- Cancelling
- Six Hundred Passengers Stuck on Showboat Run Aground in Missouri
- Taking on Water Is NOT Fun . . .
- You Know What Doesn't Go Well with Boats? Fire!
- Then
- Really Scared
- Caught Out when I Had a Leak
- Up Until Recently, I Thought Only the Gulf of Aden Could Become a Nightmare . . .
- My Lucky Wire
- Don't Trust the Weather Channel, etc . . .
- Spatial Disorientation
- Poor Seamanship - Anchoring
- What Did You . . . and What Do You ?
- Make Sure You Have a Good Grip !
- Stupid Is as Stupid Does
- Experience with Batteries
- Yet Another Grounding Story
- 'Born on Date' of Your First Boating Sin !
- Don't Blame Me !
- How NOT to Operate Your Outboard . . .
- So, I Cleaned Out My Fuel Tank, Re-Sealed it, then . . .
- Fate of Mid-Ocean, Abandoned Boats
- Lessons Learned from a Knockdown
- Transmission and Propeller Shaft Decoupled Out in the Open
- Responsible
- Ultimate Test and Experience
- Where the Water Meets Land
- Nic Goes . . . and I Go Solo
- Against All Odds ?
- Too Many Crab Pots !
- My First Sea Tow - Bleh
- Crew Horror Stories
- Cruisers Will Do Anything to Save a Buck !
- A Rant . . . OK, a Moan
- Aground in Boston Harbor
- Fire in the Galley
- Hot Foot in the Engine Room
- I Pulled Up a Tree
- Solar Oven Failure
- Fabulous Trip in PNW
- Sneaking the Holding Tank Overboard
- Can You Really Sail 14 Degrees Off the Wind ?
- Furler Problem + Heavy Wind
- Reid Stowe, I Presume ?
- I Thought I Fixed the Problem
- First Time Sailing (Long-Winded Version)
- Vive la Difference !
- What Would You Buy, for...
- Crew a Charter Cat ?
- Options for Non-Mass-Produced Boats
- Sudden Attraction to Hunters
- 'Makai' Has Been Sold - Depression Strikes !
- The Kindness of Strangers
- Picks and Rocks
- Float Plans
- Water Balloon Launcher
- How Safe Is Your Gangway ?
- A Typical Boat Day
- Truck Crane Through My Love-Boat
- It's Only Wind
- More Magic Blue Smoke than I Could Handle !
- Crazed-Cat Boat Antics
- Opening Day on the SF Bay
- No Rudder ?
- Docking Injury
- Steering Uh-Oh
- Taking a Friend Along Who Has 'Lots of Experience'
- A Sail Is Always Important...
- Liveaboard Exercise
- Disaster! Need Help ASAP!
- The Case of the Long Walk
- The Things We Cheapskates Do
- Marooned
- Navigation Error = Almost Lost the Lot
- Name Something You Have Done
- Recent Grounding of Cheoy Lee 41 off Vieques
- Involuntarily Singlehanded
- First Grounding
- Sorry Vendors - But I Am a Sailor, Not a Consumer...
- A Weekend of Firsts: Sailing and Saints
- First Sail
- The Boats that Ate Percy
- Loss of 'Moonduster'
- Read the Manual
- Luperon? Be Aware...
- An Expensive Weekend! Lessons Learned from Running Aground
- It's Sort of a Good Idea to Check the Weather First...
- Grounding !
- My Only Knockdown
- My Confession
- The Fear Experienced by Loved Ones Left Ashore
- Sea Trial # 1
- Clean Boat Outside - Disaster Inside
- You'd Think I'd Know Better by Now...
- Stuart, FL to Nassau
- Maiden Voyage
- Tides
- Confession
- The True Story Of Seven Twinkies (a funny story)
- Smart Thing Done While Doing Something Dumb...
- Worst Storms
- Yard to Make Money
- Used Boats Websites - Europe
- Pushing My Envelope While 'Kroozing' Locally
- Shafted
- Dumb Question? 'Beaching' vs 'Running Aground'
- First Passage Turns into Many Firsts
- A REALLY Stupid Thing Done While Doing a Stupid Thing
- Laughing Stock of the Marina...
- Ever Want to Throw In the Towel?
- If I Knew Then What I Know Now
- Locked-Up
- Getting Fat Bums On Board
- Bill didn't look like he'd land on New York
- A Momentary Lapse of Reason
- Silly Things Seen at the Boat Launch
- Bumper Boats
- Almost Fouled the Prop Learning to Gybe the Spinnaker
- Seasickness While Single-Handing
- Big Ship, Little Boat - Stupidity
- All-Night Sail Across Chesapeake on July 10th
- Boy am I LUCKY!
