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VirtualSailboatShow: Dufour 525 grand 'Large Sloop - Part 2

sailing@thesailingchannel.com (TheSailingChannel.Com) — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 15:00:27 -0500

Named Best Full-Size Cruiser for 2009 by Cruising World Magazine, the Dufour 525 grand 'Large is a sleek, classy vessel that can transport it's crew in safety and comfort anywhere its skipper chooses to sail. In part 2, we examine the features that separate the Dufour 525 from other large cruising sailboats. These include the German Mainsheet system; Dual Wheel steering; use of fine interior woods; plentiful hatches and port lights; multiple cabin layouts; spaces for optional appliances and machinery; and customizable equipment packages. See the full Dufour 525 video at www.dufour-yachts.com in HD.

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VirtualSailboatShow: Dufour 525 grand 'Large Sloop - Part 1

sailing@thesailingchannel.com (TheSailingChannel.Com) — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:15:45 -0500

TheSailingChannel brings you a 2-part in-depth look at the Dufour 525 grand 'Large Sloop, the flagship of the Dufour fleet. Named Best Full-Size Cruiser for 2009 by Cruising World Magazine, the 525 combines sleek, elegant European styling by French and Italian designers with stiff, strong construction making her a safe and fast blue water cruiser. In part 1, we get an overview of the boat, learn about her design and engineering, check out her sailing characteristics, and take a look at some unique features. View the entire video at www.dufour-yatchts.com in HD.

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Exploring Freighter Wreck from Cruising with Bettie

sailing@thesailingchannel.com (TheSailingChannel.Com) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:44:41 -0500

Cruising with Bettie: L.A. to the Bahamas is a 51-minute cruising documentary available at www.thesailingchannel.tv/cwb. This sequence is from the San Blas islands segment.

The San Blas Islands offers cruisers a remote destination to explore just off Panama's Caribbean coast. The archipelago consists of 378 islands. Of these, only fifty are inhabited by a friendly and fiercely independent people, the Kuna Indians. While exploring the San Blas, "Bettie's" skipper, Bob Steadman, filmed his friend exploring a coastal freighter wrecked on a reef.

Cruising with Bettie is available on DVD for $24.95 (includes U.S. shipping) and $29.95 (includes international shipping).

This is a fast-paced documentary, with gorgeous photography, that will give you a first hand look at the cruising lifestyle. Over 10,000 miles passed under Bettie’s keel since Bob and Kaye left Los Angeles in 2004. They sailed down the west coast to Panama, through the Canal, east to Cartagena, Columbia then north to Honduras and east across the Caribbean to the Bahamas. The DVD is divided into 29 segments. You can watch the video in its entirety or use the menu to jump between locations.

Cruising with Bettie is also available for purchase as a High Quality Windows Media or QuickTime Video Download for just $9.99. Click, pay with Paypal or your Credit Card, download and watch.

The complete 51-minute video will be saved to your PC or MAC where you can enjoy unlimited full screen plays. The video files are NOT copy-protected. We ask you to honor the work of our Sailor/Producers by purchasing your own copy and asking your friends to do the same.

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VirtualSailboatShow: Edson Vision Series Pedestal & Access Wheel

sailing@thesailingchannel.com (TheSailingChannel.Com) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:00:53 -0400

TheSailingChannel interviews Will Keene, President of Edson Corporation about the Vision Series Pedestal and Access Wheel. The Vision Series is an update for your aging pedestal system. It gives the helmsman easy access to a single-lever engine control and a large format chart plotter. It makes it simpler to install other sailing instruments and it places the compass up high where the helmsman can take a bearing. Add Edson's new contoured Access Wheel and you get great instrument visibility, the spokes out of the way of the engine control lever, and you can finally move fore and aft without having to climb over the cockpit seats.

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VirtualSailboatShow: Dufour Yachts - Improving the Sailing Experience

sailing@thesailingchannel.com (TheSailingChannel.Com) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 13:53:07 -0400

TheSailingChannel interviews Paul Wuyts, VP of Marketing & Sales for Dufour Yachts. Paul describes how Dufour continues to improve its yachts making them easier, safer, and more enjoyable to sail through improved handling, sleeker hull designs, spacious and well appointed interiors, reliable auxiliary engines, and reduced maintenance.
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Pardey Cruising Tip: Bow Roller

sailing@thesailingchannel.com (TheSailingChannel.Com) — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:04:27 -0400

TheSailingChannel presents Cruising Tips by Lin and Larry Pardey from their DVD, Get Ready to Cruise, Off-Shore Sailing, Pt. 1.

