Archive for December, 2007
Thursday, December 20th, 2007
Have you ever noticed the abundance of books on the subject claiming Celestial Navigation Made Easy? I met a bloke who was my celestial navigation instructor who claims to have done latitude navigation by triangulation on AM radio stations broadcasting from major cities on the US Eastern Seaboard. ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
Our Colorado crew has been busy planning for Antigua Race Week in May. Since most of us are seasonal sailors the subject of a knot review came up. I had just received a message with a link to Grog's Animated Knots and we found it to be a ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
With today’s sophisticated navigational software, digital charts, and interfaces to many sailboat systems such as GPS, radar, sonar, and radio, it’s hard not to agree that a computer is fast becoming necessary onboard equipment. While the ideal solution may be an integrated system built-in to marine specifications, the reality is ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
While researching sea anchors I came across an article on the web that takes anchoring outside the box. It contains a great analogy of a sailboat at anchor to an arrow on a tether. Find it here. The website provides a lot of information for the series drogue, aka the ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
In a recent copy of Readers Digest I found a definition for a website: “Easy access to lots of useless information”. To find worthy boating information in the haystack known as the world wide web it takes patience and bandwidth. Internet access should include a disclaimer: User Beware - websites ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2007
This is Brian, the proprietor of Red Sky Sails, a sail loft in Berthoud Colorado. This "Mariner's Web" blog is intended to share information regarding Sailmaking (Sail Design, build, and repair) and all things pertinent to mariner's on the web, specifically topics in sailing, sailboats, rigging, and seamanship.
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