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History Repeated: Tender Trouble Times Two
Related tags: Passage Notes | Dinghy | Article by Ben Zartman
“History,” a timeworn saying briefly assures us, “repeats itself.” Unfortunately for the Zartmans, this was the case with their dinghy delimmas.
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May 28, 2013RTW Day 187: Hotel Nereida has overnight guestsby Jeanne SocratesJust went up on deck - and disturbed a tiny gaily-coloured bird - a goldfinch. One of a pair, it turned out... they investigated all around on deck and in the rigging... and finally chose the protection of a fold of the mainsail near the mast for their overnight roosting place as the sun was setting.
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May 28, 2013RTW Day 159 - Hove to in strong conditions...by Jeanne SocratesAn increase in wind and worries about the GPS unit cause Jeanne Socrates to heave to off the coast of Australia.
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May 17, 2013History Repeated: Tender Trouble Times Twoby Ben Zartman“History,” a timeworn saying briefly assures us, “repeats itself.” Unfortunately for the Zartmans, this was the case with their dinghy delimmas.
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May 6, 2013Editor's Log: Sweet Reliefby Mark PillsburyForget the measly crocus and robin. My harbinger of spring is when the water comes on once again at the dockside spigot.
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April 8, 2013Teachers in Arms: Science Lessons Aboardby Wendy Mitman ClarkeThe main saloon of our friends’ Beneteau 461 Oceanis, Chere, is typical of the type: bright, spacious, airy, heavy on the feng shui. The perfect place, in other words, for entertaining guests and enjoying commodious living aboard and cruising. I’m pretty certain Beneteau’s interior designers didn’t consider that these same attributes would also make it an ideal science lab, but there you are.
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March 20, 2013Cruising Commodities Rememberedby Ben ZartmanTiny pleasures and niche solutions, absent or unavailable now for them back in the States, remind these cruisers of their time away.
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March 1, 2013Pearls Around the White Continent Part IV: Home, Sweet Homeby DEBORAH SHAPIRO, PHOTOS BY DEBORAH SHAPIRO AND ROLF BJELKEIn Part IV of this five-part series, Deborah Shapiro and Rolf Bjelke, on board their 40-foot steel ketch, Northern Light, return to places on the Antarctic Peninsula that they first visited in 1984. Their pleasure turns to dismay, however, when they become witnesses to the profound affects brought to the region by climate change. Click here for previous installments.
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