Aegean SPOT Distress Signal Details Emerge
If you recently bought a SPOT Connect for its distress calling capability, or are looking at similar satellite messaging devices such as the SPOT...
All Sailboats Great and Small
Each time I put together the lineup for an issue of Practical Sailor, I try to envision a sailing club with our subscribers...
Incommunicado in the Satellite Age
Simultaneous to these emails, Frank was cheerfully updating breadcrumb tracks uploaded from his Briatech Cerberus, anothersatellite-based messenger/tracker designed to antagonize the office-bound. By...
Volvo Race Village Flops in Miami
The venue might have been half-pleasant had the hosts or organizers gone to the trouble of trucking in some shade, a few more...
San Fran ‘Stand-down’ = Government Meddling?
The Coast Guards call to stand-down and suspend any offshore racing outside San Francisco Bay in the wake of last months tragedy...
Around the Americas in a 27-foot Sailboat
I recently read an essay that compared sailing to tennis, two sports that I enjoy, but are as different as they come. The...
Chapter 11 Filing “A Good Thing” for Hunter
And all the while, Hunter has been trying to recover ground lost to market leader Beneteau, whose dominance in the charterboat market...
FCC Approves New AIS Distress Device
A little over a week after one of this countrys most tragic man-overboard incidents in recent U.S. sailboat-racing history, we got news that...
Tragedy Strikes Farallones Race
Summer has yet to begin, and yet our hopes and prayers for a safe 2012 sailing season in North America have been shattered. Five...
Beware of Fake Gear “Reviews”
Who can you trust? Youd think that the Internet explosion and the current boom in blogging and social media would make life easier for...
The UNIQUE Maxus 26 Lifting Keel Trailer Sailor
What is the best trailerable sailboat? One big feature is the mast stepping system. Today we look at trailer sailors like the Catalina 275,...
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Beneteau 40.7 Used Boat Review
Beneteau began building boats in France in 1884 when Beneteau opened shop for the purpose of constructing trawlers at Croix-de-Vie. Eighty years later, under...