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Weather to go in 30 minutes

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Lack of information about weather can turn an interesting cruise into a stressful and potentially dangerous ordeal. A cruiser discusses the weather resources used aboard the ship Morgan's Cloud including NOAA FTPMAIL server, GRIB file wind and pressure plotting, E-mail servers, software tools like ThumbsPlus and Xaxero's weather fax 2000, and weather study material like Weather Predicting Simplified by Michael William Carr.

Author: Haries, John
Publisher: World Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Cruising World
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0098-3519
Year: 2003
Greenland, Technology application, Weather forecasting

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Sailor profile: Around the world in a teacup

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Nils Bennich-Bjorkman has nurtured an affair with sailing canoes while following his dream of seeing new and exotic places around the world under sail for fifteen years. The experiences of his first voyage across Pacific on board his canoe Peter Pan, a 21-foot sailing craft that he designed and built himself, are described.

Author: Ericson, Kicki
Publisher: World Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Cruising World
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0098-3519
Year: 2005
Bennich-Bjorkman, Nils

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One last cruise: New-age Noah of obstruction pass

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Eighty-five year old App Applegate's Aproximada, cold-molded-wood brigantine, is getting ready for the 2004 launch. The plan is to skid her down the mountain on a seven-ton steel plate.

Author: Halabisky, Bruce
Publisher: World Publications, Inc.
Publication Name: Cruising World
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0098-3519
Year: 2003
Applegate, App

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