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The cliff
Compound errors add up to a bump in the night Issue 91 : Jul/Aug 2013 Accidents are supposed to be nasty moments that come out of nowhere. Yet in 1983, when I had more than 20 years’ sea time under my keel, a serious accident happened despite every step leading up to it being glaringly

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Westerly Centaur
A stout bilge-keeler from across the pond Issue 91 : Jul/Aug 2013 What were you doing in 1975? John Vokaty, then 48 years old, was working in corporate accounting when his wife, Helen, strongly suggested he was working too much and should take up sailing as “something to do.” And so they did. At first

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Getting hooked on sailing
Five stages from taking the bait to being truly boated Issue 91 : Jul/Aug 2013 1. The beginning It might have been Swallows and Amazons . . . or the thought of small animals in a beautiful pea-green boat . . . or two sawcuts making a pointy end in a short board . .

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Salvaging a dream
When super-human effort isn’t enough, humanity succeeds Issue 90: May/June 2013 This is a story of disaster, struggle, despair, and dreams lost . . . but also one of friendship, creativity, redemption, and triumph through sheer stubbornness. It begins with a cyclone. It was late in the season for tropical storms in the south Pacific

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Across Islands and Oceans
A journey alone around the world by sail and by foot Issue 91 : Jul/Aug 2013 Good Old Boat is proud to announce our 15th audiobook, this one by James Baldwin about the wonderful and rather unusual two-year circumnavigation he made starting in 1984 in his Pearson Triton. James summarized that voyage in an article

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