Browsing All Posts By Sandy Parks

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  2019 Salty Dawg Rallies

  The nonprofit educational organization, Salty Dawg Sailing Association, has as its mission statement to help sailors realize their cruising dreams…safely. Passage-making seminars, crew list service, rendezvous where ‘dawgs’ ...

  On January 25, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
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  Sailing Into the Record Books

  From Castanet comes word that Jeanne Socrates is on her way to complete her dream. Socrates, at 76 years old hopes to become the oldest person to circumnavigate ...

  On January 25, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
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  Calico Lobster: One in Thirty Million

  (CNN) – There have been blue lobsters, yellow lobsters, even albino. Now comes a calico lobster. The chance of finding one is about one in 30 million. The ...

  On January 25, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
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  Equator Record-Spindrift Racing

  On Monday 21 January at 07h45 UTC, Spindrift 2 broke her own record by just over an hour, by crossing the Equator (leaving from Ushant) in 4 days ...

  On January 25, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
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  Cleanup of 544 Derelict Boats: Finished

  Three months after Hurricane Michael charged up from the Gulf, nearly all the 544 boats it left derelict in the water along Florida’s Panhandle have been picked up, ...

  On January 25, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
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  Magnetic North Pole on the Move

  There have been a number of reports this week on the rapid rate of shifting of the magnetic North Pole. This is of concern to any number of ...

  On January 18, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
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  Improving 911 Calls on the Water

  Here’s some good news for those who carry their cells phones while sailing. Who doesn’t? This heads up from Chesapeake Bay magazine In the past emergency calls were ...

  On January 18, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
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  Giving Thanks to the Coast Guard

  Everyone needs help sometimes. The Coast Guard is generally out there helping sailors in need and now that there is a government shutdown, some people and institutions have ...

  On January 18, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
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  Chartering with The Moorings in the BVI

  For many of us, we are in the midst of winter and heading to the BVI for a charter sounds pretty ideal. Freelance writer Hillary Richard in the ...

  On January 18, 2019 / By Sandy Parks
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  Cleaning Boston Harbor

  Thirty years ago, during the 1988 presidential campaign, then-Vice President George H.W. Bush took a boat ride across Boston Harbor and derided the environmental record of his rival, ...

  On January 18, 2019 / By Sandy Parks