Tag Archive for: Tips and Advice

Essential Reefing a Sailboat Tips

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A good sailing tip would be to reef your boat early before the wind hits but even more essential reefing tips are embedded in this recent sailing event in Sydney Harbour, Australia. You can’t visit Sydney with out a sailing trip out on the harbour and Matt Hayes, owner of Sydney by Sail charter company […]

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Going on a Yacht Charter Vacation? Here’s a tip!

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Here’s a great tip for yacht charter vacations. Problem: You buy provisions at the start of the trip. You load them carefully into the top loading freezer with the best intentions of using everything. Through out the week every thing gets messed up. Stuff ends up at the bottom. At the end of the week […]

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Life Saving Tip for downwind sailing

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Some tips are long and some are short – This short one will save your life or one of your crew. As you know – sailing downwind has the dangerous potential of the accidental gybe. This can be quite a common occurrence if you have an inexperienced crew at the helm or perhaps with a […]

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Hello down there

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The sailing lesson today is to use Loctite on screws on your boat when you don’t want to lose them or when you don’t want to climb the mast.

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