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This week, Bob is joined by Boat US vice president Heather Lougheed. Admiral Jerry Achenbach is also in the studio, talking about much needed maritime industry training programs.
Do you have what it takes to join the cruising community? Would you quickly become tired of living on a boat? Would you miss your home comforts?
Commander John Stone of the USCG Cutter Machinaw explains his mission to deliver 1,000 Christmas trees to hard-up families in Chicago.
For more than ten years, Bruce and Tiffany Halabisky have explored the world aboard their 1952 John Atkin-designed sailboat, Vixen. Along the way they’ve crossed the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, they’ve circumnavigated the globe, visited more than thirty countries and welcomed two children into their lives. Daughters Soli-Anna and Seffa-Jane were born in New Zealand and Brazil.
“If you can read, you can do anything.” That was the lesson drummed into Carolyn Shearlock when she was a child and, boy-oh-boy, did she take it to heart!
How to protect your outboard. Rich Carroll from Boat US Marine Insurance has advice for boat owners following a recent increase in thefts. There’s great news from the Fall Shoreline Clean-up Team - ten thousand pounds of trash was removed at the end of the summer season. Also this week, news from the Catastrophe Field Teamworking hard in the Florida Keys following Hurricane Irma.
Author Michael John explores the London aspect of Joseph Conrad’s celebrated novella Heart of Darkness. He examines Conrad’s relationships with the people he met there and also with the River Thames itself.
A quick, comprehensive and invaluable guide to the essential spares you’ll need to carry if you’re planning to spend a good deal of time on board your boat.
Waterfront news and the new executive director of the Lake of the Ozarks Shootout, plus Captain Dave Truitt of the Chicago Marine Heritage Society shares the story of US Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw – Chicago’s Christmas tree ship.
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