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  1. Fort Lauderdale - Labor for Lessons
  2. Newbie Mistake in 20 mph Winds
  3. Prop Shaft Broke, Taking on Water
  4. Lurkers
  5. Cats Getting into the Bilge
  6. Second Thoughts During a Storm
  7. Fear
  8. Cancelling
  9. Six Hundred Passengers Stuck on Showboat Run Aground in Missouri
  10. Taking on Water Is NOT Fun . . .
  11. You Know What Doesn't Go Well with Boats? Fire!
  12. Then
  13. Really Scared
  14. Caught Out when I Had a Leak
  15. Up Until Recently, I Thought Only the Gulf of Aden Could Become a Nightmare . . .
  16. My Lucky Wire
  17. Don't Trust the Weather Channel, etc . . .
  18. Spatial Disorientation
  19. Poor Seamanship - Anchoring
  20. What Did You . . . and What Do You ?
  21. Make Sure You Have a Good Grip !
  22. Stupid Is as Stupid Does
  23. Experience with Batteries
  24. Yet Another Grounding Story
  25. 'Born on Date' of Your First Boating Sin !
  26. Don't Blame Me !
  27. How NOT to Operate Your Outboard . . .
  28. So, I Cleaned Out My Fuel Tank, Re-Sealed it, then . . .
  29. Fate of Mid-Ocean, Abandoned Boats
  30. Lessons Learned from a Knockdown
  31. Transmission and Propeller Shaft Decoupled Out in the Open
  32. Responsible
  33. Ultimate Test and Experience
  34. Where the Water Meets Land
  35. Nic Goes . . . and I Go Solo
  36. Against All Odds ?
  37. Too Many Crab Pots !
  38. My First Sea Tow - Bleh
  39. Crew Horror Stories
  40. Cruisers Will Do Anything to Save a Buck !
  41. A Rant . . . OK, a Moan
  42. Aground in Boston Harbor
  43. Fire in the Galley
  44. Hot Foot in the Engine Room
  45. I Pulled Up a Tree
  46. Solar Oven Failure
  47. Fabulous Trip in PNW
  48. Sneaking the Holding Tank Overboard
  49. Can You Really Sail 14 Degrees Off the Wind ?
  50. Furler Problem + Heavy Wind
  51. Reid Stowe, I Presume ?
  52. I Thought I Fixed the Problem
  53. First Time Sailing (Long-Winded Version)
  54. Vive la Difference !
  55. What Would You Buy, for...
  56. Crew a Charter Cat ?
  57. Options for Non-Mass-Produced Boats
  58. Sudden Attraction to Hunters
  59. 'Makai' Has Been Sold - Depression Strikes !
