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  1. Stuart, FL to Nassau
  2. Maiden Voyage
  3. Tides
  4. Confession
  5. The True Story Of Seven Twinkies (a funny story)
  6. Smart Thing Done While Doing Something Dumb...
  7. Worst Storms
  8. Yard to Make Money
  9. Used Boats Websites - Europe
  10. Pushing My Envelope While 'Kroozing' Locally
  11. Shafted
  12. Dumb Question? 'Beaching' vs 'Running Aground'
  13. First Passage Turns into Many Firsts
  14. A REALLY Stupid Thing Done While Doing a Stupid Thing
  15. Laughing Stock of the Marina...
  16. Ever Want to Throw In the Towel?
  17. If I Knew Then What I Know Now
  18. Locked-Up
  19. Getting Fat Bums On Board
  20. Bill didn't look like he'd land on New York
  21. A Momentary Lapse of Reason
  22. Silly Things Seen at the Boat Launch
  23. Bumper Boats
  24. Almost Fouled the Prop Learning to Gybe the Spinnaker
  25. Seasickness While Single-Handing
  26. First Sailing / Sea Book You Ever Read?
  27. Big Ship, Little Boat - Stupidity
  28. All-Night Sail Across Chesapeake on July 10th
  29. Boy am I LUCKY!
  30. Working on a Less-than-Perfect Boat!
  31. Storm Chasing
  32. Exciting Morning Sail
  33. I'm Back
  34. Do You Wander Down and Look at...
  35. Are You One in A Million?
  36. Mother Nature Doesn't Like Showoffs
  37. Be Careful Pushing VHF Buttons
  38. Psycho Crew from Hell!
  39. San Diego Bay Whale Story
  40. Some Days - Stay in Bed!
  41. Hurricane Ike Aftermath Pics
  42. Lessons Learned
  43. Bahamas Boat Ramming
  44. Ever Been Hit by a Flying Fish?
  45. Never Trust an Engine!
  46. Never Give Up!
  47. The Captain Dashed Below ...
  48. My First 'Big' Trip
  49. Check the Oil, Dummy!
  50. Coming Out of Winter Hibernation
  51. Have You Found Things Years into a Boat?
  52. Throw it Overboard
  53. Is it called a Kedge?
  54. Tugs and Barges
  55. Asleep at the Wheel While Underway
  56. Spreadsheet for Boat-Buying Comparison?
  57. old threads, new postings
  58. Member’s Short Stories about Boating
  59. Falling for another.
  60. Knot ready yet?!?
  61. typical port fiasco.
  62. Turning Turtle in a Yacht
  63. Well that was fun
  64. Oops - Should Have Checked That!
  65. Sinking my motor boat dockside
  66. What is it with some people?
  67. Sneaky Tactics
  68. Anchoring for Dummies - Partner Style
  69. West System Epoxy Slurpee
  70. Battery Trouble
  71. co2 vs efficient life style
  72. Little Murka
  73. if you are going to take a nap make sure there is sufficient depth under the boat
  74. What is that clicking sound?
  75. Slight Dismasting
  76. your max. force you have experienced?
  77. How Does this Engine Shut Down?
  78. Alcohol Stoves and Fighting Fires
  79. Can't get away from the dock
  80. I usually only do really dumb things once
  81. Message-in-a-Bottle - Launched / Found?
  82. Health and saftey
  83. The Importance of Going Cruising NOW!
  84. Medical Assistance - taken for granted?
  85. When the job isn't going "fast enough" for you on your boat
  86. Paid me to re anchor
  87. What happened?
  88. Rescue in the Chesapeake
  89. Thunderstorm in the Swedish archipelago
  90. WOW, docking for fuel in 55 knot wind NOT
  91. Sensed something wrong when I woke up
  92. A Series of Unrelated Events
  93. Knockdown
  94. When it almost hit the fan
  95. Whale 3 miles offshore Fire Island
  96. Topic/Thread Set and drift.
  97. First Step
  98. Cruisers that gave it up?
  99. No More Company...EVER.
  100. What if chasing the dream means you have to give up a relationship?
  101. How well does wine age
  102. Do you ever talk to your boat?
  103. Sailing "uphill"
  104. Slip Slidin' Away
  105. What's the Worst Thing You've Ever Hit?
  106. podcast interview with Web Chiles...
