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Big Fun on Banderas Bay

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Really? That’s What You’d Do First

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Orion Breaks Lakota’s SD-PV Record

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Caribbean Mornings & Commuting

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When Do Cruisers Become Racers?

It’s a fact that most cruising sailors never race. That’s partly because they feel they’d be ‘sailing their house’, which is too heavily laden to be competitive, and partly because many of them have little or no previous racing experience.  But not all cruisers think this way, as evidenced by this note from Robin Weber:…