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    Caswell’s Casual Guide to Cruising Etiquette

    Mar 19, 2019 3 minutes
    —Chris Caswell

    In a calm anchorage at dusk, the peace is broken by a cellphone ringing in the cockpit of one of the boats. It rings, stops, then rings again because the caller can’t believe everyone doesn’t have their phone with them constantly. After a half hour of this nonsense, a dinghy departs a nearby yacht and a shadowy figure boards the offender. Quiet is restored.

    Yachting etiquette was once handed down from experienced skippers to first-timers

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