  107. water in the hole
  108. OOPS!
  109. Yachtsman calls local pub for help
  110. Boarding your boat
  111. First Time as Engineer
  112. OK, I stuffed up again.
  113. Bungee's ARE dangerous!
  114. Anchoring mistakes
  115. haricane fossey
  116. wiseleyb- See what you missed
  117. Launched- and I mean LAUNCHED! Overboard!
  118. Various misadventures in the 70s
  119. Hard to believe we got away with this one.
  120. Salutory experience
  121. Life Ashore
  122. Strange lights.
  123. It was a dark and starless night--
  124. So, I almost killed myself again
  125. Ready to learn
  126. File this under...
  127. Singlehanding - Sleeping - Good Idea?
  128. docking at the end of a sailing day
  129. Curse the curser
  130. Emergency Tiller
  131. Saving Cecilia B
  132. The Weather makes the schedule
  133. Sailing Rules (starboard)
  134. The "Best Laid Plans Cruise"
  135. 1st Sail Ever
  136. 1st Boat lesson
  137. Trying to sink boat, attempt No2
  138. Leaving Rio
  139. The Stress Free Life of Sailing
  140. Cabin sole awash!
  141. <rant on> ColRegs
  142. A Run-In With Tankership Evergreen
  143. How to Explode Your Boat
  144. Oh Yeah We're Goin to Surf City, Gonna Have Some Fun...
  145. lil' boo boo today
  146. Man Overboard Drill
  147. my boat is sailing away...
  148. Captains Licence-Government Conspiracy
  149. Yard Bill Blues
  150. The Bitter End
  151. The Gulf Stream in a Hurricaine
  152. Little Boat & Big Water
  153. Crossing the Gulfstream
  154. Got Beat Up Today
  155. Proven Again - H2O & Electrons Don't Mix
  156. Thanksgiving...
  157. something from nothing
  158. My exciting introduction to the sea...
  159. Yeah it's me in this forum...again...
  160. Things that go Bump!!!
  161. Flying Compass
  162. Kicking myself, but glad I can.
  163. In over my head
  164. Flying Pig Prevention Measures
  165. "I learned about sailing from that"
  166. Dumpster Diving Season is OPEN
  167. Cradle collapses at Mana wrecking yacht
  168. Story of a retired sailor
  169. Boat ramp antics
  170. Good bye "Sew Good"
  171. Almost disaster
  172. Ooops
  173. Stuck in the MUD!!
  174. Her first time...
  175. Lessons taught by a Port Engineer (Tugs)
  176. Confessional Booth
  177. Navigating a unknown harbor at night
  178. Went for a dip in the st lucie river....
  179. Darwin in action...
  180. "Ethan Allen" - NTSB Capsizing Synopsis
  181. Back from the dead ..... so to speak :)
  182. A picture is worth a thousand words
  183. Apologies
  184. Yacht mishap in Oz
  185. Shipping parts OverSeas-UPS -nightmare
  186. Just a reminder it's the little things...that get you
  187. Gulf Stream Crossing Goes Bad
  188. Mont Blanc and Imo and the Halifax Explosion of 1917
  189. How NOT to Anchor...
  190. Exploding paperweight costs teacher his hand
  191. Towing Near Miss
  192. Cruise Ships
  193. Who Says This Wouldn't Ever Happen?
  194. Katrina Cleanup
  195. Inexcusable!!
  196. San Diego Marina Fire
  197. Ugly incident
  198. Mayday
  199. Narcs nab drug-smuggling puppies
  200. hitch hikeing to freeport
  201. Locations Of Sunken Or Abandoned Ships & Boats
  202. What would you do?
  203. Offshore losses
  204. Link to video attached
  205. Recall Notices
  206. Rescue of Tomacho
  207. CO - wow....
  208. Discovery
  209. New docking procedures--Oooops
  210. This is new!
  211. 10 Dumb Mistakes
  212. technical difficulties
  213. These Days in History
  214. One that was not so bad.
  215. The Delivery that Wasn't 'Too Easy'
  216. Ex wife in and out of Dinghy
  217. BOOOOM!
  218. Disaster Aid
  219. Chaos Below
  220. broken steering chain
  221. stuck on a sand bar
  222. How much do you trust the weatherman?
  223. pioneering a "new" route
  224. I thought I was wrong...
  225. Learnt from bitter Experience rule 103 - never drop anchor near derelict wharves
  226. Things I learnt from my grounding
  227. Running aground
  228. How to get under a low bridge!
  229. Set Adrift
  230. repatriation problems
  231. I had to laugh
  232. Bilge Pump Failures ?
  233. Do it NOW
  234. boat , money
  235. Don't want your name here?!!