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Read more: How To Stop Killing Your Engine With KindnessRunning your engine at low power settings can slowly kill it. Here’s what to do about that. This could save you a bunch of money and aggravation.
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Read more: Lin and Larry Pardey Biography, A Great ReadI just read Herb McCormick’s biography of Lin and Larry Pardey, As Long as It’s Fun. Actually, it would be more accurate to say that I devoured the book, or maybe to be more accurate still, the book consumed me for several hours. Here’s a short review.
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Read more: Controllable Pitch Propellers (CPPs)So far in this Online Book we have learned about the fundamentals of engine and propeller efficiency and, in the last chapter, we looked at a way to make our existing engines a bit more efficient. In this chapter Matt explains a much better way to get the very most out of every drop of diesel fuel.
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Read more: Is There Life After Full-Time Cruising?After 20 years of full-time live-aboard cruising, John and Phyllis are making the transition to part-time voyaging. Phyllis shares how intense a transition this is.
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Read more: The Ultimate Guide to Using Iridium Handsets and GO!The whole process of buying, installing and working with a satellite phone can be downright intimidating and very frustrating. John explains how to make the whole process easy. The results of 15 years of experience with Iridium devices.
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Read more: Going Cruising—Being Realistic About You, 4 TipsSo much of writing on getting out cruising focuses on boats and gear. But, in fact, there is something even more important to think about…you.
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Iridium GO! Review—6 Myths Busted and a Purchase Recommendation
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Read more: Iridium GO! Review—6 Myths Busted and a Purchase RecommendationFew pieces of new gear have created more buzz in the offshore cruising community than the Iridium GO!. And there have also been few pieces of gear that have been surrounded with as many myths and as much confusion as the GO!. John busts the myths and analyzes the benefits of buying an Iridium GO!.
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Cruising On Less Than $15,000/Year, Including The Boat—What It Takes
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Read more: Cruising On Less Than $15,000/Year, Including The Boat—What It TakesMick and Bee have cruised for 15 years and over 70,000 miles on less than US$250,000 all told, including the purchase price of their gaffer, Hannah. And they have numerous northern high latitude cruises under their belt. Mick writes about what it takes to make live-aboard cruising possible on a tight budget.
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Read more: Cruising With LessThere’s a whole genre of books and articles on how to buy a boat and go cruising on very little money. But really, how often do you meet people who have actually made it work for any length of time?
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Read more: 4 Great Tips From a Professional MeteorologistWe got our hands on a real live professional meteorologist, who is also an offshore sailor, and wrung 4 great tips out of him that will make your voyages both safer and more comfortable.
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Read more: Mooring Your Dinghy While Ashore, Made EasySome of the most fun we can have while cruising is while exploring ashore, but what if there is no dinghy dock? How do you make sure your dinghy is safe while you’re gone? Here’s an easy-to-deploy mooring you can build that solves the problem…and it will save your back too.
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Read more: “Eala Bhan” Sails Home, Part IIIColin continues his tale of a fall voyage to Scotland, complete with snug loch anchorages, a gale in confined tidal waters, and a fast canal transit, wrapping up with a summary of the Boréal 55 based on a good real-world test—lots more to learn and enjoy.
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Read more: Keeping Safe From Chart InaccuraciesHere’s one simple tip that can save you a huge amount of grief…and possibly your boat:
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Read more: “Eala Bhan” Sails Home, Part IIThere are few trickier places to sail than the waters surrounding the British Isles and when you throw in fall weather that goes double. Colin puts his decades of experience in the area to work to make it look easy—we can all learn a lot about coastal passagemaking from this article on the maiden voyage of the first Boréal 55.
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Five Tips For Choosing Weather Information to Believe…And Pay For
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Read more: Five Tips For Choosing Weather Information to Believe…And Pay ForThere’s a lot of great weather information out there these days…and a lot of hype too. Here are some tips that will help you tell the difference and decide what’s worth spending your money on.
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Read more: Sealskinz Gloves, Take TwoFor cold weather sailing we figure we have foul weather gear, the clothes to go under it, as well as boots and hats, pretty much sorted out, but gloves have remained a challenge…until now.
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“Eala Bhan” Sails Home—The Maiden Voyage of The Boréal 55
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Read more: “Eala Bhan” Sails Home—The Maiden Voyage of The Boréal 55After seven years of building great expedition sailboats, Boréal have put everything they have learned into the new 55. And no one is better qualified to tell you about this new boat, that we can all learn from, than Colin, who supervised her build.
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Read more: Marine Electronics Recommendations—CommunicationsRecommended, VHF radios, satellite phones, AIS, Navtex and Weather Fax equipment for cruising boats
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Read more: Marine Electronics System RecommendationsUp to this point in this Online Book we have been writing about good navigation practices. Now let’s turn our eyes to the cool electronic toys we all love. And since I’m an electronics technician by trade and have spent most of my working life in high tech fields this is going to be leading edge stuff and way cool!
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Two Tips to Make Your First Ocean Passage as Skipper Safe and Fun
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Read more: Two Tips to Make Your First Ocean Passage as Skipper Safe and FunThe skills required to become a competent skipper of an ocean crossing yacht are not that difficult to learn, but there are a couple of things we must do to attain that goal.
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Read more: The Golden Globe Race 2018The Golden Globe Race 2018 is on and AAC will be there. This post is one of the most exciting we have ever published, with news that will make a real difference to you, the readers of AAC…don’t even think about missing this.
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Read more: Q&A: Should I Get a Watermaker?John answers an interesting question on the relative benefits of installing a watermaker…or not.
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Read more: A Confession From (Not So) Intrepid Northern ExplorersA little tip that can make a big positive change to your quality of life when voyaging in cold climates.
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Read more: A Simpler Modern BoatChristopher looks at the gear choices he and Molly made when they fitted out their Boreal 47, in light of their just completed 30,000 mile voyage to some of the world’s most challenging cruising destinations.
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Read more: Port-Aux-Basques, Newfoundland—A New Cultural ExperienceThough we’ve visited Grand Bank before and we’ve spent numerous nights tied up in Port-aux-Basques, that doesn’t mean we’ve experienced all these places have to offer!
