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Photo: Chris Tucker Sailtime Chris Tucker in his Sailtime Blog has some great pictures of a near disaster this weekend in Channel Islands harbor. He makes an excellent case for having a PLAN B when things don’t go as planned. Chris points out that these guys probably could have avoided scaring the hell out of [...]

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Though Randy Chapman is a newly minted captain, he’s got more experience sailing the Channel Islands than anyone other than Brian Fagan, Mike Pyzel and a few of the crustiest urchin fishermen. Randy recently posted a comment to my Santa Ana tale from last week. He’s given us some excellent pointers, which I think need [...]

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              Twenty years ago, Captain Sean Quine set out for the first overnighter on his new yacht. He sailed to Smugglers Cove on an idyllic afternoon. Conditions changed. Radically. People – though not in Sean’s crew – died. Log entry: 28 October 1988 Maiden overnight voyage on Down Under, [...]

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This graphic from Sailflow is just that – a pretty damned graphic explanation of why Santa Ana’s can be so dangerous – even if you’re not at sea when they hit. When we tied up the Big Girl (Sancerre) last Friday afternoon, we put a couple of extra fenders on what is normally the windward [...]

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