More Great Tips for Stopping Boat Stink
It's not often I get to see photos of an intact, but excruciatingly stinky holding tank get wedged and jimmied through cutouts in the...
The Pros and Cons of Leaving Your Mast Up for Winter
You may have noticed that each winter that there seem to be fewer masts in the rack and more still standing upright in boats...
The Ego Trap of Riding the Storm Out
More often than not, during conversations with the experienced sailors who contribute to Practical Sailor, the phrase “Do as I say, not as I...
Buyers Beware of Post-Storm Bargains
If you are in the market for a used boat and live in a place where winter storage is the norm, autumn is one...
The Great Dinghy Debate
Dinghies are the Rodney Dangerfields of cruising. They get no respect, or at least not as much as they deserve. The little boat that...
Choosing a Sailmaker
Historically, fall has been the best time to get a good price on new sails, so now is a good time to start evaluating...
Plug that Chain-pipe
I was always amazed at how much water could seep through the chain-pipe and into Toscas anchor locker when a sea was up or...
Overheating in Docklines and Rodes
For those of us with boats in the hurricane belt, we should already have a storm refuge (or haulout yard) selected and a plan...
Shaping the Cruising Spinnaker
No sailor likes to switch on the motor if they don't have to, but the northern hemisphere summer brings fickle light winds to some...
Check Chafe Before Switching to Fiber Lifelines
New single-braid, high modulus polyethylene (HMPE) lines, such as Amsteel Blue from Samson Ropes, WR2 (wire rope replacement) from New England Ropes, and Vectrus...
$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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MacGregor 26M Used Boat Review
MacGregor 26 has been a staple in the trailerable sailboat market for decades, and company literature claimed more than 7,000 of the original model...