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Latest Issue: January 2020
18Letters
A Ha-Ha Secret to Move Into the Spotlight
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46Sightings
Sterling Hayden and his kids in Pape'ete, Tahiti.
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58Season Champions, Part III
This third installment of our annual Season Champs series shines the spotlight onto the divisions of the Singlehanded Sailing Society, Bay Area Multihull Association, Yacht Racing Association and even the Master Mariners Benevolent Association.
66Homeschool Daze the Routine to Raise Cruising Kids
I should have been giddy with excitement the day we untied our dock lines and set sail to embark on our cruising life, but instead I was being smothered by my biggest fears: losing someone overboard and bombing at homeschooling.
70Bill and Melinda Erkelens — Living and Working the Sailing Dream
Twenty-five years later, the jury is still out as to whether five pounds of candy (a large bag of Costco Halloween candy, to be precise) and chocolate espresso beans were the secret weapon that swept Bill and Melinda Erkelens across the Pacific to victory on their first doublehanded Pacific Cup.
74Year in Preview
As we bid farewell to the 20-teens, we find that our 2020 dance cards are filling up fast with plenty of regattas and events to keep us busy on waters near and far. (Some of these events even conclude with actual post-sail dancing!)
78MAX EBB: Back to the Future, Again
In 1990, Max and Lee time traveled 20 years into the future, to a dystopian 2010 in which only sailors with corporate sponsorship could race YRA, and the new and very popular high-speed powerboat
racing circuit had right of way over the few remaining amateur sailing events.
84The Racing Sheet
December 7's GGYC Seaweed Soup, EYC Jack Frost and SDYC Hot Rum Series provided contrast. Both Cal and Stanford won the Big Sail, we glimpse the Transpac through the lens of an onboard reporter, and we take a peek at the Leukemia Cup Fantasy Sail. Race Notes draws 2019 to a close.
90World of Chartering
Pine Trees, Not Palm Trees: Chartering Beyond the Tropics
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94Changes in Latitudes
Tecla — 1915 Gaff Ketch: Krista Swedberg Tall Ship Sailing
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