Give everybody on your boat their own unique water bottle. Have each of them pick something fun and bring it along. While on the boat, everyone can refill their water bottles from the plastic gallon water bottles you buy. This will: Cut down on trash. You can bring just gallon water bottles along and fill […]
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I think M Robertson’s point is a really good one. You shouldn’t follow someone else’s advice just because you think they have more experience than you. So just because the boat in front of you is approaching Anegada and looks like they know what they are doing, doesn’t mean that you should just follow them.
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One thing you might want to teach guests on your boat is how to tie a fender to your boat. Often, when you need others to tie fenders to your boat (instead of being able to take the time yourself), it’s when it’s urgent. Like the time we had a boat slam into the side
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One of the most common mistakes you see is people anchoring or mooring their boats with their dinghy trailing 20 feet behind them. Quite often they’ll end up driving over the painter (the rope that ties the dinghy to the boat) and getting the painter wrapped around the boat’s drive shaft. Reading John Licthy’s account
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