Chandlery: August 2011
The ToolPak retails for $100 and is guaranteed to be free of defects in workmanship and materials for one year.Compared to the last toolbag...
Pros and Cons of Lowrance’s BR24 Broadband Radar
Getting these types of results at close range will depend on the placement of the radar antenna. Like conventional radar, the BR24 is limited...
Pros and Cons of Lowrances BR24 Broadband Radar
Getting these types of results at close range will depend on the placement of the radar antenna. Like conventional radar, the BR24 is limited...
Design for: Through-Deck Fittings for Coaxial Cable
Sealing the holes in decks where Loran and VHF antenna cables penetrate is a fairly common problem on modern boats. If there were only...
Route-planning Software Review
For this evaluation, we decided to use the Visual Passage Planner to re-create a historic passage by Joseph Conrad in 1888. By Conrads account,...
Chandlery: June 2011
In our eternal quest to be fouling-free beneath the waterline, we recently picked up a tube of Prop Glop antifoulant for propellers and running...
Speed Tools Give Racing Sailors Starting-line Advantage
Once the start line is defined, the ProStart will display distance to line within .75 to 3 meters, depending on the location of satellites...
New-gen Night Vision for Mariners
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For a long time, seeing in the dark was a pipedream put in the same column as eternal youth and sure-thing investment opportunities. Times...
Is AIS Chipping Away at Our Freedoms?
Sailors who read George Orwells 1984 when it was first published 62 years ago probably wrote off being tracked as a technological feat that...
Pump Details: Wiring, Clamps, and Inlet Ports
All the test toilets had at least one electric pump to handle supply and flushing duties; some had one pump for each job. The...
$650,000 Yacht Tour : Hanse 460 – This Luxury Cruising Sailboat...
In the $500,000+ cruising sailboat market, the competition for world traveling sailboats is full of exceptional sailing yachts like the Catalina 445, the Amel...
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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...