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A “bag of tricks” has the power to connect you, anywhere Issue 65 : Mar/Apr 2009 Cruising is full of surprises, but one you don’t need, and can easily avoid, is arriving in a strange marina to find that your shorepower cord doesn’t match any of the marina’s shorepower receptacles. The answer is to put...
Life aboard is measured by aural stimuli Issue 65 : Mar/Apr 2009 A gull’s cry pierces the morning quiet of the marina as I open the hatch and emerge into the mist with my coffee. That sound bridges time . . . I am 10 years old, wandering an ocean beach, awed by the sight...
Banish those not-so-good old-boat odors Issue 65 : Mar/Apr 2009 When our good friends Jeff and Dawn told us they had just purchased a liveaboard sailboat, I knew what would make the perfect “boat warming” gift: a starter kit of essential oils and natural cleaners that really work and smell great too. This gave me...
Use your own observations to refine the local forecast Issue 66 : May/Jun 2009 A big part of guessing what the weather will do is knowing what it has just done. Reading Gord May’s excellent article, “Weather Basics,” in the November 2005 issue, prompted me to write about what we do on Callisto that helps...
