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Docking Boat in a Current
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: May 22, 2012
Learn to dock a boat like a pro when you make smooth and easy landings in current. Follow these fast and easy sailing tips and in no time, you will be "wowing" the folks at your marina with your docking skills!
Learn to Sail for Newbies - Five Sailboat Mast Safety Secrets
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: May 16, 2012
Learn to sail like a pro with these sailing safety tips. Each year, you can read another story about a sailboat that tried to sail under a bridge and got into trouble. Or, you might read a story about a sailor electrocuted when he or she attempted to pass under a low hanging overhead power line. Follow these five easy sailing tips to avoid marine accidents like these and keep your sailing safe, fun, and worry-free.
Ten Heavy Weather Sailing Tips You Need to Know
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: May 8, 2012
If you are anything like me, heavy weather sailing can be a challenge and make you tired fast. The more you prepare ahead of time, the more energy you will save. Follow these ten "do ahead of time" sailing tips to prepare for less fatigue and more comfort the next time the rough stuff crosses your path!
Light Wind Sailing Tips
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: May 3, 2012
Learn to sail like a pro with these sailing tips for light wind sailing. Use these easy tips for light air sailing in the gentle winds of dawn's first light or the ghost-like breezes of a moonlit night.
Sailing Safety Tips - How to Use Emergency Marine Flares
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: April 23, 2012
Learn to sail like a pro when you understand how to use marine flares for sailing safety. Imagine that you are out sailing and discover water flooding into your boat. Within minutes, your batteries are covered by water--and your VHF radio dies. Now you have no electronic communications. But, you do have flares aboard. Follow these easy sailing tips to discover how to use hand held flares or launchers in an emergency at sea!
Learn to Sail for Newbies - Balance Your Sailboat for Performance
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: April 19, 2012
If you want to learn to sail like a pro, practice the art of yin and yang. Remember those old Kung Fu movies where the wise master talks to the "Grasshopper" about having balance? Yin and yang? Wax on, wax off? Discover these secrets of balance to sail with more speed and power than ever before.
Learn to Sail Like a Pro - How to Use a Sailboat Winch
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: April 11, 2012
Learn to sail with confidence when you know the safe, easy way to put sailboat winches to work. These mechanical devices save you time and effort and help you trim sails for power and speed. Read on to learn how to put these "sailing workhorses" to work aboard your sailboat.
Sailing - Different Types of Sailboats
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: April 9, 2012
When you learn to sail, you will hear different sailboat terms like monohull, catamaran, sloop, cutter, ketch or yawl. But just what does this sailing terminology mean? Follow this easy guide to look at the different types of sailboats to help you decide on the best to fit your brand of sailing!
First Time Sailing? Here's What You Need to Know
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: March 26, 2012
Want to learn to sail? Step aboard a sailboat and you will experience a whole new world of boating. But just how different will it be and what can you expect to experience? Here are seven ways to get yourself ready for one of life's greatest pleasures.
How to Dock a Boat - Beware of the "Bight Line"!
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: March 13, 2012
How can you keep your boat or sailing crew safe when working a docking line under high tension? Make sure you put these three golden safety rules into play aboard your small power or sailboat today!
These Sailing Tips Could Save Your Life!
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: March 9, 2012
Learn how to sail like a pro when you know the sailing tips you need for survival at sea. Not many things put fear into a sailor like water flooding into a boat. Unless you can find the source of the leak fast, your small sailboat could capsize and sink like a stone to the sea bottom. Read on for the steps you need to take to keep your sailboat and sailing crew safe and sound.
Sailing Tips Essentials - Ten Tips to Make You a Better Sailor!
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: February 28, 2012
What top ten sailing tips will help you enjoy sailing in the most fun and safe way? You might be surprised to know that it all starts long before you step aboard your sailboat. Use these little known secrets for day sailing, weekend cruising, or for coastal and offshore sailing.
Tips For Anchoring Your Sailboat
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: February 20, 2012
If you are anything like me, anchoring your sailboat in a quite, snug cove or harbor can be hard to beat. But how do you choose an anchoring spot that will provide you with a worry-free "night on the hook"? Follow these easy tips to enjoy one of sailing's most sought-after pleasures.
Questions to Ask Before Deciding to Buy a Sailboat
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: February 14, 2012
Is sailing over the horizon more than just a dream, now with gas (and diesel) prices out of sight? Do you want to know the most essential things to look for before plunking down your cash on a cruising sailboat? Only you are looking out for your own best interests. Not a boat broker, working off commission. So, get a piece of paper and a pencil and do a bit of analysis--before you decide to buy!
How to Maintain Your Sailboat
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: February 7, 2012
Learn to sail like a pro when you keep your sailboat shipshape and "squared away". Save tons of money on repairs, sailing gear replacement, and go sailing more. Use these seven top sailing tips to stay ahead of the sailboat maintenance game today!
Learn to Sail for Newbies - Five Low Cost Ways to Go Sailing!
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: January 31, 2012
Do you want to learn to sail, without the high price of sailing schools? In these tough times, we all are looking for free or almost free. And you can sail for free or almost free with five simple sailing tips you can put into play today!
Three Sailing Tips for Safer Sailing Today!
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: January 24, 2012
What sailing tips could you put into play today to make your small sailboat a safer platform for her sailing crew? Do your inexperienced crew members know the body motions they must use for safety at sea? Follow this simple sailing safety advice and pass it along to your crew.
Learn to Sail for Newbies - Sailboat Cabin Terms You Need to Know
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: January 18, 2012
Learn to sail in no time when you understand the sailboat terms that relate to your sailboat cabin. With this new knowledge, you'll be on your way to become an "old salt" in no time!
The Top 5 Anchoring Tips
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: December 29, 2011
What five anchoring tips rank right up there as the most important for sailing safety? Follow these five super sailing tips before you drop the hook. Gain peace-of-mind that your boat anchor will keep you and your crew safe and sound--wherever in the world you choose to cruise!
Learn to Sail for Newbies - What Are Your Sailing Goals This Off-Season?
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: December 19, 2011
Have you put away thoughts of sailing for another season? If you want to learn to sail, challenge yourself to these three sailing education goals that will cost you nothing. Your sailing knowledge will soar to new heights faster than your ever thought possible!
How to Tie Marine Knots
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: December 15, 2011
Learn how to tie marine knots fast and easy when you understand parts of a sailing rope and the techniques for tying a knot. Follow this simple "getting started" guide to tie any knot aboard your boat fast and easy!
How Far Can I Sail in a Day?
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: December 8, 2011
How far you can sail in 24 hours? If you want to go on a sailing cruise, you need this sailing skill so that you can carry enough food, water, fuel, and sailing gear for your sailing crew. Use these simple sailing tips.
Three Sail Care Tips to Save You Money
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: November 30, 2011
Learn to sail like a pro with these cost saving sail care tips. If you want to learn how to sail like a pro, then you need to know the best way to keep your sailboat sails in great shape.The last thing you want are sails that don't provide you with speed, power, and performance.Make this simple inspection before the sailing season begins and after it ends.
How to Become a Pro at Docking a Sailboat
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: November 22, 2011
If you want to learn to sail well, docking a sailboat will be one skill you will need. After all, after you go sailing, you will need to bring your sailboat back to the dock and tie her up.
Learn to Sail for Newbies - Do You Know These Sailing Terms?
Travel and Leisure: Sailing • Published: November 15, 2011
Learn to sail in the off season when you study the sailing terms used aboard sailboats everywhere. Here are a handful of common terms and sailing tips to get you started!
