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Yacht Club Flag Etiquette—Time To Get Over Ourselves
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Read more: Yacht Club Flag Etiquette—Time To Get Over OurselvesIt’s time for yacht clubs to rethink and to stop projecting a stuffy last century vibe.
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What Is It With Yachties?
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Read more: What Is It With Yachties?John and I were working below, tied up to the dock in Hermitage—a place that doesn’t get a lot of visiting boats—when we heard a thump on the deck. Poking his head out the companionway, John was met with a bag of perch fillets, from fish caught in the bay that day, landed from a […]
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The Ethics Of Cairn Building
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Read more: The Ethics Of Cairn BuildingWe just got an e-mail from our friend Louis Nielsen. Louis has lived for over 20 years, mostly alone, in a remote cabin on the west coast of Spitsbergen. He is one of the last, perhaps the very last, people to make a living as a trapper in the Svalbard archipelago, some 500 miles north […]
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Q&A: Which Ensign?
5 CommentsReading Time: < 1 minuteFreeRead more: Q&A: Which Ensign?Question: I liked the beautiful twilight photo of your boat in Hare Bay, Newfoundland in this month’s Cruising World, and I showed it to a friend who’s been reading a manual on marine flag etiquette. He asked me what flag you’re flying on the backstay…and if the boat is an American registered boat from the […]
