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Is This Your Cleat?
Walking down any dock and you will soon decide that tying a cleat is a dying skill. Many docks have up to 40% and sometimes more of the cleats tied strangely, this includes the docks of yacht clubs that bear … Continue reading
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Tagged boating knots, boating safety, boating skills, How to Tie a Cleat, knots
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Great Windstorms of the Pacific Northwest with Cliff Mass
Video of the May 4, 2010 presentation of The Great Windstorms of the Pacific Northwest by Cliff Mass gave at the Science Café of the Pacific Science Center in Seattle. Cliff Mass Professor of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of … Continue reading
Washington State Boaters Licensing
A common misconception is that Washington State requires recreational boaters to have a license. This is not accurate, what is required is that boaters have successfully taken an approved Boaters Education Class and gotten a Washington State Boaters Education Card. … Continue reading
Puget Sound Ferry, Tanker and Navy Ships Security Zones
Puget Sound has a large amount of vessel traffic and has very specific safety zones around whales and many types of ships. All mariners need to understand and observe the safety zones. Washington State Ferries and other Passenger Carrying Vessels: … Continue reading
Anchor Types and Tips
What size and type of anchor do you need? To fully answer the what size and type would require a book and even then not everyone would agree on the conclusions. What size and type of an anchor is a … Continue reading