If you need to leave your boat in an emergency, you’ll want to have everything you need close at hand. Here’s how to make your own ditch bag. [More] How to Make Your Ditch Bag

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If you need to leave your boat in an emergency, you’ll want to have everything you need close at hand. Here’s how to make your own ditch bag. [More] How to Make Your Ditch Bag
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A boat can sink in minutes before you’re even aware water is coming in. Learn how to pick a bilge alarm that could save your boat. [More] Cheap Boat Insurance – A Bilge Alarm
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Read one cruiser’s harrowing story of abandoning their boat in a Gulf of Mexico Storm. What did they do right? And what do they wish they had done? [More] Abandoning Our Boat In Mexican Waters
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Learn where to put your ditch bag on your boat so that you’ll be able to put it into the life raft if you ever need it. Important info! [More] Where to Put Your Ditch Bag
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Where and how to store your boat’s ditch bag so that you can grab it instantly, plus five tips so it’s ready for an emergency and will serve you well. [More] Where to Store the Ditch Bag
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What to know in choosing your emergency contact for your EPIRB, float plan and medical emergency, including what information to give each one. [More] Choosing Your Emergency Contact
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How to provide the information needed for someone else to rescue your boat in an emergency. It costs less than $5 and only takes a couple hours to put together, but could save your boat some day. [More] Emergency Info
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Seconds count in an emergency. Are you really ready? Can you lay your hands on everything IMMEDIATELY? [More] Where Are the Wood Plugs?
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Every potential blue water voyager, every sailor who wants to go beyond the sight of land is faced with the need to evaluate which, use it only in emergency, gear they should carry. [More] Can You Buy Safety?
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The toilet is clogged or the boat needs a pumpout . . . but you need to go. What do you do? [More] Emergency Toilet: The Wag Bag
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