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    Cyndi Perkins

    Cyndi Perkins, a longtime Lake Superior sailor, has completed two America's Great Circle Loops with her husband, Scott, aboard their 32-foot Down East sailboat, Chip Ahoy. The longtime nautical writer's first novel, More Than You Think You Know (Beating Windward Press), debuts in 2016.

    Docked boat named Barracuda
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    Barracuda’s Last Breakout

    A sailing legend puts a wayward boat’s demise in perspective In June 2013, at about the time the remains of a century-old Lake Superior shipwreck, the freighter Henry B. Smith, were discovered 30 mile...

    Cyndi Perkins
    January 1, 2016
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    Sail with Me: Book Review

    Inspiring self-reliance marks this debut memoir by sailor, artist, marine mechanic-electrician and singlehander Rebecca Burg, who in the 1990s swapped life ashore in West Bend, Wisconsin, for the Key ...

    Cyndi Perkins
    October 1, 2014
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    An Illustrated Cruising Guide to the Great Loop Inland Waterway: Book Review

    Managing the Waterway authors Mark and Diana Doyle were intercepted by inland waterway patrols for “suspicious behavior” aboard their 22-foot pilothouse C-Dory while creating this new and improved add...

    Cyndi Perkins
    December 1, 2010
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