- Working on a Less-than-Perfect Boat!
- Storm Chasing
- Exciting Morning Sail
- I'm Back
- Do You Wander Down and Look at . . .
- Are You One in A Million?
- Mother Nature Doesn't Like Showoffs
- Be Careful Pushing VHF Buttons
- Psycho Crew from Hell!
- San Diego Bay Whale Story
- Some Days - Stay in Bed!
- Hurricane Ike Aftermath Pics
- Lessons Learned
- Bahamas Boat Ramming
- Ever Been Hit by a Flying Fish?
- Never Trust an Engine!
- Never Give Up!
- The Captain Dashed Below ...
- My First 'Big' Trip
- Check the Oil, Dummy!
- Coming Out of Winter Hibernation
- Have You Found Things Years into a Boat?
- Throw it Overboard
- Is it called a Kedge?
- Tugs and Barges
- Asleep at the Wheel While Underway
- Spreadsheet for Boat-Buying Comparison?
- old threads, new postings
- Bought a Boat with No Experience? #2
- Member’s Short Stories about Boating
- Falling for another.
- Knot ready yet?!?
- Typical Port Fiasco
- Turning Turtle in a Yacht
- Well that was fun
- Oops - Should Have Checked That!
- Sinking my motor boat dockside
- What is it with some people?
- Sneaky Tactics
- Anchoring for Dummies - Partner Style
- West System Epoxy Slurpee
- Battery Trouble
- co2 vs efficient life style
- Little Murka
- If You Are Going to Take a Nap, Make Sure There Is Sufficient Depth Under the Boat
- What Is that Clicking Sound ?
- Slight Dismasting
- your max. force you have experienced?
- How Does this Engine Shut Down?
- Alcohol Stoves and Fighting Fires
- Can't get away from the dock
- I usually only do really dumb things once
- Message-in-a-Bottle - Launched / Found?
- Health and saftey
- The Importance of Going Cruising NOW!
- Medical Assistance - taken for granted?
- When the job isn't going "fast enough" for you on your boat
- Paid me to re anchor
- What happened?
- Rescue in the Chesapeake
- Thunderstorm in the Swedish archipelago
- WOW, docking for fuel in 55 knot wind NOT
- Sensed something wrong when I woke up
- A Series of Unrelated Events
- Knockdown
- When it almost hit the fan
- Whale 3 miles offshore Fire Island
- Topic/Thread Set and drift.
- First Step
- Cruisers that gave it up?
- No More Company...EVER.
- What if chasing the dream means you have to give up a relationship?
- How well does wine age
- Do you ever talk to your boat?
- Sailing "uphill"
- Slip Slidin' Away
- What's the Worst Thing You've Ever Hit?
- podcast interview with Web Chiles...
- water in the hole
- OOPS!
- Yachtsman calls local pub for help
- Boarding your boat
- First Time as Engineer
- OK, I stuffed up again.
- Bungee's ARE dangerous!
- Anchoring mistakes
- haricane fossey
- wiseleyb- See what you missed
- Launched- and I mean LAUNCHED! Overboard!
- Various misadventures in the 70s
- Hard to believe we got away with this one.
- Salutory experience
- Life Ashore
- Strange lights.
- It was a dark and starless night--
- So, I almost killed myself again
- Ready to learn
- File this under...
- Singlehanding - Sleeping - Good Idea ?
- docking at the end of a sailing day
- Curse the curser
- Emergency Tiller
- Saving Cecilia B
- The Weather makes the schedule
- Sailing Rules (starboard)
- The "Best Laid Plans Cruise"
- 1st Sail Ever
- 1st Boat lesson
- Trying to sink boat, attempt No2
- Leaving Rio
- The Stress Free Life of Sailing
- Cabin sole awash!
- <rant on> ColRegs
- A Run-In With Tankership Evergreen
- How to Explode Your Boat
- Oh Yeah We're Goin to Surf City, Gonna Have Some Fun...
- lil' boo boo today
- Man Overboard Drill
- my boat is sailing away...
- Captains Licence-Government Conspiracy
- Yard Bill Blues
- The Bitter End
- The Gulf Stream in a Hurricaine
- Little Boat & Big Water
- Crossing the Gulfstream
- Got Beat Up Today
- Proven Again - H2O & Electrons Don't Mix
- Thanksgiving...