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    Three steps to simplified sailing

    A successful circumnavigator passes on lessons learned Issue 70 : Jan/Feb 2010 My wife, Carol, and I have been bumbling ever westward for the last 20 years in our good old boat, Mary T, an Offshore 40...

    Sigmund Baardsen
    July 24, 2026
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    Tom has gone

    Cruisers pull together for the dear departed Issue 73 : Jul/Aug 2010 The brassy summer sun beat down on the tiny Turkish port of Marmaris. Tom, the crusty old Brit, sat sweating under his cockpit awni...

    Sigmund Baardsen
    July 16, 2026
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    Five lessons

    Practice, observation, restraint, patience, persistence Issue 81 : Nov/Dec 2011 Blinken, Sabot dinghy In 1949, I was racing my Naples Sabot dinghy with very modest success. I complained to my mentor, ...

    Sigmund Baardsen
    June 25, 2026
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