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Top Tips to Better Sailing
	Here are time-tested tips to help keep your sailing day exciting and safe, gathered over the years from old seasoned salts and from those who sometimes learned the hard way. Extra: Your Sailing Toolbox

Sailboat Passenger Do's & Don'ts
From what your passengers should bring (and not!), to coping with seasickness, and keeping your sailboat crew entertained, able, and whole. More: Sailing Tales Stories true and most likely not, for long days adrift.

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Your career future in sailing and marine jobs: how to start and grow.

Tales from the deep:
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Sea chaplain for weddings & memorials

Custom Clinics
One-one-one confidence clinic for newbies. Details

Sailing Terms Every Sailor Should Know
	Learning to sail takes mastering a second language; a collection of salty words cobbled from tongues ancient and scattered, that rarely seems to describe what a part actually does. Here's a sampling. Tool: How-to Sail Library Best Links: Jobs for Mariners

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How-to-Sail Article Archive
How to pick a boat, pick a crew, pick your days, and much more in this expert collection.

Sailing Toolbox
Your sailing kit: how to trim your sails, set an anchor, navigate home, weather through a storm, crawl through a fog, and many other essentials.

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