Safety & Seamanship

CO Detectors: Its MTI Safe-T-Alert

Combine any enclosed occupied space with a combustion process and you have the recipe for possible carbon monoxide poisoning. An inboard-powered boat, by definition,...

Offshore Log: Routine Maintenance Is A Lot of Work!

Our primary sail-trimming hardware-mainsheet traveler and blocks, genoa cars and puller tackles-is all Harken, and has proven to be an excellent choice. It is...

Offshore Log: Tight Security in Venezuela

It has been two years since the very green but very bright-eyed crew of Calypso set out from Newport to embark on the cruising...

Marine Electronics:Garmin 48 Tops in Handheld GPS

As it is with notebook computers, GPS receivers continue to evolve into faster, smaller and more powerful devices. Our latest crop of test models...

Offshore Log:Big Change in the Foretriangle

Although Calypso is rigged as a cutter, we sail her as a sloop. Most of the time we use the genoa, reducing its area...

Offshore Log:Another Year, Another Bottom Paint

By the time we finally moved westward from Trinidad in late September, Calypso had spent most of the 1998 hurricane season in Trinidad, south...

Marine Electronics:Garmin 48 Tops in Handheld GPS

As it is with notebook computers, GPS receivers continue to evolve into faster, smaller and more powerful devices. Our latest crop of test models...

Offshore Log:Winch Maintenance – Do It Now, Not Later

Maintenance aboard a cruising boat is truly never-ending. Twenty years of preparation for offshore racing have left us with an absolute fetish for the...

Offshore Log: Up the Mast, One at a Time

Many PS readers undoubtedly found our articles on going aloft alone (July 1, 1998 and August 15, 1998) a little esoteric, but for the...

Fantome

Amid all the media coverage of last Octobers Hurricane Mitch and the havoc wrecked on Central America was the sea story of Fantome, a...

A Terrible Sailing Accident – SV Platino

This week, a cautionary tale of sailing vessel Platino. A sailing accident, equipment failure leading to dismasting and rescue. We discuss what led up...
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Fast Cruising Sailboat J 45

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Beneteau First 375 Used Boat Review

A Mexican vacation with her husband had Debbie Bulk dreaming of a better way to see local village life, away from the regular tourist...