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The Marine IPad: AIS RS-422 out to the IPad

I did not buy the IPad2 specifically for marine navigation, but once the IPad was in hand I became interested in the navigation potential of the device.   Now I have the IPad independently connected to my Furuno FA-50 Class B AIS using the available RS-422 interface.  With only the AIS switched on I can have position, course and [...]

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The Eagle and the Constitution

The historic U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Eagle returned to North America from a voyage to Europe, with a weekend port call in Boston.  The Eagle arrived this morning at the Charlestown Navy Yard, and is seen by many as America’s Tall Ship.  She was moored bow on bow with the USS CONSTITUTION. I walked from [...]

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Schooner REJOICE of La Conner

Photo © 2011 Tim Robison I am back home in the Pacific Northwest for a few days days, staying in the village of La Conner, where I came across the Schooner REJOICE in a damp early morning.  REJOICE was tied along side a dock in the Swinomish  Channel, through which I sailed many times on the [...]

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Loss of the Four Masted Schooner Winslow

   The Schooner Winslow as painted  by Woolston Barratt, an Australian Painter – 1916 – The Winslow, a four-masted schooner of 566 tons and 750 tons capacity, was built at Port Blakely, Bainbridge Island by the Hall Bros. in 1899 for their own fleet,  The schooner was sunk off Sunday Island off the coast of [...]

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USS Constitution – Nor’westerners Under Sail

About year after moving to Boston from Seattle, I found myself of a plane headed to Washington, DC.  I had just bought the little green hulled clipper bowed cutter I had renamed TATOOSH,  after Tatoosh Island and the Thunderbird legend of the native people of the Pacific Northwest. I wanted to to sit by the [...]

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The Blast Reacher and my Back Yard

We call it a Blast Reacher, but it is like a bit cut down Code Zero.  Unlike our Code Zero (Doyle calls it a Utility Power Sail), it is not made of high modulus materials for light air cracked off or in for very close reaching.  The Blast Reacher …

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The Blast Reacher and my Back Yard

We call it a Blast Reacher, but it is like a bit cut down Code Zero.  Unlike our Code Zero (Doyle calls it a Utility Power Sail), it is not made of high modulus materials for light air cracked off or in for very close reaching.  The Blast Reacher is of 1 1/2 oz. nylon, is high [...]

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Yacht Amazon, Dixon Kemp, and Firecrest

Painting with Light and Water The AMAZON – Painting with Light and Water – a High Dynamic Range photograph Built in 1895, AMAZON is registered in Guernsey, a British Crown dependency, one of the English Chanel Islands off the coast of France.  Still mostly original, here she is in Mystic on perfect spring day.  In 1997 she made [...]

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GAUCHO, a classic wooden yacht

The yacht GAUCHO is for sale.  GAUCHO is hull #5 of the New York 32 Class designed by Sparkman & Stephens, and built by the Nevins Yard in New York.  Twenty boats were built – 17 remain to today. A fast and able yacht, GAUCHO was bui…

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