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		<title>Web Links Now Available for All Buyer&#8217;s Guide Listings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve modified the Socalsail Buyer&#8217;s Guide so that listed companies can have free links to their web sites. My thinking is that this encourages companies to update their listings, and generally makes the site more useful for its users.
Companies whose listings include a link are listed in the &#8220;Enhanced Listings&#8221; section at the top of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socalsail.com/wp/2007/01/28/web-links-now-available-for-all-buyers-guide-listings/</link>
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		<title>Sailing-Themed Reality Show Looking for Participants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This arrived in the mailbag a while ago. I&#8217;m passing it along in case any of you all are interested:

From: 	  Talia Berman
Subject: 	Dreamboat
Date: 	July 20, 2006 2:18:10 PM PDT
To: 	  feedback@socalsail.com
County Line Productions is producing a show called &#8220;Dreamboat&#8221; for CMT. The
series is similar to pimp my ride or trick my truck [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socalsail.com/wp/2006/08/01/sailing-themed-reality-show-looking-for-participants/</link>
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		<title>movistar Abandoned, ABN Amro One Wins Portsmouth Leg</title>
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This morning the captain of Volvo Ocean Race entry movistar, after a night spent fighting severe leaking from the failure of one of the pivot points of the Spanish entry&#8217;s canting keel, chose to abandon ship. movistar was about 300 miles from the race&#8217;s finish line in Portsmouth, England, at the time. Lots of interesting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socalsail.com/wp/2006/05/21/movistar-abandoned-abn-amro-one-wins-portsmouth-leg/</link>
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		<title>The Irving Johnson To Be Re-commissioned Today</title>
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More than a year after the brig Irving Johnson went aground just south of the entrance to Channel Islands Harbor, the ship is set to be officially re-commissioned today at Berth 78 in Ports O&#8217; Call Village, San Pedro. The ceremony, which is open to the public, is scheduled to begin at 11:00 a.m.
A good [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socalsail.com/wp/2006/05/20/the-irving-johnson-to-be-re-commissioned-today/</link>
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		<title>The Death of Hans Horrevoets</title>
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In all my talk about the risks faced by crews in the Volvo Ocean Race, I always focused on the dangers of the Southern Ocean. But as we all know, any stretch of ocean can be deadly. Early Thursday morning, as the VOR fleet crossed the North Atlantic in the last long-distance leg of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socalsail.com/wp/2006/05/20/the-death-of-hans-horrevoets/</link>
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		<title>NOAA Wind Data Interrupted</title>
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I&#8217;m not sure why, but the NOAA weather buoy data that I display on SoCalSail&#8217;s Current wind observations page stopped updating at 3:00 a.m. local time today. It looks like it&#8217;s a problem at NOAA&#8217;s end; hopefully they&#8217;ll have it straightened out shortly.
Update: Which it looks like they did, since things are working again as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socalsail.com/wp/2006/05/14/noaa-wind-data-interrupted/</link>
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		<title>Bill Lapworth, R.I.P.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bill Lapworth, one of the best-known Southern California sailboat designers, has died. A private ceremony to scatter his ashes at sea was held yesterday, according to an item I read in Sailing Scuttlebutt this morning: Eight Bells.

William &#8220;Bill&#8221; Lapworth &#8212; perhaps the foremost West Coast Naval Architect in the post World War II period &#8212; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socalsail.com/wp/2006/04/08/bill-lapworth-rip/</link>
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		<title>New Look for SoCalSail</title>
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Thanks to my good friend Matthew Hine, SoCalSail has a new logo and site design. Please let me know if you notice any problems, or if you come across the old design lingering anywhere on the site.
Thanks, Matt!
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		<link>http://www.socalsail.com/wp/2006/04/08/new-look-for-socalsail/</link>
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		<title>ABN AMRO One Continues to Dominate</title>
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ABN AMRO One continues to outclass the competition in the Volvo Ocean Race, most recently taking first in the leg from Wellington to Rio de Janeiro (finish pictured at right), and then winning the Rio in-port race. The latter win was especially impressive in that the race took place in light winds, which up until [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socalsail.com/wp/2006/03/26/abn-amro-one-continues-to-dominate/</link>
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		<title>Eastern Santa Cruz Island Re-Opened by Park Service</title>
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I learned today from an article in the Los Angeles Times that the National Park Service is once again allowing landings and overnight camping on Santa Cruz: Camping ban on Santa Cruz Island is lifted.
According to the Times:

The National Park Service has lifted a temporary ban on camping on Santa Cruz Island, imposed in November [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socalsail.com/wp/2006/03/21/eastern-santa-cruz-re-opened-by-park-service/</link>
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