Picking up a mooring ball

This month we’re putting down the tools to learn an essential boating skill.

Picking up a mooring ball can be a simple, unremarkable affair that goes unnoticed by fellow cruisers, or it can be a catastrophe of biblical proportions regaled in the yacht club bar for years to come. In efforts to ensure your adventure falls under the first category, here’s some advice to make sure your name, the words “mooring ball,” and the phrase, “I’ve never seen anything like it before or since,” are never used in the same sentence. ...

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