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Dealing with the Weather
The best way to handle rough weather is to avoid it all together. This may not be practical on extended cruises, and in any case every captain should be prepared. As boats vary in design and size, the precautions a...
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Boating With All Your Senses
You don’t need a computer diagnostic system, to know what your boats is doing. Some of the best information is from your own senses if you know what you’re seeing, hearing and smelling. And what they mean. Your boat and...
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Boating and the Creation of Cultures
One of the biggest advantages of traveling by water was that it affords man far greater mobility and able to travel faster and farther than they could by land. In addition to being used for trade, boats and later “ships”...
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Boat Insurance
You probably have boat insurance, but is it enough, and does it have the right type of coverage? Most companies will provide limited coverage for damage for small boats such as canoes and small sail boats and ll power boats...
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Avoiding Running Out of Fuel
Even the best and most experienced captains are human and can make a mistake. There’s a YouTube video that shows a small boat that almost gets hit by a tanker because it ran out of fuel at just the wrong...
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