The bow roller is a critical part of any cruising boat's anchoring system. In this tip, Larry describes the proper way to install a bow roller so it can handle the massive sideway strain your anchor rhode can generate. To see more Cruising Tips from Lin and Larry Pardey, visit www.TheSailingChannel.TV/pardey where you can purchase the complete line of Lin and Larry Pardey books and videos.

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Also available:

Get Ready to Cross Oceans, Off-Shore Sailing, Pt.2

Get Ready to...DVD Set (Pt. 1 and Pt. 2)

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Cartagena from Cruising with Bettie

sailing@thesailingchannel.com (TheSailingChannel.Com) — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:46:03 -0500

Cruising with Bettie: L.A. to the Bahamas, is a 51-minute cruising documentary available at www.thesailingchannel.tv/cwb.

Cartagena, Columbia is a cruising destination in the western caribbean. Join cruisers Bob and Kaye as they visit the old walled city for a look at Cartagena's colonial past, find great buys on precious stones, and discover other exotic fare. Cartagena is a segment from our 51-minute DVD,

Cruising with Bettie is available on DVD for $24.95 (includes U.S. shipping) and $29.95 (includes international shipping).

This is a fast-paced documentary, with gorgeous photography, that will give you a first hand look at the cruising lifestyle. Over 10,000 miles passed under Bettie’s keel since Bob and Kaye left Los Angeles in 2004. They sailed down the west coast to Panama, through the Canal, east to Cartagena, Columbia then north to Honduras and east across the Caribbean to the Bahamas. The DVD is divided into 29 segments. You can watch the video in its entirety or use the menu to jump between locations.

Cruising with Bettie is also available for purchase as a High Quality Windows Media or QuickTime Video Download for just $9.99. Click, pay with Paypal or your Credit Card, download and watch.

The complete 51-minute video will be saved to your PC or MAC where you can enjoy unlimited full screen plays. The video files are NOT copy-protected. We ask you to honor the work of our Sailor/Producers by purchasing your own copy and asking your friends to do the same.

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Around Santa Cruz Island: Preview

sailing@thesailingchannel.com (TheSailingChannel.Com) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:38:59 -0400

TheSailingChannel presents a video preview of the DVD Cruising Guide: Around Santa Cruz Island. This 100-minute information-packed DVD is available at http://www.thesailingchannel.tv/stc.

Around Santa Cruz Island Cruising Guide DVD
(100-minutes)
$29.95

This is a complete interactive video cruising guide for your voyage to southern California's Santa Cruz Island. The DVD includes 70-minutes of cruising footage supplemented by another 30-minutes of interviews with island experts.

THE SAIL: Sail along with Captain Marc Hersh and his crew as they cross the Santa Barbara Channel aboard Songline, a beautiful J42 fitted out with all the cruising amenities. Then take a seat in the cockpit as the crew circumnavigates the Island, checking out some 15 pristine anchorages and taking day-hikes ashore.

THE ISLAND: Positioned in the middle of the Channel Islands National Park 25 miles off the Santa Barbara coast, Santa Cruz Island offers its visitors 96 square miles of natural wonder. The largest of the eight Channel Islands, Santa Cruz is often referred to as "the Galapagos of North America." It's home to twelve species found no where else on earth and more than a thousand species of other plants and animals.

SPECIAL FEATURES: The DVD contains several extras including an interview with Brian Fagan, author of Cruising Guide to Central and Southern California; briefings by National Park Service and Nature Conservancy spokespersons, and a special section on passage making from various southern California ports.

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Sen. Kennedy Warms Up for the Figawi

sailing@thesailingchannel.com (TheSailingChannel.Com) — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:15:15 -0400

(NECN: Hyannisport, Mass.) - It was a day at the shore designed to send a message. Ted Kennedy has no plans to slow down. Senator Kennedy and his wife, Vicki, went sailing Wednesday afternoon, just one day after it was announced that he has a brain tumor. On a picture perfect day for a sail, Kennedy took his Portugese water dogs for a swim, and then climbed aboard for a sail aboard his boat 'Mya'.

After the sail, Kennedy summed up his health with a one word answer. "Good." He's told family members he's planning to race this weekend in the Figawi, an annual regatta between Hyannis and Nantucket.

TheSailingChannel.TV thanks New England Cable Network (NECN.com) for sharing this story.

