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Great Technique for Dinghy Anchoring at the Beach
By Jeffrey Siegel (ActiveCaptain); Videography by Karen Siegel
Here’s a great technique for anchoring the dinghy off the beach. Our dinghy weighs about 800 pounds. She’s a rigid inflatable with a 40 HP engine. It’s our family car when we’re cruising and we put a lot of demands on her.
So I was telling Larry how much [...]
Marina Life Celebrates 10th Anniversary with Best Marina Contest
Marina Life members are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the cruise planning and concierge service by voting for their favorite member marina. The company will feature the winning marinas voted “Best Transient Marina” and marina with the “Best Customer Service” in the summer issue of Marinalife Magazine.
For those readers not familiar with Marinalife, it is [...]
ActiveCaptain Launches Major Website Upgrade
Jeffrey Siegel said this week that the ActiveCaptain “X” beta website, under development for the past year, is now fully launched and live, providing everything from a new user interface to NOAA charts and Microsoft Virtual Earth cartography. The website benefits greatly from having been available in beta form for the last several months and [...]
Sea Fare February – Victoria Allman in the Galley
Editor’s Note — Victoria Allman is the chef aboard a 143-foot megayacht and the author of the recently released “Sea Fare: A Chef’s Journey Across the Ocean.” This is the second in a series of periodic columns here on OceanLines featuring her irresistible recipes. Best of all for OceanLines readers, who are travelers of the [...]
Considering a Trawler? Get to a Trawler Fest
Yesterday’s news of the new Kadey-Krogen 52′ — which was made sort of under the public radar — at last month’s Trawler Fest in Fort Lauderdale, reminded me of just one more benefit of these events. If you’ve never been to a Trawler Fest, which are owned and operated by Passagemaker Magazine, and you’re thinking [...]
Learn to Run a Selene 47 Trawler
Selene Annapolis Charter has teamed up with the Sea Sense Powerboating School to offer the Selene 47 Holiday for charter and/or instructional charter on the Chesapeake Bay in 2010.
Charters are a five-day, four-night on-board comprehensive experience. Sea Sense will provide a structured course covering boat systems, operation, course plotting and navigation, boat handling, docking, and [...]
2010 Newport to Bermuda Race Notice Posted
It is one of the most prestigious of all open-ocean sailing races, yet it is also, for many, a rite of passage(making). The 635-mile 2010 Newport Bermuda Race will begin on June 10, 2010 off Castle Head, Newport, Rhode Island. The race is held every two years and is organized by the Cruising Club of [...]
Fleming Enthusiasts Get Their Own Magazine
Fleming Yachts has published the first edition of a company-sponsored magazine featuring the brand’s yachts, cruising articles and technical stories. The Fall/Winter edition of Venturer is available online at the Fleming website. Readers familiar with Nordhavn’s Circumnavigator magazine will find Venturer an opportunity to get the same kind of detailed product and “real world” use [...]
Sea Fare – Culinary (and other) Adventures on a Globe-Girdling Yacht
Victoria Allman is a classically trained chef whose wanderlust took her to sea for nine years as a chef aboard a megayacht. She has collected her memories of that experience in Sea Fare — A Chef’s Journey Across the Ocean. Readers here on OceanLines are, by definition, interested in travel, adventure, yachts and food. Allman’s [...]
Annapolis School of Seamanship Offers Winter Workshop for Cruisers
If you’re looking to add to your cruising skills knowledge base, you might consider attending a workshop that will be hosted in January by The Annapolis School of Seamanship. The organization recently announced the launch of a new Cruiser’s Winter Workshop to be held Saturday and Sunday, January 23-24, 2010 at the world-renowned maritime training [...]
Filmmaker Finishes NW Passage on Nordhavn 57
Documentary filmmaker Sprague Theobald last week finished his wild and woolly northwest passage adventure with the arrival of his Nordhavn 57 Bagan in rainy Seattle. The months-long trip began in June in Newport, Rhode Island, and took the classic Nordhavn and its five-person crew through the ice-infested waters of the ever-warming Arctic Ocean. The trip will [...]
