Hull Hole Damage Control
It's hard to imagine anything worse than holing your boat at sea. We've all heard the stories… one minute you're sailing peaceably, the next...
Seasickness Remedies: Start With the Least Invasive
It was back in 1995-96 that we last discussed seasickness in Practical Sailor. Reviewing the sometimes acrid letters and responses that flowed forth and...
Emergency Rigging Cutters
Dismasting is right up there among a sailor's worst nightmares. When a mast comes down at sea, no matter how or why, there's tremendous...
Daytime Distress Signals: Flares Shine in the Wind
No matter how you put out a call for help on the water—VHF, EPIRB, cell phone, or mental telepathy—sooner or later you'll need to...
PFDs Set Straight
Personal Flotation Device, or PFD—the thing you used to call a life jacket—is probably the single most important safety aid you can use on...
Wrestling With PFDs
We have a good article on PFDs this month, and it's worried me every time I've looked at it. These worries can probably be...
Brinkmann, LSI, Optronics Shine Bright in Spotlight Test
If you've ever tried to locate a channel marker on a dark night, or to read the number on an unlit buoy in the...
Fire Extinguishers: A Good Bunch, But Get More than the Minimum
Another factor that struck us is the dramatic loss of visibility that occurs when you use one of these extinguishers. Our fire became completely...
Dead-Reckoning
A friend recently made a short delivery on a boat whose compass was fully 30 degrees deviated. No one worried about it. No one...
Personal Rescue Lights: Less Than Brilliant
If theres a lesson to be learned about personal rescue lights -the kind you have strapped or pinned to your PFD for when...
$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 26M Used Boat Review
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...