Dispatches Jan. 8
Jan. 8
Tom Neale’s ICW Log: Part II
Join Soundings technical editor Tom Neale and his wife, Mel, as they take their Gulfstar 53 motorsailer, Chez Nous, down the Intracoastal Waterway.
Sailing alone, but never lonely
He was a superb navigator and pioneering small-boat ocean sailor, a modest gentleman from another time, one of those solidly forged members of the Greatest Generation whose numbers, sadly, dwindle with each day.
Top Coast Guard videos
The Coast Guard's top 11 videos from 2009 include footage of pirates, fires on board, a medevac from a Navy submarine.
Meet the luckiest sailor alive
Dennis Clements, battling gale-force winds and 30-foot seas for four days, was tossed from his Cal 39, Gloria A Dios, about 250 miles east of Cape Hatteras, N.C.
An EPIRB and some Lady Luck
Dennis Clements had a model year 2000 ACR Satellite2 406 MHz EPIRB, a manually activated beacon, according to ACR marketing manager Chris Wahler, who spoke to the sailor after his rescue. He had the EPIRB mounted in its bracket on a bulkhead inside the cabin near the companionway, says Wahler.
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