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...
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: A Simple Outboard Lifting Crane
For two years, we struggled to get our 8-hp. Yamaha outboard from its storage location on the stern rail to the transom of our...
Offshore Log: Robertson AP 300CS on Trial. Bob Earns His Keep
Our trip from Venezuela to Bonaire was the first real test of Bob, our Robertson AP 300CX autopilot. He passed with flying colors.Although I...
Offshore Log: Downwind to Bonaire
Calypso slunk out of Venezuela on Pearl Harbor Day, 1998. This was the day after that countrys presidential elections, the day after a self-styled...
Offshore Log: Robertson AP 300CS on Trial. Bob Earns His Keep
Our trip from Venezuela to Bonaire was the first real test of Bob, our Robertson AP 300CX autopilot. He passed with flying colors.Although I...
Jeppesen and The Cap’n Top Picks For Electronic Charting
It wasnt very many years ago that the only tools a boater needed for navigation were a compass, some paper charts, a pair of...
Catalina 356 Cruising Sailboat with BIG Features!
Thirty-six-foot Sailboats didn’t always have aft cabins, island beds, in-mast furling, electric windlasses and winches. The all-new Catalina 356 is a couple’s cruising boat...
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Ranger 33 Used Boat Review
The Ranger Yacht division of Jensen Marine was created in 1969 to build performance-oriented boats designed by Gary Mull. Jensen’s Cal division had been...