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The Sailing Gently channel holds roughly 90 videos covering offshore passages, pilotage, gear, and cruising destinations.Watch An Atlantic Crossing guide has drawn 362,000 views; a French Canal route to the Mediterranean series pairs with a companion book that has sold about 6,000 copies; a separate Mediterranean route book has sold nearly 4,000 copies with around 50,000 views.0:10 A 50-minute account of a piracy boarding by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden and a helicopter rescue at Lady Musgrave cover emergency scenarios.0:35 Pilotage videos guide sailors into French Channel ports from Cherbourg to Boulogne-sur-Mer, including Le Havre, Saint-Vast, Grandcamp-Maisy, and Dieppe, plus UK marinas from Eastbourne to Dartmouth and Alderney.0:58 Dedicated videos cover wind vanes and autopilots.1:26 Gently is now based in the Caribbean; videos address shipping a boat there by freighter, the costs involved, and comparisons of Caribbean islands and marina fees.1:31

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