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Maple sugaring is one of many water to keep kids connected to nature during winter. Photo courtesy of Oregon Ridge Nature Center.
Until young sailors return to the waterfront, keep them busy and happy with some nature-based fun. Here are just a few of the many options.
Two accident survivors share lessons learned about lifejackets and VHF radios.
Capt. Art Pine looks at some of the safety lapses that most often get sailors in trouble on the Chesapeake Bay.
"We arrived as Carnival, the annual celebration involving lots of drinking and more than its share of crime, was just getting underway." By Scott Neuman.
Salty Dawg Rally sailors at Hog Heaven
Rallies provide opportunities for cruisers to enjoy their passages with comfort, safety, and company. By Tracy Leonard.
Jack and Erewhon in Annapolis. Photo by Al Schreitmueller
Jack was an authentic and honest writer and an ironman of a sailor, remembers David Gendell
Wall walking--it happens. Don't judge. Photo by Dan Phelps
Are you a Permaboard? Or a Pier Princess? Hopefully you're not a Landlubber... they're the worst. By Cindy Wallach.
Looking south from the Big Game Club to the entrance to Bimini Harbor.
"I’d just graduated from college and my roommate Michael and I had chartered a Pearson 30 for the trip. We’d found three attractive student teachers on spring break to join us, and we...
"The top priority of walking docks and being on boats in the winter is to never, ever, ever fall in the water." By Tracy Leonard
Fall is Goodbye Season, and I stink at goodbyes. I am the worst person to be writing about this because I am the perfect model of what not to do. I go completely overboard wanting to shower the departing crew with attention and wine and dinners and though
"Sailors sail around, they meet other sailors, become fast and deep friends, and then sail away. Maybe forever. The end. So why do we put ourselves through this?" By Cindy Wallach.

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