Cruising has NO LIMITS: Irish Interlude

sailing@thesailingchannel.com (TheSailingChannel.Com) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:38:19 -0400

TheSailingChannel presents "Irish Interlude," a sneak-peek from Lin and Larry Pardey's newest 74-minute documentary, Cruising has NO LIMITS. Available at http://www.thesailingchannel.tv/pardey/chnl

Cruising has NO LIMITS DVD (74-minutes)
$22.95.

Starting at their New Zealand home base, the Pardeys recount some of their most memorable adventures during more than 30 years of cruising. They begin by taking you across the Indian Ocean on board their 29-foot, 9-inch engineless cutter, Taleisin: destination, southern Africa. There, you follow Lin and Larry as they plan and execute a seven month “Champagne Safari on a Beer Budget”. After outfitting a 4X4, you travel into the remote Kalahari, experience life at a sculptors’ commune in northern Zimbabwe, and animal-watch at waterholes far from game reserves. Next you cross the south Atlantic to Brazil's off-shore islands where Lin and Larry experience a unique, eight-month-long encounter with nine Brazilian families who dream of their own blue water adventures. Finally, you sail north to Ireland’s music-filled shores and a summer of history, classic sailing, and friendship.

Along the way, you’ll learn some of the truisms that could help you get out adventuring sooner and more enjoyably—whether on the water or on land. You’ll also come to know more about this longtime cruising couple who have been dubbed “the enablers” because of their enthusiasm and willingness to share their secrets for exploring the far corners of the world on a limited budget.

“After voyaging tens of thousands of engineless miles under sail, penning more useful marine books than Hiscock and Moitessier combined, and receiving more awards for their pursuits than Tom Hanks has for his, Lin and Larry Pardey are entitled to their well-earned nautical opinions.”
--HERB McCORMACK, EDITOR-AT-LARGE, CRUISING WORLD

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Cruising with Bettie Trailer: L.A. to the Bahamas

sailing@thesailingchannel.com (TheSailingChannel.Com) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:30:52 -0400

TheSailingChannel presents a slice of the cruising lifestyle. Have you ever dreamt of "sailing off into the sunset?" Then join Bob and Kaye aboard their 36 foot sloop, "Bettie" as they cruise from Los Angeles to the Bahamas via the Panama Canal on the first leg of their sailing adventure. Cruising with Bettie is a 51-minute sailing/travel documentary available at www.thesailingchannel.tv/cwb.

"Bettie" is based on a Cascade 36 hull. It was custom molded for Bob by Yacht Constructors in Portland Oregon back in 1978. Four years and lots and lots of man hours later Bob splashed her. "Bettie" has a raised freeboard that allows for a flush deck design.

This is a fast-paced video, with gorgeous photography, that will give you a first hand look at the cruising lifestyle. Over 10,000 miles have passed under Bettie’s keel since Bob and Kaye left Los Angeles in 2004. They sailed down the west coast to Panama, through the Canal, east to Cartagena, Columbia then north to Honduras and east across the Caribbean to the Bahamas. That's the focus of this video.

Next, Bob and Kaye cruised north along the eastern U.S. seaboard to Boston. The geese were flying south by October beckoning them back to warmer climes, so they headed south to Guatemala and Honduras. After refitting and some time back in L.A., Bob and Kaye sailed back across the Caribbean to the Florida Keys. TheSailingChannel is partnering with Bob and Kaye to produce a continuing series of cruising documentaries as we follow "Bettie" to the far corners of the world. For more information go to www.thesailingchannel.tv/cwb

Bob Steadman is a highly acclaimed Hollywood cinematographer. He recently served as technical consultant to the Director of Photography on the feature, Body of Lies directed by Ridley Scott and starring Leonardo de Caprio and Russell Crowe. Read all about it in Bob's Blog and check out Bob Steadman's screen credits on the Internet Movie Database.

Cruising with Bettie is available on DVD for $24.95 (includes U.S. shipping) and $29.95 (includes international shipping).

Cruising with Bettie is also available for purchase as a High Quality Windows Media or QuickTime Video Download for just $9.99. Click, pay with Paypal or your Credit Card, download and watch.

The complete 51-minute video will be saved to your PC or MAC where you can enjoy unlimited full screen plays. The video files are NOT copy-protected. We ask you to honor the work of our Sailor/Producers by purchasing your own copy and asking your friends to do the same.

Be sure to subscribe via iTunes to receive free video podcast for cruising sailors from TheSailingChannel.tv.

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