Holiday Gift Ideas for Sailors
Sailors are a practical lot. Sure, wed all enjoy a Fruit of the Month membership, but if you really want to make a sailors...
The Year’s Top Sailing Gear
Anchoring and MooringDinghy AnchorsSailors spend considerable time pondering their anchoring arsenal for the mothership, but what about the dinghy? In the December 2015 issue,...
Gear for the Small-boat Sailor
Bottom line: The Good To-Go meals ($11.50) are very easy to prepare (just add boiling water and wait); store nearly flat in non-rusting, paper-foil...
Nautix Makes Data Easy to See
Garmin recently released a new-age-looking boat-data display that will certainly appeal to technophiles and racing sailors. The portable, hands-free Nautix In-view Display attaches to...
Sailing Gear for Kids
Whether your mini crewmembers are bound for a weekend family cruise or summer sailing camp, equipping them with the right gear will ensure their...
Lume-On Lights Up Life Jacket Bladders
A night-time man-overboard (MOB) scenario is the stuff of sailor nightmares. Darkness adds to the difficulty of locating a person in the water, a...
Gifts for Sailing Parents
With Mothers Day and Fathers Day looming, we dug through our Chandlery items to find things that would make good gifts for sailing moms...
Soul Dry Suit 2-year Update
After teeth-chattering his way through some brutal winters sailing beach cats on Chesapeake Bay-protected only by a 3/16-inch neoprene suit that made the cold...
Where Credit is Due: West Marine, Forespar, and More!
West MarineI purchased West Marine Third Reef foul-weather gear in 2008 at the Miami Beach boat show. The jackets inner liner started shedding, leaving...
Binocular Update
Binoculars can be an expensive piece of kit, but they are essential safety gear for the mariner. Being able to clearly identify any object...
The Boat From True Spirit – Sparkman & Stephens
True Spirit is a 2023 Australian biographical drama film directed by Sarah Spillane and written by Spillane, Cathy Randall, and Rebecca Banner. The film...
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Beneteau 311, Catalina 310 and Hunter 326 Used Boat Comparison
In an ideal world, all sailors would start in prams at the age of six, then move to small, forgivingsloops, and then one-design racingboats,...