On the Hard

Away She Goes

    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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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

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Close 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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