Attainable Adventure Cruising

A comprehensive online reference book on offshore voyaging, boat maintenance, and sailboat cruising.

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If ever there was a task where details matter it’s building a mooring to withstand a hurricane. Here are a few changes we made for this season.
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These days, it’s easy to assume that only a totally out of touch luddite would replace the batteries on a cruising boat with anything other than lithium. That’s more wrong today than it has ever been.

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So what is the perfect length for a cruising boat? Wrong question. Right question: What's the right displace for my intended use:
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When was the last time your lifejackets felt the love:

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A source of boat fires that fuses won't save you from:
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The first step to a good cruising boat electrical system:

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You may think you understand how batteries charge (lithium or lead acid) but you probably don't:

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So what limit of vanishing stability do you need to be safe offshore? And engineer opines:

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Vital things you need to know to select the right cruising boat that you will never learn on YouTube:

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So we all know we need four dock lines, but do we need more:

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The real numbers you need to choose the right cruising boat for you:
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An expert shares how to fix a fin keel sailboat that has had a hard grounding better than new.
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Years ago we could get away with a volt meter, but in these days of ever-more complex DC electrical systems, a good battery monitor is required.
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Most all of us know we should fuse our batteries, but did you know we need another fuse in series to be compliant and safe from fire:

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Many boats get badly damaged in a grounding, even at quite low speeds, but it does not need to be that way.
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Be part of the annual AAC Zoom meeting with John and AAC Supporters—fun, interesting and useful.
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Cruisers are divided into two groups, those who have run aground and admit it, and those who lie about it—a deep dive from one of the former.
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FREE Tip. At last Canada is getting right on the DSC feature of person overboard beacons.

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Little things that can matter a lot if things go wrong in the night.
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In these days of reliable diesel engines we mostly see sailors taking the sails down before entering a harbour, but there is a better way.

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