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Vulcan or M2: the anchor question I can't close yet
I can calculate the chain weight to the kilogram, and I still can't decide which anchor goes on the bow.
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Las Palmas to Rodney Bay: the 17-day crossing I'm planning around the calendar
I've priced the Atlantic crossing in days, not dollars: 17 of them, leaving in early December, with weather criteria written down before the party invitations arrive.
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The 20-knot reef rule I'm writing down before I own the boat
One line about wind pressure being squared changed the number I'm putting on the nav station card.
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A 2014 Fountaine Pajot Helia 44 in Fort Lauderdale, $459,000 — what I'd actually offer
Somebody spent five years and what looks like six figures fixing everything I'd worry about, and now I have to decide if I believe the paperwork.
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6.9 per 1,000: the lightning number I didn't want to find
I sat down to read about windlass amp draw and fell into a BoatUS claims-data hole instead — now I can't unsee what it says about multihulls.
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The six-day window I keep rehearsing: Tonga to Opua
On this leg the passage and the weather cycle are the same length, and the insurance date doesn't care about the window.
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The $8,951 lithium line I can't close
Three Victron batteries priced out to the dollar, and one clause in the new ABYC E-13 that made me stop trusting the total.
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The Chapter Written by Twelve Cruising Kids
I read this one backward — the only chapter I really needed was written by a dozen kids who already did what we're about to do to ours.
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Seven Outremers, Five Lagoons
The ARC+ entry list is the closest thing I've found to a revealed-preference survey of people who actually cross oceans, and it doesn't say what the brochures say.
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The $575,000 Catana 47 with a $200,000 receipt and no new sails
The upgrade list on this one is honest work — it's the two words missing from it that set my offer.
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The 172-day number changed how I'm watching listings
The aggregate says 7.2% off ask; my own worksheet says the number splits into two pools, and the median hides both.
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The leg I keep rehearsing: Galápagos to Nuku Hiva
I keep sailing the same 2,965 miles from a desk in Bend, and the weather files keep giving me the same four-line answer.