Ocean Navigator

Ocean Navigator
Firefighting gear Equipment for voyagers to battle a blaze on board BY JOHN J. KETTLEWELL
Firefighting for voyagers Few things are more frightening than an uncontrolled fire on board: the potential for total loss is extremely high. Unfortunately, fire is a not uncommon occurrence on boats of all sizes: witness the recent cases of cruise ships disabled due to fire. BY JEFF WILLIAMS
Swivels and anchor chain Norm Johnson
More on SSB gear William Ennis
Gas tanks and lightning Jiri Soukup
Mast climbing techniques Some approaches to mast climbing from an ocean voyager Story and photos by David Lynn
Septuagenarians’ San Juan sail This May my wife, Sumter, and I enthusiastically jumped at the invitation to sail in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. by Steve Coleman
The logistics of Amazon voyaging Near instant access to vast caches of electronic information has shrunk our globe so it’s almost unthinkable that misconceptions about cruising destinations still persist. Story and photos Louise Visagie
Race tracking and talking For race committees and family and friends on shore, tracking and communicating with boats in an ocean race has certainly evolved. It the past, boats would leave soundings and largely disappear until reaching the finish line By Tim Queeney
Baltic bruises The Baltic is not the deepest of seas, but we never expected to have problems entering a harbor with entrance breakwaters like Leba, Poland. Story and photos by Jim Foley
September 2012 Issue 204: From the English Channel to the Hudson River Klang II, a wooden gaff-rigged yawl is a vessel of many distinctions. BY DAVID BERSON
Pacific solo rower rescued after typhoon Solo British rower and adventurer Sarah Outen was forced to abandon ship after her ocean rowing boat, Gulliver, was severely damaged in the North Pacific.
California to Hawaii solo kayak attempt Endurance adventurer Wave Vidmar intends to be the first person in 25 years to attempt a 3,100-nm solo kayak voyage from San Francisco to Maui, Hawaii. by John Snyder
Pirate victims go back to sea Paul and Rachel Chandler, the British couple who were captured by Somali pirates in 2009 and held hostage for 388 days, plan to be back cruising again. by John Snyder
Marine Medicine - A Comprehensive Guide, 2nd edition reviewed by john snyder
A somber funeral procession by Twain Braden
Lyman-Morse opens operation in Panama Maine boatbuilder Lyman-Morse has expanded operations to southern climes with a new facility located in Shelter Bay, Panama. by John Snyder

Firefighting gear

Equipment for voyagers to battle a blaze on board

BY JOHN J. KETTLEWELL

Few things are more frightening than an uncontrolled fire on board: the potential for total loss is extremely high. Unfortunately, fire is a not uncommon occurrence on boats of all sizes: witness the recent cases of cruise ships disabled due to fire.

BY JEFF WILLIAMS

Swivels and anchor chain

Norm Johnson

More on SSB gear

William Ennis

Gas tanks and lightning

Jiri Soukup

Mast climbing techniques

Some approaches to mast climbing from an ocean voyager

Story and photos by David Lynn

Septuagenarians’ San Juan sail

This May my wife, Sumter, and I enthusiastically jumped at the invitation to sail in the San Juan Islands of Washington State.

by Steve Coleman

The logistics of Amazon voyaging

Near instant access to vast caches of electronic information has shrunk our globe so it’s almost unthinkable that misconceptions about cruising destinations still persist.

Story and photos Louise Visagie

Race tracking and talking

For race committees and family and friends on shore, tracking and communicating with boats in an ocean race has certainly evolved. It the past, boats would leave soundings and largely disappear until reaching the finish line

By Tim Queeney

Baltic bruises

The Baltic is not the deepest of seas, but we never expected to have problems entering a harbor with entrance breakwaters like Leba, Poland.

Story and photos by Jim Foley

September 2012 Issue 204: From the English Channel to the Hudson River

Klang II, a wooden gaff-rigged yawl is a vessel of many distinctions.

BY DAVID BERSON

Pacific solo rower rescued after typhoon

Solo British rower and adventurer Sarah Outen was forced to abandon ship after her ocean rowing boat, Gulliver, was severely damaged in the North Pacific.

California to Hawaii solo kayak attempt

Endurance adventurer Wave Vidmar intends to be the first person in 25 years to attempt a 3,100-nm solo kayak voyage from San Francisco to Maui, Hawaii.

by John Snyder

Pirate victims go back to sea

Paul and Rachel Chandler, the British couple who were captured by Somali pirates in 2009 and held hostage for 388 days, plan to be back cruising again.

by John Snyder

Marine Medicine - A Comprehensive Guide, 2nd edition

reviewed by john snyder

A somber funeral procession

by Twain Braden

Lyman-Morse opens operation in Panama

Maine boatbuilder Lyman-Morse has expanded operations to southern climes with a new facility located in Shelter Bay, Panama.

by John Snyder

September 2012

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