Making friends with pilings and seawalls

Article Abstract:

Sailors, who spend their boat-handling attention on trying to stay away from docks and pilings, should invest in a sturdy rubrail that can offer lots of leverage in tricky docking situations. Guidelines for sailors to improve their technique in two fundamental categories, namely, pivoting on pilings and levering off seawalls, are presented.

United States, Management dynamics, Methods, Practice

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A man of strong medicine

Article Abstract:

On their South Pacific voyage, a cruising couple sought relief from debilitating pain from a traditional Tongan healer who administered medicines extracted from local plants. This miracle cured the female partner from her acute abdominal pain that other doctors could not treat.

Tonga, Care and treatment, Dosage and administration, Folk medicine, Traditional medicine, Medicine, Primitive, Acute abdomen

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The safest rhumb line to Oz

Article Abstract:

Scott Bannerot and his wife Wendy Bannerot talk about their voyaging to Bundaberg, Australia through Samoa, Tonga, Fiji, Vanuata. They give a detailed account of there sailing through the sublime Australia's eastern coastline.

Australia, Personal narratives

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