Summer Sailing Gear
Summers warm breezes and lazy weekends have arrived, so PS testers have put together a lineup of cool toys and tools for the dog...
Mailport: June 2013
How thick is too thick for the buildup of old layers of bottom paint? This question arises because I have just finished painting the...
Anchor Tests: Bending More Shanks
Benefits of BuryingBy comparing these field tests to the controlled, graduated loading tests that we carried out for the April 2013 article, it seems...
Bends and Breaks: Anchor Shank Strength
As more and more anchor-makers source their materials and move their fabricating offshore, Practical Sailor has been fielding an increasing number of questions regarding...
A Second Look at Anchor Tests
Anchor testing at Practical Sailor has always been a controversial enterprise, sure to fire up someone. As one reader commented in response our most...
The Hassles of Hockles
Taking the advice of a PS review, I installed a Lewmar V2 windlass on my boat in 2008. I went with the installers recommendation...
Anchor Resetting Tests
Practical Sailor has carried out dozens of anchor tests over the years. The majority of these tests have compared the ability of various anchor...
Attack of the Zebra Mussel
For 20-plus years, I have removed my mooring buoy from the water at the end of the sailing season on Lake Champlain. This year,...
Life Rafts, