Fuel Storage Tips for Sailors
Practical Sailor contributor, Chesapeake Bay sailing blogger, and chemistry guru Drew Frye is still in the lab with his beakers, test tubes, and mason...
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...
The AMAZING 50 Footer You’ve Never Heard Of – Pegasus 50...
A 50 footer packed with innovation for shorthanded cruising, the Pegasus 50 has features like carbon fiber rig, bulkheads, and bimini. When compared to...
Latest Sailboat Review
Pacific Seacraft 34 and 37
Pacific Seacraft was founded in 1976 by Henry Morschladt and Mike Howarth, who first produced 25-foot daysailers. Like many boatbuilders, the company suffered during...