The Bottom Paint Report
Indicative of the tangled web sailors enter when trying to select an anti-fouling paint, this year’s Practical Sailor anti-fouling paint test featured a huge...
The Brush Keeper
Poke your head up the hatch after waking up on board on a crystal clear morning in Port Townsend, WA's Point Hudson marina and...
White Paint Match-up
One of the long-standing complaints about bottom paint—besides its cost and laborious, monotonous application on an annual basis—is the way it looks. Some sailors...
Bottom Paint 2005
Florida ResultsThe panels in Florida were much cleaner than the panels in Connecticut. As you see in the chart, seven paints came away with...
Teak Treatment All-Stars Finale
]That left eight of these products to soldier on. Mind you, all of them had ranked one, two or three in previous separate tests....
Bottom Paint 2004
About the only thing that's predictable about them is that they're unpredictable. That's what the experts say about sharks and twisters, and we've always...
Underwater Metal Coatings: Test Results
We reported in the August 1, 2003 issue on the phasing out of tributyltin (TBT) as the biocide of choice for antifouling paints. While...
Topside Paint Finale
Which topside gloss enamel should you apply to make your aging beauty again glisten in dawn's early light?
Here are the answers, in absolutely the...
Teak Treatment All-Stars After Six Months
Over the years, teak treatments and marine varnishes have been exhaustively tested by Practical Sailor. We can't recall when a test frame of some...
Antifouling Choices for Underwater Metals
Propellers, shafts, struts, outboard and Saildrive engine housings, and through-hull fittings, composed variously of bronze, stainless, and aluminum, are notoriously difficult to keep...
Catalina 356 Cruising Sailboat with BIG Features!
Thirty-six-foot Sailboats didn’t always have aft cabins, island beds, in-mast furling, electric windlasses and winches. The all-new Catalina 356 is a couple’s cruising boat...
Latest Sailboat Review
Ranger 33 Used Boat Review
The Ranger Yacht division of Jensen Marine was created in 1969 to build performance-oriented boats designed by Gary Mull. Jensen’s Cal division had been...