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| Chuck and laura's Cruising Pages |
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Notable sailing adventures of our members from circling the globe over a period of years to weekend getaways to a favorite gunkhole. Send us your stories and we’ll post them here. The following are .pdf files so you may want to right click and save to your hard drive.
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| A CRUISE IN NORTHERN EUROPS; PART 1
by Roger Fairest
In July 2007, my wife and I tried to get our 27ft Albin Vega, “Ocean Sunrise” (OS) from the Isle of White (IOW) on the central English Channel to La Coruna in NW Spain and back, all in a short 3 week cruise.
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| BRINGING LYRA HOME by Ken Preston This Is the story of how I met a boat, fell in love with a town, adopted a family or two and sailed away. It was just supposed to be a simple . . .”buy boat, load up, sail home” kind of thing but it didn’t work out quite that way.
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| LEALEA HONOLULU TO NAWILIWILI AND HANALEI
We decided that we wanted to get out and do more sailing for a change and determined on sailing to Kauai for the Annual Nawiliwili to Hanalei race put on by our Yacht Club, Nawiliwili YC, on Labor Day Weekend. We figured, and rightly so, that we would waddle along behind the fleet and catch up at Hanalei. Here’s how it went:
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| SPIKE AFRICA: SAN DIEGO TO NAWILIWILI
The day started out normally enough. I was sipping my second cup of coffee and checking my E-mail when I noticed a message originating from Nawiliwili Yacht Club. The E-mail stated “another sea miles opportunity” had just developed on a 70 foot wooden schooner named SPIKE AFRICA.
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| PREPARING YOUR VEGA FOR OFFSHORE
Nick and Jenny Coghlan sailed Tarka the Otter, V1639, around the world. This is the 19 page special edition of the VODCA newsletter, originally published in 1990 detailing how they prepared and what they learned.
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