Making friends with pilings and seawalls
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Sailors, who spend their boat-handling attention on trying to stay away from docks and pilings, should invest in a sturdy rubrail that can offer lots of leverage in tricky docking situations. Guidelines for sailors to improve their technique in two fundamental categories, namely, pivoting on pilings and levering off seawalls, are presented.
Publication Name: Cruising World
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0098-3519
Year: 2005
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A man of strong medicine
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On their South Pacific voyage, a cruising couple sought relief from debilitating pain from a traditional Tongan healer who administered medicines extracted from local plants. This miracle cured the female partner from her acute abdominal pain that other doctors could not treat.
Publication Name: Cruising World
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0098-3519
Year: 2003
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The safest rhumb line to Oz
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Scott Bannerot and his wife Wendy Bannerot talk about their voyaging to Bundaberg, Australia through Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuata. They give a detailed account of there sailing through the sublime Australia's eastern coastline.
Publication Name: Cruising World
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0098-3519
Year: 2004
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