Tips, Tricks & Thoughts Comes Of Age
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A follow-up, with some significant changes, to our article on a failed Spade anchor.
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Which hardware and software should we use for weather downloading and analysis? Lots of good stuff out there. Here’s how to choose.
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Very few boats have a good automated bilge pump and flooding alarm system. Let’s fix that.
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When an anchor many of us have come to trust over two decades fails catastrophically, it’s time to think about why and what we can learn.
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Seven posts including a couple that are particularly actionable.
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It’s comforting to believe that weather forecasts are always right, but we all know that’s not true. Here’s how to assess the chances that a given forecast will be wrong in a bad way.
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Phyllis and I will be away on vacation (holiday) next week, RV camping with my daughter and her family.
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John explains one of the most important criteria for selecting an offshore voyaging boat, and one of the most ignored.
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Colin and Louise serve up a master class on delivering an older and long-unsailed boat through difficult waters and adverse weather, and even have fun doing it.
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So far in this series of chapters we have been looking at the benefits and drawbacks of the renewable options. Now let’s pull it all together.
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Can we replace diesel fuel generation (main engine or separate) with wind, solar and/or hydrogenerators?
Yes, but there’s stuff to know to avoid wasted money and disappointment.
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Phyllis and I just finished getting ready for Hurricane Lee. All going well, we will only get tropical storm-force winds here, but who knows, particularly since we are in the dangerous semicircle. We could also get some pretty nasty surge out of this, but AAC World Headquarters is up a
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It’s tempting to think that the more cool stuff a boat has, the better she is for cruising, but that approach can make the boat slow and uncomfortable.
Eric explains how to tell when adding gear has gone too far.
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Nine posts this month: Some tips, some tricks and some thoughts.
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