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...
Offshore Log: An Introduction to Europe
In Cyprus, we provisioned for about three months of cruising, so that we only need to top up fresh vegetables along the way. Our...
Offshore Log:The Mediterranean At Last
From start to finish, we had spent almost exactly four weeks covering the 1300 miles from Bab el Mandeb to Port Said....
Offshore Log:The Mediterranean At Last
From start to finish, we had spent almost exactly four weeks covering the 1300 miles from Bab el Mandeb to Port Said....
Aqua Vigil Alarm Is Simple but Quirky
To prevent these catastrophes, we employ all manner of backup systems—electric bilge pumps, switches, and alarms, usually dependent on the boat's 12-volt batteries....
Offshore Log: A Close Call in the Red Sea
Early the next morning, I dove to look for damage. There was none, other than some scraped bottom paint on the keel. We had...
Too Expensive To Bury
The test report in the March 1, 1997 issue of Practical Sailor called the KVH Datascope “the king of the hand-bearing compasses.” Although expensive,...
Boat Ladder for Inflatables
Ladders for use around and aboard the boat? For docks and rafts, hook-on-the-rail models, stern mounts, folding, extending, the new center bar sport ladders…there...
Sextants: Do We Really Have To?
It's been twenty years since we've looked at sextants (June 1, 1981), and the sad fact is that with Nick Nicholson in the middle...
Offshore Log: Scoots, An Apogee 50
Every now and then, you run into a cruising boat that seems exceptionally well-suited to the job. Skip and Ilze Sims’ Apogee 50 Scoots...
The UNIQUE Maxus 26 Lifting Keel Trailer Sailor
What is the best trailerable sailboat? One big feature is the mast stepping system. Today we look at trailer sailors like the Catalina 275,...
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Beneteau began building boats in France in 1884 when Beneteau opened shop for the purpose of constructing trawlers at Croix-de-Vie. Eighty years later, under...