The Do-it-Yourself Sail Track Cleaner
Racers demand lightning-fast hoists. Cruisers tire of the effort required to grind a heavy main up a sticky track. Roller furler foils that have...
Getting a Grip on Sailboat Ergonomics
With more than four decades in the business of designing and building boats, Catalina Yachts chief engineer and designer Gerry Douglas has had a...
What’s the Probability? Weather Rock Stars Convene.
A changing climate brings changes in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events in Atlantic and Pacific basin, another reason to hone your...
Helping Your Boat Battery Survive Winter Storage
Few things are more disappointing than coming back to your boat in the spring and discovering that one or more of your boats batteries...
End boom vs. mid-boom sheeting
For centuries, a battle between simplicity and sail-trimming efficiency has been waged. Racers love double-ended sheeting that leads to the outboard end of the...
Tether Clip Update
VideosSince this main body of this report was first published in December 2018, Practical Sailor tester Drew Frye has been hard at work examining...
Check Your Safety Tethers
6. The tether snap-hook, at the boat-end of the tether, should be attached to a jackline or padeye designated for that purpose. Our preliminary...
PFD-Harness Good Sense
In the wake of the recent fatal accident in the Clipper Around the World Race, we look again at the hard won guidance on...
Marine Antifreeze Problems: When Pink Antifreeze Freezes
There's nothing like buying several $3 bottles of marine antifreeze to protect your $30,000 boat, then coming home to discover the unused bottles frozen...
Loose Ships Sink Sailboats
Two different harbors suffered almost the same fate as Hurricane Irma raked South Florida with hurricane force winds. In both places, tens of thousands...
How to Have Happy Boat Kids from Marisa Evans on Women...
Women who sail is a great topic and raising kids on a sailboat can be a lot of fun too. From life jackets to...
Latest Sailboat Review
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...