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Bruckmann to Build SAGA
Posted on August 17th 2010 - Zuzana Prochazka
J.J. Taylor & Sons Ltd announced they will have Bruckmann Yachts build the SAGA Yachts line of ocean cruising sailboats at their yard in Mississauga ...

NEIL PRYDE: From Sails to Bicycles
Posted on August 16th 2010 - Charles Doane
  Those in the sailing universe will instantly recognize Neil Pryde primarily for all its windsurfing mojo, but also as a straight-up sailmaker. I made my ...

CASCO BAY CRUISE: Little Chebeague Island
Posted on August 13th 2010 - Charles Doane
Taft & Rinlaub's Cruising Guide to the Maine Coast is a bit dismissive of Chandler Cove, which is bounded by Great Chebeague Island to the ...

Here’s Why You Need an iPad on the Boat
Posted on August 13th 2010 - Tom Tripp
by Christine Kling   (Editor’s Note — Chris Kling is a sailor with with more than 30 years of experience on the oceans of the ...

Take the Poll — What’s the Ideal Tender Outboard?
Posted on August 12th 2010 - Tom Tripp
If you could have the perfect outboard for your dinghy or tender, what would it be?  A diesel perhaps, because you’re already carrying hundreds or ...

THUNDER AND LIGHTNING: How Far Away?
Posted on August 11th 2010 - Charles Doane
  This is my Omega Speedmaster, a fancy mechanical chronograph that my wife gave me for my birthday a couple of years back. It is, in ...

THE BOY, ME AND THE CAT: The First Snow Birds
Posted on August 11th 2010 - Charles Doane
These days voyaging south down the U.S. East Coast via the Intracoastal Waterway is so commonplace as to be cliché. Literally thousands of cruisers now ...

Furuno’s New WS200 Brings NMEA 2000 Ultrasonic Weather to Your Helm
Posted on August 10th 2010 - Tom Tripp
Actually, it brings ultrasonic weather data to your helm. Are we straight with that now?  Okay. The basic ultrasonic instrument has been around for several ...

2010 DOWNEAST CHALLENGE Results: Meet the Jeanneau One Design 35
Posted on August 6th 2010 - Charles Doane
You may have noticed I haven't been in a huge rush to blog about the offshore race in which Team SEMOSA competed the week before ...

LAURA DEKKER: Not Just Another Teen Record-Breaker?
Posted on August 5th 2010 - Charles Doane
Here we go again. It's getting so you can write these "youngest solo circumnavigator" stories just by filling in some blanks on a form. Except ...