CRUISING
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Happy ending
What a long, great trip it’s been: Massachusetts, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, Panama Canal, Galápagos, Mar...
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CRUISING THE TUAMOTU ARCHIPELAGO: Where beauty means danger
With 77 atolls sprawled over 130,000 nautical miles in the South Pacific east of Tahiti, the Tuamotu...
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Cruising the Society Islands; Paradise found, glossed, or lost?
Tahiti and the Society Islands have always been many things to many voyagers: a dream, an aspiration...
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Marquesas – the real, real world
Tom and Harriet Linskey break their trans-Pacific journey at the isolated Marquesas Islands, halfway...
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Getting to Galapagos
The 830-mile passage from Panama to the Galapagos – the most direct way home for Kiwi circumnavigato...
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The short-cut between the seas
Me, go around Cape Horn? Seriously? Do I want to brave roaring high-latitude gales just to earn an e...
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Puerto Rico to Panama
In the last issue, Tom and Harriet had made it as far as Puerto Rico – two hops out of three on thei...
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New Bedford to Puerto Rico
Charts exert a powerful pull for New Zealand sailors. Ever since we’d cruised the trade wind ‘Milk R...
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NEW REGULAR COLUMN: A new name for a new beginning
Tom and Harriet Linskey had some misgivings about renaming their faithful yacht of many years, but w...
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