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1 week ago | 
sailmagazine.com | Wendy Mitman Clarke
In March, the Cruising Club of America honored Carter Bacon of Cambridge, Massachusetts, with its Rod Stephens Seamanship Trophy for his “his meritorious handling of the sinking of his classic 50-foot K. Aage Nielsen sloop Solution during the return sail after the 2024 Newport Bermuda Race.
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1 week ago | 
sailmagazine.com | Wendy Mitman Clarke
If you believe that our earliest memories can imprint upon us our future—like baby birds who will identify themselves with the first living creature or object they see—then Jesse Terry’s 39-foot ketch Abigail, designed by John Alden, was a foregone conclusion long before she came into his life. Growing up in Essex, Connecticut, his first memories were of watching his parents and their friends restore a 48-foot wooden yawl in the family’s backyard over the course of a decade.
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3 weeks ago | 
sailmagazine.com | Wendy Mitman Clarke
“Are you ready.”The question came without a question mark at the end, the warm but no-nonsense eyes of Jonathan Kabak looking straight into mine. “I think so?” I answered, hearing the hesitation in my answer. I was standing beside the deep end of a U.S. Naval Academy swimming pool, kitted up in new foulies, new seaboots, and a lifejacket I’d never used.
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4 weeks ago | 
sailmagazine.com | Wendy Mitman Clarke
I have never been very good at standing night watch alone. For many years, when we were cruising fulltime, I tried to enjoy it the way so many other people told me they did. The stars. The peacefulness. The solitude. The oneness with the sea. Whatever.
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1 month ago | 
sailingscuttlebutt.com | Wendy Mitman Clarke
Published on February 24th, 2025by Wendy Mitman Clarke, SAIL magazine Even if you know it's coming, 30 knots is a lot. And we-and presumably the whole fleet competing in last September's Naval Academy Sailing Squadron Fall Race to Cambridge-knew it was coming. It's safe to say, though, that most of the fleet hadn't been in racing mothballs for 25 years, as had we and our Peterson 34.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
sailingscuttlebutt.com | Wendy Mitman Clarke
Published on November 7th, 2024by Wendy Mitman Clarke, SAIL Editor-in-Chief This is the column where I hopelessly date myself, and it came to me in the weirdest place-the short passage just beyond the bar at The Black Pearl in Newport, Rhode Island. I was in town for the Newport Boat Show in September, making the annual trek for my favorite chowder, when memory slammed into me.
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Sep 1, 2024 | 
soundingsonline.com | Wendy Mitman Clarke
When he was a youngster, Thomas Dolby received a book by Beken of Cowes, and the oversized black-and-white images of the majestic America’s Cup yachts of the turn of the century enthralled him. Beneath the literal clouds of sail were sailors—“Those tiny little dots along the rail were actually men, it was just inconceivable. I mean, who were they?
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
soundingsonline.com | Wendy Mitman Clarke
The schooner Bowdoin, built for Arctic exploration in 1921 at Hodgdon Brothers Shipyard in East Boothbay, Maine, is headed for the Arctic for the first time since 2008, more than 100 years since her first such expedition. Owned by Maine Maritime Academy (MMA), she’s carrying six professional crew and 10 MMA students who plan to sail from Maine to Disko Bay, Greenland, and beyond 70° North.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
powerandmotoryacht.com | Wendy Mitman Clarke
Forecasters say that three climatological factors are combining to potentially spark an extremely active—and possibly extended—hurricane season in the Atlantic. Citing the confluence of three major climatological factors, forecasters from NOAA’s National Weather Service are predicting an extremely active Atlantic hurricane season with the highest number of named storms NOAA has ever issued for its May outlook.
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May 24, 2024 | 
soundingsonline.com | Wendy Mitman Clarke
Citing the confluence of three major climatological factors, forecasters from NOAA’s National Weather Service are predicting an extremely active Atlantic hurricane season with the highest number of named storms NOAA has ever issued for its May outlook. NOAA is forecasting 17 to 25 named storms, 8 to 13 of them expected to become hurricanes, including four to seven Category 3 storms or higher.
