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Two Right Whales Found Severely Entangled: One Calf Likely Fatally Injured Two separate entanglement incidents involving North Atlantic right whales have raised urgent conservation concerns. On October 11,…
Saving Thomas Point Lighthouse: A Chesapeake Landmark in Need of Repair Anyone who has navigated the main stem of the Chesapeake Bay just south of Annapolis, Maryland, will…
Cruising Cuba’s North Coast: Practical Experiences and Tips for Visiting Sailors After making a slow passage along Cuba’s northwestern coast, one correspondent reconsidered plans to continue across the…
Piracy Today: Fighting Villainy on the High Seas — Book Review While fictional pirates in adventure stories are often romanticized as daring and heroic, modern piracy is a…
When Soundings first appeared fifty years ago, I was paying less than 50 cents a gallon to fill the six-gallon tanks that slid across the floor of my…
Northwest Sails and Canvas — Sailmaking Craft in Port Hadlock Step into the busy Westrem Building at the Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding in Port Hadlock, Washington, and…
Bert ter Hart’s Solo Five-Capes Circumnavigation Using Only Celestial Navigation When Bert ter Hart sailed into Rarotonga after four months alone at sea following his departure from the…
Plastic Found in the Mariana Trench: The Deepest Evidence of Ocean Pollution The Mariana Trench, an immense chasm in the Earth’s crust reaching nearly seven miles beneath the…
How to Evaluate a Boat Before You Buy: Practical Tips for Confident Cruising Few purchases create the same excitement and anticipation as buying a boat. You read magazines,…
Dee Caffari Becomes First Woman to Sail Solo Around the World Both Ways Dee Caffari, a former British physical education teacher turned professional sailor, has made history by…
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