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...
In Distress? Theres No App for That
This months review of "smart phone" navigation tools and software got me thinking about my own descent into the mobile phone abyss, and more...
PS Advisor: Replacing Lifelines
I replaced my boat’s 20-inch, single-line stanchions with 24-inch double-line stanchions as I have two young children (2 and 3 years old). What kind...
Testers Take Tacktick and Nexus Wind Instruments for a Spin
Few things are as frustrating as trying to run a new wire through a boat. Unless the builder had the foresight to include some...
Mens Foul-Weather Gear Update
The world of marine apparel is continuously evolving, following fashion trends and innovations in materials. One of the newest players to toss their hat...
West Marine and Zodiac V-bottom Inflatable Dinghies Put to the Test
Remember when Forrest Gumps friend Bubba sounded all of the different ways you can prepare shrimp? "Deys shrimp-kabobs, shrimp Creole, shrimp gumbo, pan fried,...
The Lightweight, Carbon-Fiber Wing Dinghy is a Classy, Rowable Sailing Dinghy
It is a shame that just as the materials for an ideal rigid dinghy have become readily available, outboards and rubber inflatables have all...
Two 12-inch Chartplotters Go Head-to-Head
One of the biggest drawbacks to chartplotter navigation is that the size of the screen limits the amount of chart information that the viewer...
A Sailboat Tour of the Exquisite Little Harbor 63 Ketch
Are you interested in a sailboat tour of an ocean crossing bluewater sailboat lush with teak and fine woodwork? Join us as we take...
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PDQ Yachts in Whitby, Ontario, Canada, launched the Alan Slater-designed PDQ 32 catamaran in 1994 and built 53 of the boats in the following...