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Episode 2: One Simple Question: Exploring Our World One Question at a Time

Updated April 12, 2013: Hangout available on youtube. Scroll down for resource links discussed in the hangout. Join Teresa for the second installment of: One Simple Question: Exploring Our World One Question at a Time Where:  Live Google+ Hangout When: April 11 2013 • 6pm EDT Since Ben and Teresa set sail 2 years ago

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Behind The Scenes Video: Fly On The Wall Editing: Looking For Clips

While we push hard to get a rough cut finished by April 15th, we took a few minutes to shoot this quick Behind The Scenes look at some of the editing process. A big part of the process has been logging and organizing the 5,000+ clips. Yet despite our best efforts to log with keywords

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Lessons Of An Evening Landfall

From Blue Water Sailing • February 2013 by Ben Eriksen For weeks we slowly trudged our way south through the muddy and dismal swamps of the ICW. The engine hours topped the 1000 mark and the associated fuel costs toppled the budget. The thought of open ocean and a short offshore run made Elizabeth, my

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Win a Prize and Jump Start Your Sailing Plans!

This Contest Is Now Over But you can still sign up for the email list, and we will be running a new (but different)  contest soon. This is an opportunity to jump start your sailing life! You will automatically be entered in the drawing on February 15th, when you sign up for our bi-monthly e-newsletter

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Watch Keeping & Offshore Passages [Video]

New video featuring two of our interviewees in One Simple Question. Why sleep can be the most important thing on an offshore passage. George Day, and John Kretschmer discuss the importance of off-watch time. Teresa and Ben share their candid feelings about watch standing during an early offshore passage en route to find an iceberg

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Introduction to Life Aboard [Video]

This video was originally released as a Behind The Scenes exclusive for our supporters and educational outreach program. We’ve taken the original and edited it a little bit (with our new found but minimal skills). What’s it like to live aboard  a small boat and sail offshore in search of icebergs? How do you fit