PS Advisor: July 2001
Lexan vs. PlexiIm planning to replace my wooden companionway boards with translucent plastic. Is there a difference between Lexan and plexiglass? Can both be...
Personal Rescue Lights: Less Than Brilliant
If theres a lesson to be learned about personal rescue lights -the kind you have strapped or pinned to your PFD for when...
Sandpaper: Carborundum’s Premier Red Shines For The Price
Dillinger, the Depression era’s Public Enemy #1 destroyed his fingertips with acid... but was led to slaughter in a Chicago alley in 1934...
Sandpaper: Carborundums Premier Red Shines For The Price
Dillinger, the Depression era’s Public Enemy #1 destroyed his fingertips with acid... but was led to slaughter in a Chicago alley in 1934...
Varnish Exposure Test
In recent years we have forsaken the testing of traditional varnishes for what might generically be called “teak treatments”—mostly oils, urethanes like Honey Teak,...
Our 10th Annual Bottom Paint Test
Practical Sailor has been testing bottom paints for 10 years now, though it sometimes seems like forever. It’s been a lot of work, but...
Tommy Tape is Tops
It’s called elastomeric self-bonding or self-amalgamating tape. To check the impression that all of these tapes were getting harder and less elastic, fresh tape was...
Spare Parts 3/01
Micrologic RepairReader Carl Love wrote to say, You might want to add Bay Country Electronics to your list at 4 Dock St., Annapolis, Maryland,...
Offshore Log: In Search of the Magic Finish
Ever since we arrived in the tropics more than three years ago, maintaining Calypso’s vast quantities of varnished teak has been an exercise in...
Wiz Oil Filter Cutter
All too often boat owners keep tabs on the condition of their engines by simply running them: If they start and run smoothly...
Abandon Ship! Coast Guard Rescue Beneteau 523 in the Atlantic
What would cause the captain and crew to abandon ship in the Atlantic ocean? There was no sailboat disaster here, but a coast guard...
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