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Author:Heather Steinberger
When planning SAILING Magazine’s first green issue, the editors and I thought it would be fun to highlight 10 of the greenest sailing destinations around the world. Then we ran into a problem. No one defines green quite the same way. ...
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Author:Ralph Naranjo
In a switch, a family daysailer is passed up to the parents, where she gets a second life as Merlot by Ralph Naranjo
Merlot, a favorable blend of vineyard attributes, may seem like a fitting Cape Dory metaphor, but to a sailor set in his ways,...
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Author:Bob Pingel
We break down the budget to get your boat sailing this spring and tell you what can be put off until next year
More than ever, sailing is a crucial part of a sound mental health plan. At the same time, many boat owners find themselves with a...
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Author:Betsy Crowfoot
Match racing is taking sailing by storm, thanks to a new women’s event in the 2012 Olympics. Betsy Crowfoot checks it out, and has the bruises to prove it. Vanity got the best of me, when I was asked by one of the world’s top-ranked women’s...
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Author:Staff
New computer design software, Dacron-like fabrics better able to hold their shape, more durable laminates, advancements in membrane technology and cheap offshore labor are combining to offer cruising sailors an unprecedented range of options when...
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Author:Heather Steinberger
A brief charter cruise of the Sea of Cortez gives a couple a glimpse of its spectacular sailing potential
When we entered the San Lorenzo Channel, it was as if someone had taken aim at the cockpit with a fire hose. Mike, standing at the wheel in...
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Author:Peter Baker
High-tech but home-built is one sailor’s solution to the perfect multihull
Kevin Cook sat at a picnic table in the small public park on the Galesville, Maryland, waterfront and spread out his treasures—building plans, a half-model and sections...
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Author:John Kretschmer
A group of sailors book around-the-world plane tickets and charter four exotic places in 34 days Stepping off the plane at Tahiti Faa’a International Airport in Papeete I finally let my guard down. Warm southeast trade winds swept the tarmac as I...
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Author:Matthew Jones
Will global warming change the way we sail?
Climate change is on the tip of everyone’s tongue these days. From postmen to politicians and from your local deli to your local disc jockey, everyone and their brother are talking about climate...
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Author:Bill Paige
For 20 years the Indiana Sailing Association has been training high school students to become sailors, and better citizens
Part of teaching is the sharing of knowledge and experience by those instructing. This is exactly what Geoff Barrow and the...
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Author:Staff
As the fallout from the most massive oil spill in the United States continues to be ascertained, Gulf Coast sailors can take steps to protect their boats and the environment with the help of a new website launched by BoatUS. The website,...
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Author:Craig Ligibel
Old friends journey by catboat into the heart of the Everglades
A lot can happen when a band of geriatric sailors try to defy the elements and logic by sailing their 15-foot Marshall catboats from one Florida coast to the other in water so shallow...
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If it sails like a goat, smells like a goat and has been in 25 Mac races, it must be an… Island Goat
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Author:Staff
The exclusive club of veteran sailors celebrates 50 years of camaraderie
The Tuesday after the start of the Chicago-Mackinac race is traditionally a day for celebration on Michigan’s Mackinac Island. Sailors are reunited with their families,...
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Author:Amy Stapleton with photography by Bob Grieser
Yearning to feel—at least for a few days—like a rock-star sailor, one woman heads to J World and gets a feel for adrenaline-fueled learning
Another gust upward of 20 knots pushes the starboard rail of our J/80 into the waters of the...
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Author:John Kretschmer
A storm-tossed Atlantic leaves John Kretschmer and crew fighting–and forereaching–to make landfall
Sailing across the Atlantic should never be underestimated. It’s a long way from one side of the pond to the other. Even if the weather...
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Author:Staff
The year after the centennial anniversary race, the Chicago-Mackinac offers another chance at the record
ast year’s 100th running of the Chicago-Mackinac Race was the biggest ever. More than 430 boats crossed the starting line of the centennial...
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Author:Heather Steinberger
We offer up some of the best inland lakes in the country to trailersail
Sailors admittedly have a tendency to dream big. Imaginations catch fire at the thought of undertaking a circumnavigation, milk-running to distant tropical islands,...
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Author:Brook Berth
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Author: Jessica Westleigh
There’s no need to leave your four-legged crew behind when you leave the dock While sitting aboard the plane on our maiden voyage to lands unknown to us, both my partner Matthew and I sat dreaming of two very different things. Visions of classic...
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Author:Susan Maffei Plowden
After an extensive restoration, this classic Herreshoff 12½ is daysailing and racing again Reaching across the bay in a 16- to 18-knot southerly, the bow dips into a passing powerboat wake and we take some spray onboard, soaking the three of us in...
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