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Jun 17 2011

Not a race fan, but this video is instructive

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Jan 29 2011

Painful lessons for Ventura county boaters

Two boats went aground two weekends ago. A Bayliner slid onto the beach in mid-afternoon just northwest of the Channel Islands Harbor entrance and a sailboat headed for that harbor went aground about three miles south of the harbor and somewhat south of the Port Hueneme pier at 0215. Though the accidents are seemingly unrelated [...]

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Oct 26 2010

Are you the next SoCal Good Samaritan?

You could be the next one chosen by fate to be at the right place at the right time for a mariner in distress. I read the Coast Guard news a couple of times a week, and it is a rare story that tells of mariners in trouble near the coast who are rescued solely [...]

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Jul 08 2010

People drown rather quitetly. How distress really looks.

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We all know that a drowning victim waves their arms and will sometimes shout for help. And we’re all acutely wrong. Read gCaptain’s recent blog and you’ll know what to look for. Signs of drowning. thanks, Mack for sending this along to us. //dan Share on Facebook

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Jul 07 2010

Upside down in wild cold seas in Northern California

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Just gotta wonder what they were thinking. Everyone got rescued, but there was probably no good reason why they should have found themselves upside down under their catamaran in the first place. Read the report in Latitude 38. Then comment, critique, write a diatribe or just speculate. BTW – if you don’t subscribe to the [...]

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