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Wear the Kill Switch or Risk Being Killed
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Encouraging Paperwork Developments
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Great Vallejo Race Season Opener
Vallejo YC’s Martha Blanchfield reminds us that there are only 10 days until the 115th running of the annual Great Vallejo Race. Slated for April 26 and 27, the venerable GVR is, of course, the YRA season opener on the Bay, and its popularity has often ranked it as the largest inland regatta in the US…
New Constraints on Euro Cruising
Lest anyone think that Mexico’s recent self-destructive ‘auditing’ of foreign-owned boats was a unique governmental brain fart, consider the oppressive situation for foreign mariners wanting to cruise — and spread money — in ‘Schengen Area’ countries. What countries constitute the Schengen Area? It’s actually quite simple: Twenty-two of the twenty-eight European Union (EU) member states,…
The One-Design Transatlantic
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