From
Cruising World - Feb 1999
THE LIGHT RAIN that began the previous day had now become
a down-pour. Riding on two anchors in Bora-Bora, French
Polynesia, Polaris, an Islander 53, tugged gently at her
tethers at first, then began to heel as the wind strengthened
to a furious 60 knots...
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From
Men's Health Magazine - Jul 1995
To the man used to locomoting on terra 6rma, piloting
a sailboat is like entering another dimension. Nothing
he's learned about how to make things go and stop and
turn on solid ground works on water. But all that can
change in a matter of days at a good sailing school...
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From
Sailing Magazine - Dec 1994
On the night before I was to jump into San Francisco Bay
as part of an exercise on recovering lost crewmembers,
I dreamed of hulls slowly sinking in eerie silence and
bodies floating face down in cold, dark water. The fact
that champion sailor Larry Klein had just...
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From
Latitude 38 - Aug 2000
As an avid Latitude 38 reader, I've found that I have
gained great insights and knowledge about sailing through
other people's experiences that I've read about in the
magazine. Now it's my turn to share an experience I recently
enjoyed with John Connolly of Modern Sailing Academy...
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From
Blue Water Sailing - Feb 1999
The program: Modern Sailing Academy (MSA) has 16 cruising
boats up to 53 feet LOA that serve as classrooms for what
it terms "a non-confrontational, non-militaristic
teaching style of instruction." MSA believes that
there is more than one way to solve a seamanship problem
offshore...
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From
American Cruising- Jun/Jul 2001
Modern Sailing Academy's October 2000 Mediterranean "ADVENTURE
SAILING PROGRAM" featured a journey from the Spanish
Island of Majorca to Palermo Sicily with route and stopover
locations subject to wind direction and crew preferences.
"No wind at all or...
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