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The Indian Ocean gear test: Nothing on the boat-not even the captain-is immune to the years at sea

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The captain of the boat, who have experienced the wear and tear while sailing the Indian Ocean discusses about the gears used in the boat he sailed. The captain learnt about the gears of boat while traveling on it, and lists those that worked, those that did not work and the gears that he changed and speaks about the simultaneous skin cancer that has worn him.

Author: Chiles, Webb
Publisher: World Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Cruising World
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0098-3519
Year: 2004
Speed Changer, Industrial High-Speed Drive, and Gear Manufacturing, Indian Ocean, Speed changers, drives, and gears, Speed Changers, Drives & Gears, Health aspects, Risk factors, Gearing, Gears

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Shore Line: Fast cat, big kite

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A crew who gathered at the docks of Lahaina Harbor in Maui, Hawaii, set up to sail the 'Paragon' a high-performance catamaran 90 miles to Oahu. Don Montague, one of the board members represented a rare opportunity to test the latest of his experimental giant-kites over long distances on a big boat instead of on a 32-foot Hawaiian outrigger canoe.

Author: Shaw, David.W.
Publisher: World Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Cruising World
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0098-3519
Year: 2005
United States

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Lessons from the year of the big Z

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The boat Hawke of Tronela the 37 feet heritage, the things it locked and the changes it requires in the future is explained. Webb Chiles voyager looks back on the good, the bad, and the ugly of a 12,000-mile zigzag across the Atlantic.

Author: Chiles, Webb
Publisher: World Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Cruising World
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0098-3519
Year: 2003
South Africa

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Subjects list: Practice, Sailors, Design and construction, Sailboats
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