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Actually I never owned one. I did use one – poorly – when I was a midshipman. I could reliably find our continent, might even be able to hit something in California, but I wouldn’t want to trust my best work when it comes to navigating shallow waters, reefs and the like. On the other [...]

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F/V Lady Frances aground at Smugglers. USCG photo. It’s been a tough fishing season for the squid fleet and brisk business for Channel Watch Marine, the local Vessel Assist team. Lady Frances, above, is in the shipyards now, but not for repair. She’ll be cut up and most likely end up in a landfill. Another [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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