Practical Sailor Tracks Down the Best LED Tri-color Light
When it comes to navigation lights aboard sailboats, brighter is definitely better. And our latest tests of LED nav lights proved that more light...
Person-Overboard Retrieval Techniques
The term Man Overboard (MOB) has been caught in the tide of political correctness, and terminology like Crew Overboard (COB) and Person in the...
Multiplexing Marine Electronics
In the last three years, Practical Sailor has looked at several ways to integrate personal computers into our navigation routine. In July 2006, we...
GPS Receivers for Smart Phone Navigators
Medicated chartplotters and charting software installed on computers without serial ports are slowly changing the architecture of marine GPS receivers. Where every marine GPS...
Mariner Resources on the Web
The Internet is an almost endless source of information, but finding what you need can be a frustrating task. We’ve tried to streamline the...
Boater Resources and Sailing Stories to Kindle Your Winter Daydreams
Colder, shorter winter days limit the time (most) sailors get to spend on the water. The good news is that wintertime also offers us...
Putting Words into Practice
This months report on man-overboard recovery (pages 7-11) offers a chilling reminder of why our testers spend so much time evaluating jacklines, harnesses, and...
PS Advisor: Can AIS Serve as Backup GPS?
In your testing of the West Marine AIS1000 (September 2009), did you identify what NMEA sentences it outputs? I’m thinking of buying one and...
Testing Smart Phones at Sea
With the hopes of answering readers questions about the viability of using a "smart phone" or Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) and the requisite charts...
Drug-free Seasickness Solutions
Ginger, lollipops, herbal concoctions, aromatherapy, earrings, acupressure, electrical stimulation: These and more have been touted at one time or another as preventing mal de...
The AMAZING 50 Footer You’ve Never Heard Of – Pegasus 50...
A 50 footer packed with innovation for shorthanded cruising, the Pegasus 50 has features like carbon fiber rig, bulkheads, and bimini. When compared to...
Latest Sailboat Review
Pacific Seacraft 34 and 37
Pacific Seacraft was founded in 1976 by Henry Morschladt and Mike Howarth, who first produced 25-foot daysailers. Like many boatbuilders, the company suffered during...