  60. The Kindness of Strangers
  61. Picks and Rocks
  62. Float Plans
  63. Water Balloon Launcher
  64. How Safe Is Your Gangway ?
  65. A Typical Boat Day
  66. Truck Crane Through My Love-Boat
  67. It's Only Wind
  68. More Magic Blue Smoke than I Could Handle !
  69. Crazed-Cat Boat Antics
  70. Opening Day on the SF Bay
  71. No Rudder ?
  72. Docking Injury
  73. Steering Uh-Oh
  74. Taking a Friend Along Who Has 'Lots of Experience'
  75. A Sail Is Always Important...
  76. Liveaboard Exercise
  77. Disaster! Need Help ASAP!
  78. The Case of the Long Walk
  79. The Things We Cheapskates Do
  80. Marooned
  81. Navigation Error = Almost Lost the Lot
  82. Name Something You Have Done
  83. Recent Grounding of Cheoy Lee 41 off Vieques
  84. Involuntarily Singlehanded
  85. First Grounding
  86. Sorry Vendors - But I Am a Sailor, Not a Consumer...
  87. A Weekend of Firsts: Sailing and Saints
  88. First Sail
  89. The Boats that Ate Percy
  90. Loss of 'Moonduster'
  91. Read the Manual
  92. Luperon? Be Aware...
  93. An Expensive Weekend! Lessons Learned from Running Aground
  94. It's Sort of a Good Idea to Check the Weather First...
  95. Grounding !
  96. My Only Knockdown
  97. My Confession
  98. The Fear Experienced by Loved Ones Left Ashore
  99. Sea Trial # 1
  100. Clean Boat Outside - Disaster Inside
  101. You'd Think I'd Know Better by Now...
  102. Stuart, FL to Nassau
  103. Maiden Voyage
  104. Tides
  105. Confession
  106. The True Story Of Seven Twinkies (a funny story)
  107. Smart Thing Done While Doing Something Dumb...
  108. Worst Storms
  109. Yard to Make Money
  110. Used Boats Websites - Europe
  111. Pushing My Envelope While 'Kroozing' Locally
  112. Shafted
  113. Dumb Question? 'Beaching' vs 'Running Aground'
  114. First Passage Turns into Many Firsts
  115. A REALLY Stupid Thing Done While Doing a Stupid Thing
  116. Laughing Stock of the Marina...
  117. Ever Want to Throw In the Towel?
  118. If I Knew Then What I Know Now
  119. Locked-Up
  120. Getting Fat Bums On Board
  121. Bill didn't look like he'd land on New York
  122. A Momentary Lapse of Reason
  123. Silly Things Seen at the Boat Launch
  124. Bumper Boats
  125. Almost Fouled the Prop Learning to Gybe the Spinnaker
  126. Seasickness While Single-Handing
  127. Big Ship, Little Boat - Stupidity
  128. All-Night Sail Across Chesapeake on July 10th
  129. Boy am I LUCKY!
  130. Working on a Less-than-Perfect Boat!
  131. Storm Chasing
  132. Exciting Morning Sail
  133. I'm Back
  134. Do You Wander Down and Look at . . .
  135. Are You One in A Million?
  136. Mother Nature Doesn't Like Showoffs
  137. Be Careful Pushing VHF Buttons
  138. Psycho Crew from Hell!
  139. San Diego Bay Whale Story
  140. Some Days - Stay in Bed!
  141. Hurricane Ike Aftermath Pics
  142. Lessons Learned
  143. Bahamas Boat Ramming
  144. Ever Been Hit by a Flying Fish?
  145. Never Trust an Engine!
  146. Never Give Up!
  147. The Captain Dashed Below ...
  148. My First 'Big' Trip
  149. Check the Oil, Dummy!
  150. Coming Out of Winter Hibernation
  151. Have You Found Things Years into a Boat?
  152. Throw it Overboard
  153. Is it called a Kedge?
  154. Tugs and Barges
  155. Asleep at the Wheel While Underway
  156. Spreadsheet for Boat-Buying Comparison?
  157. old threads, new postings
  158. Bought a Boat with No Experience? #2
  159. Member’s Short Stories about Boating
  160. Falling for another.
  161. Knot ready yet?!?
  162. Typical Port Fiasco
  163. Turning Turtle in a Yacht
  164. Well that was fun
  165. Oops - Should Have Checked That!
  166. Sinking my motor boat dockside
  167. What is it with some people?
  168. Sneaky Tactics
  169. Anchoring for Dummies - Partner Style
  170. West System Epoxy Slurpee
  171. Battery Trouble
  172. co2 vs efficient life style
  173. Little Murka
  174. If You Are Going to Take a Nap, Make Sure There Is Sufficient Depth Under the Boat
  175. What Is that Clicking Sound ?
  176. Slight Dismasting
  177. your max. force you have experienced?
  178. How Does this Engine Shut Down?
  179. Alcohol Stoves and Fighting Fires
  180. Can't get away from the dock
  181. I usually only do really dumb things once
  182. Message-in-a-Bottle - Launched / Found?
  183. Health and saftey
  184. The Importance of Going Cruising NOW!
  185. Medical Assistance - taken for granted?
  186. When the job isn't going "fast enough" for you on your boat
  187. Paid me to re anchor
  188. What happened?
  189. Rescue in the Chesapeake
  190. Thunderstorm in the Swedish archipelago
  191. WOW, docking for fuel in 55 knot wind NOT
  192. Sensed something wrong when I woke up
  193. A Series of Unrelated Events
  194. Knockdown
  195. When it almost hit the fan
  196. Whale 3 miles offshore Fire Island
  197. Topic/Thread Set and drift.
  198. First Step
  199. Cruisers that gave it up?
  200. No More Company...EVER.
  201. What if chasing the dream means you have to give up a relationship?
  202. How well does wine age
  203. Do you ever talk to your boat?
  204. Sailing "uphill"
  205. Slip Slidin' Away
  206. What's the Worst Thing You've Ever Hit?
  207. podcast interview with Web Chiles...
  208. water in the hole
  209. OOPS!
  210. Yachtsman calls local pub for help
  211. Boarding your boat
  212. First Time as Engineer
  213. OK, I stuffed up again.
  214. Bungee's ARE dangerous!
  215. Anchoring mistakes
  216. haricane fossey
  217. wiseleyb- See what you missed
  218. Launched- and I mean LAUNCHED! Overboard!
  219. Various misadventures in the 70s
  220. Hard to believe we got away with this one.
  221. Salutory experience
  222. Life Ashore
  223. Strange lights.
  224. It was a dark and starless night--
  225. So, I almost killed myself again
  226. Ready to learn
  227. File this under...
  228. Singlehanding - Sleeping - Good Idea ?
  229. docking at the end of a sailing day
  230. Curse the curser
  231. Emergency Tiller
  232. Saving Cecilia B
  233. The Weather makes the schedule
  234. Sailing Rules (starboard)
  235. The "Best Laid Plans Cruise"
  236. 1st Sail Ever
  237. 1st Boat lesson
  238. Trying to sink boat, attempt No2
  239. Leaving Rio
  240. The Stress Free Life of Sailing
  241. Cabin sole awash!
  242. <rant on> ColRegs
  243. A Run-In With Tankership Evergreen
  244. How to Explode Your Boat
  245. Oh Yeah We're Goin to Surf City, Gonna Have Some Fun...
  246. lil' boo boo today
  247. Man Overboard Drill
  248. my boat is sailing away...
  249. Captains Licence-Government Conspiracy
  250. Yard Bill Blues