Stabilizing Cameras and Video Cameras Underway
Anyone who has ever tried to stabilize a camera aboard a moving boat knows how difficult it can be to keep the equipment dry,...
Portable Sailing Tools for Tracking and Tuning Boat Speed
The marine GPS receiver in its purest form is meant to answer three important questions: Where are we? What direction are we going? How...
Mailport: February 2010
I understand you are going to do an article on navigating by phone using the iPhone. I thought you may be interested in my...
Multiplexing Marine Electronics
In the last three years, Practical Sailor has looked at several ways to integrate personal computers into our navigation routine. In July 2006, we...
GPS Receivers for Smart Phone Navigators
Medicated chartplotters and charting software installed on computers without serial ports are slowly changing the architecture of marine GPS receivers. Where every marine GPS...
New Waterproof Handheld VHFs Enter Crowded Market
Electronics is undoubtedly the most rapidly changing category of marine products, and the steady stream of new VHF radios is a good example of...
Testing Smart Phones at Sea
With the hopes of answering readers questions about the viability of using a "smart phone" or Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) and the requisite charts...
Stocking Stuffers For Sailors
Its hard to believe, but the 2009 holiday season is upon us. As is custom, Practical Sailor editors have put together a varied roundup...
Top-of-the-Line VHFs Packed with Multi-function Features
The fixed-mount marine VHF radios Practical Sailorreviewed this go round go way beyond the basic capabilities of the more moderately priced gear featured in...
Practical Sailor Tests AIS Class B Transceivers from West Marine and Navico
Practical Sailor last took a look at Automatic Identification System (AIS) units with the November 2008 evaluation of the Raymarine AIS250, a receive-only device....
Full Tour of this IMPRESSIVE Sailboat – The Jeanneau Yachts 55
Are you shopping for a world cruising 55 foot sailboat? At this years Miami International Boat show we caught up with Jeanneau and toured...
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When the Cape Dory 30 entered production in 1976, it was the largest boat in the expanding line of the Taunton, Massachusetts boatbuilder. In...