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Author: vincent bossley
Company: sailboat2adventure
Region: suite 2/7 Ronald Avenue, Narraweena, Sydney, Australia
Website: www.sailboat2adventure.com
Memorable Quote 1: 'You will NEVER regret doing it - You will ALWAYS regret NOT doing it'
Memorable Quote 2: 'DON'T dream about it - Get out there and DO it!'
Author Comment / Biography:
Vincent Bossley is a publisher and sailor living on the Northern Beaches of Sydney Australia. He has his own website for sailors www.sailboat2adventure.com dedicated to all sailors, planning sailors, armchair sailors, virtual sailors and indeed anyone who has ever dreamt of sailing off into the oceans of this beauitful planet of ours. He offers a very useful package of '101 Dollar Saving Tips for Sailors' that could save you many hundreds of dollars or even thousands during your voyage. Included absolutely FREE is his 135 page illustrated download ebook 'Voyage of the Little Ship 'Tere Moana' of his four year adventure to many of these exotic tropical paradises. A 'Ten Tip Plan' of what to look for when buying your dream sailboat by internationally renowned marine surveyor Mark Clarke is also FREE.He is passionate about getting you started on the planning of your odyssey. You can visit him anytime on www.sailboat2adventure.com Other books written by Vincent can be viewed and purchased at Amazon's 'Kindle' ebookstore, Smashwords, Barnes and Noble, Apple ibookstore, Kobo Books and Sony eBooks by typing in Vincent Bossley, author.
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21. Learn About Benefits of Water Towed Generators for Sailboats
April 06, 2009
The debate between wind generators, towed generators, solar power and the so called 'gensets' has been raging for years.
The fact is that in these days with all of the environmental issues surrounding us, installing a genset is just a non issue. A combination of air, solar and water power ge...
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22. Learn How to Install Jacklines Yourself on Your Own Sailboat
April 06, 2009
Call them what you will, jacklines, jackstays or safety lines, but these deck lines are essential for any cruiser/passagemaker. They are two lines running on your deck, bow to stern, port and starboard to which you can clip your harness snap shackle when you exit the cockpit. There are many...
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23. Learn About Sail Washing and Maintenance on Your Sailboat
April 03, 2009
Preparing to sail on a fine warm sunny day on Western Port Bay, Victoria, we decided to wash the mainsail which had become home to a family of nesting starlings a few weeks previously. You can understand that in a short space of a few weeks they had made quite a mess. Fortunately, the mixture of ne...
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24. Panama Canal to Galapagos Islands - Sailboat Adventures with Darwin
March 16, 2009
Plumb on the equator and a few degrees south of Panama lie the Galapagos Islands, nine hundred nautical miles to the west. Out of the Gulf of Panama and into a great bowl of swirling currents and counter currents, acting as a great collection point for all kinds of floating detritus, she must pass t...
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25. Batik Making in Beautiful Bora Bora
February 23, 2009
Apart from an aerial view, the best vantage point for viewing the encircling reef of Bora Bora is from the top of the twin peaks. Her captain and WK set off up the long track next morning, whilst sibling crew, using the excuse that our two men need some male bonding, prefers to go shopping in the vi...
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26. Panama Canal Transit by Sailboat
August 20, 2008
The dinghy pool at the PYC(Panama Yacht Club) contains a variety of underwater obstacles to snag the unwary approaching tender. Most of them are sharp and laying at exactly the right angle to slice through or hook into and tear the millimetres thick rubber of the bottom or sponsons. On their second ...
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27. Learn Emergency Repairs to Sailboat Forestay - Galapagos Islands
June 10, 2008
Back aboard our little ship, the captain decides it is time to run up the mast and un kink the vhf aerial, put out of alignment by the attempted but aborted landing of the baby booby. Out comes the bosuns chair, and lines onto the main winch. Anglo crew having the broadest shoulders by far, is winch...
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28. Learn How To Strip Your Winches, Re-Grease and Re-Assemble - Winches are a Cinch
May 07, 2008
Just returned from a few days sailing on the yacht of a good friend of mine. First day out we noticed that one of the main winches was a tad stiff and revolving none too smoothly. We decided to strip it down, clean it, re-grease and re-assemble it. This sounds a daunting task if you have nev...
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29. British Virgin Islands to San Blas Archipelago - Preparing for the Pacific
April 14, 2008
A shining morning arrives and early, she slips out of her berth and noses around to the fuel dock to receive a belly full of that awful and smelly but necessary diesel. She casts off again and suddenly, there it is, with her nose heading south west and feeling it in every fibre of her hull, the rout...
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30. Galapagos Islands - In the Footsteps of Darwin
March 29, 2008
GALAPAGOS ISLANDS – IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF DARWIN: Struggling up the long dusty street next morning, a windowless, wooden coach is spied in the distance. Clambering aboard and settling sweatily on the generously varnished wooden seats, it is already 27 degrees Celsius – thoughts of a long hot d...
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