It’s a hard, hard life on the hard. The last place you want to live on a sailboat is on the hard. Sailboats are meant to be water logged, ideally on anchor. They are not
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Adventures of a Waterlogged Wanderlust
On the Hard
Voice of Experience: Helicopter Rescue
Published October 2016, Sail Magazine “My name is Petty Officer Jaime Vanacore. I am your rescue swimmer.” Her Dolphin helicopter hovering 70ft over the peaks of the waves, Jaime had zipped down from the helicopter to the ocean, first with
Read moreClose Hauled Down the Thorny Path
(For the non-sailor readers, there is a band around the direction of the wind in which sailing is not possible; that close to the wind the sails do not catch enough wind to propel the boat forward. If a sailboat
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