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Doing the Loop: the Wades Weigh In

1. Planning is everything. Read, study and get information at least a year ahead because it's hard to find enough time to budget and plan anchorages, lock transits, ports, sightseeing, etc., once you're cruising. We had 175 pounds of guidebooks and charts aboard.

Shared adventures

Voyaging couple helps cruisers gain the knowledge and confidence to expand their horizons

Phyllis Nickel admires the noon light from a hill in Greenland. John Harries calls the adventuring that he and Phyllis Nickel do "home waters cruising" - or more accurately "home waters voyaging" - because home waters suggests a depth of local knowledge. And voyaging implies a purposefulness.

Salty Paws

The judges, Finley, Charlie and Skipper, deliberate.

We asked for dogs, and we got dogs. Hundreds of them. About 200 of you responded to our Salty Paws Photo Contest, e-mailing us more than 400 images of your favorite four-legged shipmates.

Large, small, cute and well ... interesting-looking. Who doesn't love a good dog, a handsome boat and a nice day on the water? And if they aren't all water dogs in the traditional sense, it's clear that they all are boat dogs, which at the end of the day is all that really matters.

Going once, going twice ...

Wooden-boat aficionado F. Todd Warner auctioned off most of his collection of classics this fall, though he might end up restoring some of them for their new owners.

Sugar Lady, a 1932 27-foot triple-cockpit Chris-Craft, fetched $305,000. Where others see only cracked varnish, dry rot and headaches, F. Todd Warner sees neglected wooden boats that can be restored to their former glory as showcases for elegant styling, fast hulls and glistening brightwork.

Panama Canal: Pacific passage

Ho'Okele enters the Gatun Locks, as seen from the deck of Continental Drifter II. Transiting the Panama Canal was a happy event, probably because we had been led to believe it would be an ordeal and it wasn't. We were delivering a 37-foot trawler from Florida to Baja, Mexico, and the authors of our passage guide had described "locking through" as downright dangerous.

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