Marine Electronics

Banish Junky Anchor Rode Markers

For the boat owner who thinks he has everything, there is yet still another bit of electronic wizardry…a widget that tells you how much...

Mailport 08/01/00

Handheld GPSI have the greatest respect for the equipment reviews in Practical Sailor, but I think that you overlooked very critical attributes for your...

Close As A Pencil Point

On May 1, President Clinton announced that the selective availability (SA) system used to degrade GPS (global positioning system) signals was terminated, effective at...

Self-Starting Diesel?

Perhaps it was somebodys idea of a joke. Who walks away from their boat and leaves the engine running? But when I climbed back...

Spinlock’s PX Power Cleat Releases Under Load

Perhaps nothing on boats has developed as steadily and soundly as line-holding devices—cams, clams, jams, clutches, stoppers and plain old horned cleats.There were some...

Spinlock’s PX Power Cleat Releases Under Load

Perhaps nothing on boats has developed as steadily and soundly as line-holding devices—cams, clams, jams, clutches, stoppers and plain old horned cleats.There were some...

Color GPS Chartplotters: Si-Tex Nautilus is a Best Buy

Following our evaluation of grayscale GPS/chartplotters in the June 1999 issue, we decided to look at a sampling of popular color GPS/chartplotters to see...

Belt Tension Gauges

Practical Sailor’s editor-at-large, Nick Nicholson, writing in the Offshore Log in the May 1999 issue, discussed a breakdown of Calypso’s high-output alternator.Because such alternators...

Color GPS Chartplotters: Si-Tex Nautilus is a Best Buy

Following our evaluation of grayscale GPS/chartplotters in the June 1999 issue, we decided to look at a sampling of popular color GPS/chartplotters to see...

Nav Software: Visual Navigation Suite vs. The Cap’n

Electronic charting, whether in the form of dedicated chartplotters that live on your boat or software that lives on your computer, is definitely 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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Vancouver 27 Used Boat Review

I was single handed on our Islander Bahama 30 on a spectacular fall afternoon, white caps dancing on the blue waters of Plumper Sound...