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Sailing Cruising Tips (24)
Cost Control While You Cruise: Lin & Larry Pardey Cruising Budget Tips Video

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A film by Lin & Larry Pardey
Running time: 64 minutes. What does it actually cost to go cruising? How do you keep from blowing the budget you set? Cost Control While You Cruise: Pardey Cruising Budget Tips Video gives you fact-packed answers. Join Lin and Larry Pardey as they share cruising budget tips they have learned during 45 years of voyaging, and from countless interviews with cruising sailors from dozens of different countries and walks of life.
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Get Ready to Cruise: Lin & Larry Pardey Cruising Tips Video

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A video by Lin & Larry Pardey Running time: 88 minutes Lin & Larry Pardey Cruising Tips Video demonstrates over two dozen tips to prepare you and your boat for offshore voyages. Follow their advice and make your vessel safer, easier to handle, and more enjoyable to sail. On board their 29 foot wooden cutter, Taleisin - the boat that was their home for over 100,000 miles of voyaging - learn how to get ready to cruise.
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Get Ready to Cross Oceans: Lin & Larry Pardey Ocean Sailing Tips Video

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A film by Lin and Larry Pardey Running time: 90 minutes. Lin & Larry Pardey Ocean Sailing Tips Video demonstrates over two dozen ocean sailing skills on board their 29 foot wooden cutter, Taleisin, the boat that was their home for over 25 years and 100,000 miles of ocean sailing. Get ready to cross oceans with the Pardeys.
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Storm Tactics: Lin & Larry Pardey Cape Horn Tested Video

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A film by Lin & Larry Pardey
Running time: 81 minutes. Lin & Larry Pardey Storm Tactics: Cape Horn Tested video delivers the skills you need to weather storms with confidence. It's the next best thing to having the Pardey's onboard, coaching you on storm tactics as the seas build and the rigging howls.
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Sail Vicarious Cruise Refit Video Series

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A video series by Spencer and Kathleen Bailey Running time: 8.5 hours. Join Spencer and Kathleen over a multi-year project as they locate the right cruising sailboat, make her ready for long range cruising. Then cast off with them as they cruise the U.S. eastern seaboard and venture offshore to the Bahamas and onto the Caribbean. You'll be there as they learn the hard way, correct mistakes, gain experience and confidence by doing, then reap the rewards of cruising aboard a well found vessel.
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Transatlantic Crossing with Don Street Video

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A film by Gavin Shaw Running time: 1 Hour 57 Minutes Classic trade wind 5,000 mile Transatlantic crossing shot in 1986 aboard legendary sailor/author Don Street's 1905 engineless 44 foot yawl, Iolaire. Documents Iolair's ninth Atlantic crossing from Ireland with eleven ocean islands along the way to Christmas in the Caribbean.
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Streetwise Tips 1- Heavy Weather Sailing Video

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A video by Rob Dubin with Don Street Running time: 56 minutes. This heavy weather sailing video with Don Street, legendary sailor and author, explains the preparation and tactics you need to take on boisterous seas. From the Sailing Quarterly Video Magazine library. In this 56-minute how-to sailing video, veteran charter skipper and sailing author, Don Street explains Heavy Weather Preparation and Sailing Tactics, Heaving To, Foredeck Work, Mainsail Flaking Systems, Emergency Sail Repairs, Distance Offshore & Simplified Celestial Navigation, and How to Rig Boom Preventers for jibe prevention.
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Streetwise Tips 2- Anchoring & Docking Video

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A video by Rob Dubin with Don Street Running time: 66 minutes. From the Sailing Quarterly Video Magazine collection, this how-to sailing video is hosted by veteran charter skipper and sailing author, Don Street. It includes a treasure trove of anchoring & docking tips that will make your cruising safer and more comfortable. In Vol. 2, Don demonstrates anchoring techniques; ways to prevent chafe; instructions on handy knots and whippings; methods to get you afloat when you go aground; and shorthanded docking.
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Streetwise Tips 2- Anchoring & Docking DVD

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A video by Rob Dubin with Don Street Running time: 66 minutes. From the Sailing Quarterly Video Magazine collection, this how-to sailing video is hosted by veteran charter skipper and sailing author, Don Street. It includes a treasure trove of anchoring & docking tips that will make your cruising safer and more comfortable. In Vol. 2, Don demonstrates anchoring techniques; ways to prevent chafe; instructions on handy knots and whippings; methods to get you afloat when you go aground; and shorthanded docking.

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Seamanship Training Video Vol. 1

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A video by Rob Dubin Running time: 53 minutes. From the Sailing Quarterly Video Magazine library, this seamanship video includes tips covering Anchor Penetration and Holding; Weather Forecasting and Routing; Anchoring under Sail; Securing a Mediterranean (Med) Mooring; and a Man Overboard (MOB) Recovery demonstration by the U.S. Naval Academy Sailing Team. (C1Z)
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Seamanship Training Video Vol. 2

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A video by Rob Dubin Running time: 53 minutes. From the Sailing Quarterly Video Magazine library, this seamanship video addresses Safety-at-Sea, Safety Equipment, and Sail Performance. Tips include: Man Overboard Recovery, Emergency Signals, Power Generation, Radar, Outfitting, and Maximize Boat Performance. (C2Z)
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Sail Trim & Performance Sailing Video with Gary Jobson

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A video by Rob Dubin hosted by Gary Jobson Running time: 66 minutes. From the Sailing Quarterly Video Magazine library. In this how-to sailing video, America's Cup champion, Gary Jobson, provides tips on all aspects of sail trim that will help you improve the performance of your boat, wether you race or cruise.(R1Z)
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