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For the Hungry Crew 0
Sparkling Mint-Lime Iced Tea

From Tablespoon comes this refreshing iced tea. Made with mint tea and sparkling water this is sure to please your guests. Read More ...
On May 24, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
Tech Talk 0
Volvo Penta and Fountaine-Pajot Look to the Future With Electromobility Technology

Volvo Penta has partnered with Fountaine-Pajot to fit a system of electric-powered drivetrains, shifting designs away from fossil fuels and carbon gas emissions. The new Volvo system will ...
On May 24, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
Cool Things to Do 0
Shipwrecks Viewed in 3D Modeling and Video

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has put together a Virtual Archaelology Museum. In the course of gas and oil exploration BOEM has discovered many shipwrecks and ...
On May 24, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
Boat Reviews 0
A Thoroughly Modern Hallberg-Rassy 40C

The Swedish builder Hallberg Rassy has been building classic, high quality cruising boats for two generations and remains one of Europe’s premier production boat builders. True blue water ...
On May 24, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
Dock Talk 0
Yacht Aground on Rocks Off the Anglesey Coast: Watch Footage of Rescue

With an audience of dozens of seals, the RNLI were able to rescue a couple from onboard a 25-foot sailboat that had gone aground on the rocks off ...
On May 24, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
Dock Talk 0
Scientists Quantify the Positive Effects of Being On the Water

Now you really have no excuse to get out on the water and if someone complains you are spending too much time out there, point to a number ...
On May 24, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
Dock Talk 0
More Than 400 Million Pieces of Plastic Found In the Cocos Keeling Islands, Home to Under 1000 People

From All Things Considered, on NPR comes this story of what a marine biologist found when she traveled to the remote islands of the Cocos Keeling Islands. Approximately ...
On May 24, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
Dock Talk 0
Beneteau Looks To the Future and Sees Multihulls

The sailboat market has certainly seen some hard times as boatbuilders struggle to stay afloat. Groupe Beneteau seems to have found the magic formula and is expanding their ...
On May 24, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
Dock Talk 0
Whale Warning Flag: Exercise Caution When Boating in the Area

NOAA’s Fisheries’ Southwest Fisheries Science Center has been studying the health of individual orca whales as well as the general population. Through studies and aerial images they have ...
On May 24, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
For the Hungry Crew 0
Pusser’s Painkillers

Certain drinks just seem as though they are made to be drunk while sitting in the cockpit with friends, either at anchor or your home dock. Painkillers fall ...
On May 17, 2019 / By Sandy Parks