The 2021 Issue of our popular Voyages magazine is available for your reading pleasure. Find it here.
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The 2021 Issue of our popular Voyages magazine is available for your reading pleasure. Find it here.
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The Jordan Series Drogue, a string of relatively small fabric cones (100 or so), provides an adjustable tool to slow a boat. It's an invaluable tool for managing heavy weather on a sailboat.
Steve Brown conducted a survey of highly acclaimed sailors on their experience with the drogue. He's written up the results in the attached document.
Read moreThe CCA Safety & Seamanship Committee says the time for lifejackets is now and makes the case for their use as a key element of its Culture of Safety Recommendations.
Read moreSummer 2019—Night Watch in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands
by David Tunick, New York Station
Read moreThe movie “Albatross” shows the impact of plastics on the albatrosses of Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge. The movie was made between 2009 and 2012. Midway Atoll NWR is located more than a thousand miles northwest of Honolulu and shelters the world’s largest colonies of Laysan and Black-footed albatross, along with a single pair of Short Tailed albatross.
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