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In our annual navigation class I state that you need to keep your charts updated because charts change: water scours the channels or they silt in, man-made stuff appears and disappears. But the rocks, they pretty much stay where they are. Yeah, plate tectonics yadda, yadda, yadda … “The Daily Beast” reports on a report [...]

photo LA Times Zac Sunderland sailed into Marina del Rey yesterday and was deluged with record-book entries. Zac Sunderland: the youngest person to sail solo around the world and one of only a couple of hundred people of any age to accomplish the mission. According to the ASA, far more people have reached Everest’s summit [...]

Cardinal Marks are used widely in European waters and elsewhere in the world. They indicate where safe water is and are easy to interpret.

Normally we don’t like to make light of other skippers’ misfortunes, but sometimes it’s just too hard to resist. Like yesterday for instance: A guy called “Mayday” and then reported his position (twice) as “000.” Now I don’t have a globe handy, but that would put him on the equator somewhere in the Atlantic several [...]