An Anchoring
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Read more: Deadman’s Cove, La Hune Bay, Newfoundland—Hankering For An AnchoringDeadman’s Cove has it all: a sheltered anchorage (in most conditions), challenging hike, stunning scenery, and a private swimming pool.
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How We Will Build The A40 At A Great Price AND Deliver Great Quality
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Read more: How We Will Build The A40 At A Great Price AND Deliver Great QualityTo understand how much it costs to build a boat we need to understand boat size and that has nothing to do with length overall.
