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Yachting World 0shares What are the skills you need before casting off on a transocean or bluewater adventure? Offshore training skippers share their advice You might have a departure day circled red in the diary and be furiously working through a to-do list to get there. Or maybe you’re considering a bluewater sailing adventure in future, and starting to think through the preparations you need to make. You might even have postponed your big trip, and be considering ...

Weather Routing: Comfortable Passagemaking Fair winds and moderate seas make for great passagemaking A weather forecast—like an old-school dead-reckoning plot—will decrease in certainty with the passage of time. Over the past five years of arranging offshore charters aboard our Swan 48, Isbjørn, and our Swan 59, Icebear, we’ve tempted the gods by consistently breaking the cardinal rule of cruising—sailing to a schedule. However, thanks to a fundamental understanding of big-picture we...

Local governments will get stimulus money under COVID relief package WWNY Local governments will get stimulus money under COVID relief package By Keir Chapman | March 9, 2021 at 4:30 PM EST - Updated March 9 at 9:25 PM WATERTOWN, N.Y. (WWNY) - It’s just not people who are waiting for a stimulus check to arrive. Counties, cities, villages and towns are all about to get a shot of stimulus money aimed at helping governments hit by the pandemic. When President Joe Biden signs the COVID re...

The crew from the series - 80° North © SV Delos Confession. I got a sneak peak at the SV Delos Arctic trailer a while back, and swore to complete secrecy, or face the long walk off a short pier... You can catch it here. The extreme latitudes continue to find sway, as over crowding in the more familiar destinations just continues to get worse. There are several craft in construction that we know of, purposely built to take on the challenges of the big numbers. Ive been as high as a...