Lessons Learned: Onboard Thermal Cooking
There is a learning curve when using retained-heat cooking. Here are a few of the lessons we learned during testing.If less than 15 minutes...
Getting a Grip on Velcro
We think of all stick-and-rip, hook-and-loop fasteners as Velcro-just as we ask for Kleenex after a sneeze-and most tend to have uniformly low performance...
Outland Hatch Covers Impress
Ultra-violet light is a relentless villain that destroys vinyl, gelcoat, paint, and lines, bit by bit. The best we can do is delay the...
Search for Safe Boarding Boost
Anyone thats ever hopped on a Jacobs ladder at a fall festival can relate to the feeling of the rope-attached steps swaying wildly from...
Do-It-Yourself: Seeing Neon Blue
There are simply too many white lights in and around a municipal anchorage. A required white anchor light must have 360-degree visibility. But a...
Do-It-Yourself: Salted Surfaces
While new finishes-paint, epoxy, or varnish-may be beautiful to look at, they are also as slick as can be when a little seawater hits...
A Customized Way to Calculate Heating Needs
Although rules of thumb for heating requirements exist, every boat is different. A simple way to measure the heating requirements of a boat is...
Fortune Favors the Cold and Wet
Two stories this month-installing an LPG fireplace and sealing portlights and hatches-had me pondering the challenges of a winter afloat. But what literally raised...
Reading the Weather
The air surrounding us on the surface of the earth weighs about 1.2 kilos per cubic meter, and when we stack up these invisible...
Barometers Usefulness Varies by Latitude
Many electronic barometer/barographs feature an auto alarm that warns of pending bad weather, and we found them to be accurate enough to heed. But...
$650,000 Yacht Tour : Hanse 460 – This Luxury Cruising Sailboat...
In the $500,000+ cruising sailboat market, the competition for world traveling sailboats is full of exceptional sailing yachts like the Catalina 445, the Amel...
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