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Columnists/Full and By
Author:Bill Schanen
A friend of mine, a yachtsman of the motorboat persuasion, told me he was going ahead with his summer cruise even though the fuel bill would exceed $7,000. The same cruise last year would have cost him $4,000 in diesel fuel. “It hurts, but the...
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Columnists/Afloat
Author:David Liscio
The mere thought of launch day can give some sailors the jitters while others lapse into a smiling transcendental state as they contemplate the event. For most, launch day involves a single boat, whether it means backing the trailer down a ramp, or...
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Columnists/On the Wind
Author:Chris Caswell
I can remember it as clearly as yesterday, but it was actually in the early 1960s. “Caswell,” he said, “you may think that sailboat racing is all there is in the world. But they don’t.” His bushy eyebrows eased from the frown as he...
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Columnists/Full and By
Author:Chris Caswell
I can remember with exceptional clarity the first time I used an electric anchor windlass. I’d just taken delivery of a 35-foot cruising boat that had this magical device and I stood on the foredeck looking at it warily, as I’d heard tales of...
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Columnists/On the Wind
Author:Chris Caswell
I thought the U.S. Coast Guard had it in for me. Every time I’d go out on a boat test, I’d get pulled over and interrogated after I returned to the harbor. We’d spend a pleasant afternoon sailing around on some new boat, but as soon as we...
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Columnists/On the Wind
Author:Chris Caswell
This is a sailing story of friendship spanning two decades, and it makes you realize that, like so many things in life, paths cross and re-cross in the most unexpected ways. It’s about three couples linked by a beautiful shell and an even more...
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Columnists/Full and By
Author:Bill Schanen
I’ve never abandoned ship. I’ve never pulled myself into a life raft. I’m not expert on those subjects, but I do know there is a fair amount of disagreement over when or if to take those steps. About half of the gruesome toll of 15 deaths in...
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Columnists/Full and By
Author:Bill Schanen
Won’t you ever get sick of it?” The question came from a college friend I see infrequently who finds it hard to believe that after all these years I’m still devoting big chunks of my life to sailing. My honest answer: Yes. I have been...
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Columnists/Afloat
Author:David Liscio
When I was a boy in upstate New York, we’d sit on the front porch and watch the summer boat traffic on the Mohawk River, mostly tugs and barges or cabin cruisers, but occasionally a sailboat would come along with its mast lashed horizontally atop...
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Columnists/Afloat
Author:David Liscio
When I was a boy in upstate New York, we’d sit on the front porch and watch the summer boat traffic on the Mohawk River, mostly tugs and barges or cabin cruisers, but occasionally a sailboat would come along with its mast lashed horizontally atop...
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Columnists
Author:David Liscio
When I was a boy in upstate New York, we’d sit on the front porch and watch the summer boat traffic on the Mohawk River, mostly tugs and barges or cabin cruisers, but occasionally a sailboat would come along with its mast lashed horizontally atop...
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Columnists/Full and By
Author:Bill Schanen
SAILING’s hometown is as pretty a seaport as you’re likely to see. Port Washington, on the Wisconsin coast of Lake Michigan, is a small city (population 11,000) of many hills. The highest of them is topped by two historical icons, a church whose...
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Columnists/Full and By
Author:Bill Schanen
I was concentrating more on the remarkable aubergine hue of the wine in my glass, a muscular Chilean blend of carmenere, cabernet and merlot, than on the NBC news program on the tube. It was the opening segment, before the first commercial touting a...
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Columnists/Full and By
Author:Bill Schanen
In the annals of sailors lost at sea—and that is a long and terrible history of shipwreck and death—I don’t think I’ve ever come across a crueler story than the sinking of the 35-foot sailboat Jason. Three sailors died, two of them in a...
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Columnists/Notes from a Sailing Life
Author:John Kretschmer
Somewhere near the middle of the Atlantic I realized my world was right again. Quetzal was slaloming before a feisty trade wind, skidding down rolling seas like a Gold-medal skier who’s had a bit too much to drink, in control but making it...
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Columnists/Notes from a Sailing Life
Author:John Kretschmer
Somewhere near the middle of the Atlantic I realized my world was right again. Quetzal was slaloming before a feisty trade wind, skidding down rolling seas like a Gold-medal skier who’s had a bit too much to drink, in control but making it...
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Columnists/Full and By
Author:Bill Schanen
We were sure he had all the right stuff to be on the cover of our Safety at Sea issue. At the helm on a breezy day on San Francisco Bay, braced at the edge of the cockpit, two gloved hands on the wheel, steely eyes looking forward, the fellow in the...
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Columnists/Afloat
Author:David Liscio
Even if you despise acronyms as I do, as sailors you undoubtedly recognize that ASA stands for American Sailing Association and EPIRB for Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon. But I’d bet my CQR anchor that the LGBT reference to a new...
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Columnists/Afloat
Author:David Liscio
Even if you despise acronyms as I do, as sailors you undoubtedly recognize that ASA stands for American Sailing Association and EPIRB for Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon. But I’d bet my CQR anchor that the LGBT reference to a new...
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Columnists/Full and By
Author:Bill Schanen
Imagine if Brett Favre wrote a Web log during football games, blogging his thoughts from the New York Jets sideline on a BlackBerry when the defense was on the field: “The offensive line they’ve stuck me with couldn’t block my mother-in-law....
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