As the World Turns
We received a couple of letters this month from people who had trouble setting the tide functions on their Casio SPF-40 watches. One...
Waterproof Stereo Speakers
Everyone likes music, and though there are wrong times for it on the water (such as when navigating through a fog, or in a...
Fishfinders (a.k.a. Scanning Depthsounders)
Back in the mid-'90s, we compared cheap stand-alone depthsounders with cheap fishfinders. One of the conclusions we came to was that the discrete depthsounders...
Electronic Charting Evolution
The following report was written by RonDoescher, of Westford, MA. It started as a letter to Mailport, and turned into a very interesting...
Hand-Bearing Compasses
Aboard ships and boats, compasses with which to take bearings by hand have always been central to the navigator's toolkit. You can get by...
Navigation Software Update
It seems that every time we look around, someone has introduced a new charting/navigation program for laptop computers. While they all do essentially the...
Handheld Weather Stations
Walk down most marina docks at the start of a sailing weekend, and it's a good bet that you'll hear (in addition to the...
Night Vision
This is our third report on the growing assortment of night scopes marketed for the serious boater, and this is the third time the...
Communications Options
As much as sailors like to get away from it all, there's never been a time when we haven't wished at least for the...
The Yeoman Alternative
Over the past few years, we've done a lot of reporting on chart plotters and navigation software—some pretty amazing stuff that gets only...
Diesel Overheating Dinghy Pump Hack
Bert Vermeer tells his story of an overheating Beta Marine 20 diesel sailboat engine with clogged sail drive intake ports and how he used...
Latest Sailboat Review
Islander Bahama 30 Used Boat Review
More than a few years ago my wife Carey and I were looking to move up from our O’Day 25 to something a little...