Phyllis and I wish everyone the very best for this holiday season. Here’s hoping the world will be back to some semblance of normal by this time next year. Or maybe a better new normal. Read on for more on that.
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We just rolled out a new and much improved comment system with many cool features.
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Back in February we rolled out (and I wrote about) the first phase of our 2020 improvements to this site, which focused on simplification, improved readability on phones, and speed. That was all good, but it quickly became apparent that the next thing needed was a damned good housecleaning and re-categorization of our content. Here’s what we did.
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Rational or not, it’s starting to feel like the world is coming seriously unglued, what with COVID-19 and the associated economic disruptions, not to speak of some spectacular market volatility.
So here’s what are we going to do about that at AAC.
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We just made a bunch of changes to this site. Here’s why, and why the new site is so much better.
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In case we didn’t manage to cure your insomnia with Part 1, we now have Part 2. The good news is that this is the last one that’s relevant for members, and now we can all get back to something we actually care about: offshore voyaging.
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With all the recent hullabaloo about internet privacy, it’s time to update our privacy policy. Here it is in plain old English with some interesting stuff mixed in to keep it from being boring and it might even help you decide what to do about practices on other sites.
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One of the very best things about this site is the wisdom and experience that you, our members, share in the form of comments, as well as the fact checking you do. And by far the majority of the time you are reasonable and self-policed—thank you. However, there have been a few exceptions, so please [...]
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Sometimes people ask us why we opted to write Online Books rather than downloadable eBooks in PDF or ePub (Kindle and iThings) format. Here’s the answer: It’s a Moving Target One of the most wonderful things about offshore sailing is that we never know it all. In fact, the more we learn and the more [...]
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For some years Attainable Adventure Cruising Ltd has offered consulting services and advertised them, in rather a low key way, on this web site. But now we are finding that the demands of this web site are really taking more time than we are comfortable with—something must go. And that something is the consulting. Coincidentally, [...]
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