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Boat Maintenance

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A vessel is deteriorating from the moment it is built. Willits D. Ansel. If you have an aversion to labor and don't like fixing things, you have no business owning a boat. Yanmar 1GM Cutaway Photographs. For fiberglass and other shiny plastics, use nonabrasive cleaners (e.g. Bon-Ami but NOT Ajax), brushes with soft synthetic bristles, and plastic or nylon scrubbers. Wash plastic port lights with fresh water, not salt water, to avoid scratching. Remove spilled oil from the bilge by pouring in water, allow...

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Navigational Aids

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To be successful at sea, we must keep things simple. R D (Pete) Culler. Buoys, storm warnings, daymarks, information and regulatory markers published by INAMAR Recreational Marine Insurance. DEMODS - Marker numbers DE. As you enter a tributary from the main body of water and start downstream toward a marina, the marker numbers will decrease. When returning to a harbor remember to keep the red markers (nuns) to your starboard side (i.e. right side). Remember the expression: Red, Right, Returning.

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Basic Navigation

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The acquisition of the knowledge of navigation has a strange effect on the minds of men. You may be able to sail faster than anyone else or turn your boat on a dime, but all the boat handling skills in the world won't help you if you don't know how to get safely to where you want to go. Use this page in conjunction with Basic Chartwork. General charts- scales 1:150,000 to 1:600,00 are for coastwise navigation outside outlying reefs and shoals. Soundings on foreign charts. English fathom - 6 feet. Russian...

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Nautical Reference

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When you take up a pastime, you need to know the words. If you ever hope to survive in your environment, you need to speak the language. The sea and the men who sail her have their own language, and it would benefit you to learn it or at least become familiar with it. Most common modern rig. Excellent for sailing upwind. Sloop with the mast nearer the middle of the boat, allowing room to fly an extra jib. A vessel with two masts. The smaller mast, called a mizzen mast, is located behind the rudder post.

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Shore Leave

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If dogs don't go to heaven, when I die I want to go wherever they went. How do you know when it's time to sell your boat? When questioned in a radio interview on July 12, 2004 as to why he sold his boat, William F. Buckley, Jr. gave this very astute answer:. I sold the sailboat as sort of a gradual acknowledgement of the coefficient of work over uh against satisfaction. And uh those ergs of energy give you uh classically, ergs PLUS pleasure. Gradually, you say to yourself, ‘It’s time to hang it up.’.

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Lake Arthur Scrapbook

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Lake Arthur Sailing Scrapbook. Click on photos for a larger view. How do you download a photo? Larger resolution photos (3 mega pixels/1.43 MB) for printing are available and will be emailed to you upon request. Send requests to. Regatta at Lake Arthur 2004. Regatta at Lake Arthur 2005. Regatta at Lake Arthur 2006. Regatta at Lake Arthur 200. Regatta at Lake Arthur 2008. Regatta at Lake Arthur 200. Regatta at Lake Arthur 20. Regatta at Lake Arthur 20. Regatta at Lake Arthur 20. Legend: An OBX Novel.

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Commander's Fleet

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Boats are something more than the landsman comprehends. Boats are like anything else. It's nice to have one for every occasion. Was what I considered my traveling boat. It was a 2003 Precision 18. That was small, light, and easy to transport on a trailer. I could raise the mast, rig, and launch it myself. It was the second Precision 18 I owned, the first being Kalapana. A 1998 Precision 18. That I sailed 1998-2000 prior to purchasing Banana Republican. The Banana Republican, being a 2000 Precision 21.

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Seaman's Eye

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The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats. - Ernest Hemingway. With all the charts, gadgets, and electronic devices onboard, sometimes the most valuable asset is a well trained eye. It is not always necessary to take a bearing of an object using a hand-bearing compass. Often it is enough to estimate the angle by eyeing it across the binnacle compass. You can also use the bow of the boat (as 12 o'clock) and mentally measure the angle in relation to the bow. Similar to us...

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Commanders Legacy

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The Captain's charge is to command all. Legacy of the Commander. Karl O. Waltenbaugh. William K. Waltenbaugh. He was fond of calling himself the Commander, but my father was not a Navy man. Instead, he was and Army Air Corps officer, and his only experience on a boat was a military transport to Italy during WWII and his honeymoon cruise on Lake Erie. It doesn't matter, though, because he was and will always remain the Commander. Joseph K. Waltenbaugh. And lest we forget the first mate.

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Grog

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Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk. - Sir Francis Chichester. Grog 'gräg n [Old Grog, nickname of Edward Vernon 1757 E admiral responsible for diluting the sailors' rum] : spirituous liquor; specif : liquor (as rum) cut with water. Without ice (or very little ice). Blend, shake, or stir:. 1 ounce cream of coconut. 1 ounce orange juice. 4 ounces pineapple juice. Pusser’s British Navy Rum. Drink in the word of a sailor. One for the road. Beer, ale, stout.