Cap'n Fatty
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September 21, 2009Dealing the Wild CardStrange Places Tune in to see the latest video of Cap'n Fatty and Carolyn Goodlander spinning yarns about their years of cruising in Dealing the Wild Card. And don't forget, Fatty's "On Watch" column appears monthly in CW's print edition.
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April 15, 2008Nine Cats, Many LivesA zany flotilla marked by shiny multihulls and sailors' boundless enthusiasm helps to make old territory feel new once again. From our "Consider a Catamaran" special in our July 2007 issue
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April 26, 2013Sea Siren: the Ultimate Liveaboard MotherA young Cap’n Fatty and his mother, Marie Goodlander, the Sea Siren, were right at home aboard their schooner Elizabeth. At 94, Marie proves she still can handle the helm when she joins Fatty and Carolyn for a sail aboard their new boat, Ganesh.
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January 8, 2013How Not to Install a Self-Steering WindvaneMonitoring One’s Progress Toward the Loony Bin: On a quest for self-steerage, our intrepid do-it-yourselfers attempt the impossible in the most unfeasible manner. On Watch from the December 2012 issue of Cruising World.
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September 24, 2012Books on Kindle: Boat Dollars FoundA free-WiFi discovery in Yap kindles a writer’s windfall of sorts, and that, in turn, launches the search for The Boat. On Watch from our September 2012 issue.
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May 10, 2011It All Went So WrongHaving sailed the fraught waters of the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Aden just months before the crew of the U.S.-flagged Quest, the Cap'n reflects on pirates, murder, and good cruising folk.
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March 10, 2011Winter StudiesThe Cap’n enjoys a hands-on Euro sensitivity-training course, of sorts.
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January 6, 2004Skinny & FattyOl' Skinny, Steve Callahan, and Cap'n Fatty Goodlander, two distinctly disparate sailors, will share the role of dual (dueling?) columnists for our monthly On Watch column.
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May 19, 2008Fatty Goes NationwideCW editor at large Cap'n Fatty Goodlander stars in the National Public Radio series "The Log of Wild Card."
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March 13, 2008Stopover in SamoaWhat problems exist here are made up for in spades by the warmth of its people. "Passage Notes" March 2008
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