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HAUNTED SAILBOAT: Up For Auction
Posted on May 20th 2013 - Charles Doane
I remember when I lived in New York City there were some people who used to read the obits every day, looking for what might ...

SWAN 48 DELIVERY: Wrong Way To The W’Indies
Posted on May 19th 2013 - Charles Doane
Editor's Note: Those studying my recent account of Lunacy's passage from Puerto Rico to Bermuda may have noticed that we did NOT find that abandoned Swan ...

MODERN SAILBOAT DESIGN: Quantifying Stability
Posted on May 16th 2013 - Charles Doane
We have previously discussed both form stability and ballast stability as concepts, ...

NORTHBOUND LUNACY: Sailing From Puerto Rico to Bermuda
Posted on May 14th 2013 - Charles Doane
This was a fast passage with very little motoring. My mate Mr. Lassen and I covered the 830 some miles between Fajardo and St. Georges ...

DEATH BY SAILING: Andrew Simpson and Luke Stimson
Posted on May 10th 2013 - Charles Doane
  I was planning next to bore you with some details of Lunacy's recent passage from Puerto Rico to Bermuda, but the breaking news is far ...

ROLL-UP INFLATABLE DINGHIES: Better Than RIBs
Posted on May 7th 2013 - Charles Doane
ATTENTION EARTH PEOPLE! As I write this I am approaching Bermuda, blasting along but 70 miles out on what seems a perpetual close reach, due ...

AMERICA’S CUP CONUNDRUM: Need We Worship Larry Ellison?
Posted on April 30th 2013 - Charles Doane
Another America's Cup summer looms on the horizon, raising again that perennial insuperable question that so tortures racing sailors: how the heck do we get ...

FREE SWAN 48: More Info And A Plan
Posted on April 25th 2013 - Charles Doane
Just figured something out. That Irish-owned Swan 48, Wolfhound, currently adrift twixt Bermuda and ...

GAMBIA RIVER CRUISE: Finding My Toma
Posted on April 22nd 2013 - Charles Doane
WHEN IT CAME TIME to leave Dakar, I found we were, almost literally, hanging by a thread. I had anchored Crazy Horse, my Alberg 35 ...

SWAN 48: Definitely Worth Salvaging
Posted on April 18th 2013 - Charles Doane
MY LAST POST about that abandoned Swan 48 floating around south of Bermuda has created ...