Seamanship

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The size of battery-charging equipment has grown to keep pace with larger and more sophisticated batteries.

We worked our way south during the Goldwater family cruise, our 138-foot Herreshoff schooner Janeen reveling in the brisk trade winds.

If your vessel has an EPIRB, you’re not alone in an emergency. Distress signals can be received and acted upon within minutes, typically taking less than an hour for your position to be known to within 3 miles. That’s almost a miracle for a $500 purchase.

In 2009, Harvard Medical School professor Atul Gawande published The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right.

In days of yore, navigators expended great energy and effort attempting to establish their position. When they finally did, it was often with great doubt.

As boaters, we can stay out of harm’s way by gaining a better understanding of commercial ships.

In the winter of 1975, we sailed the 138-foot Herreshoff schooner Janeen (now the Mariette) to the Grenadines.

Being a crack sailor or having great boat-handling abilities alone is not enough when it comes to being a “right stuff” captain.

Just as automobile technology is changing to match new environmental standards, so must our boats.