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...
Offshore Log: Paradise Lost
Events on small islands on the far side of the world have little impact on most Americans, but they can dramatically change the plans...
Offshore Log: Charting A Course
My youthful infatuation with maps has a lot to do with the fact that we are now aboard a sailboat almost halfway around the...
PS Advisor 09/01/00
Inflatable vs. Hard DinghyI have recently bought a nice, old 38' Shannon ketch, and she has dinghy davits. I have no dinghy, but am...
Sea Marshall Rescue Systems
The greatest fear of any sailor perhaps is the cry, “Man-overboard!” It’s not a common occurrence, but it can and does happen. Sometimes the...
Offshore Log: Waiting at the Panama Canal
Driven by strong northeasterlies, Calypso careened between the huge red and green daymarks on the ends of the east and west breakwaters guarding the...
Offshore Log: Alternator Breakdown
Because we have engine-driven refrigeration, our Perkins 4-108 must be run about 1.5 hours per day to maintain the contents of the freezer in...
Offshore Log: Across the Isthmus
In early February, the last gate at Miraflores Locks opened to complete Calypsos transit of the Panama Canal. We were in the Pacific at...
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Are you looking into how to wash clothes on a boat? I set out to figure out which washing machine to install on my...
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When the Cape Dory 30 entered production in 1976, it was the largest boat in the expanding line of the Taunton, Massachusetts boatbuilder. In...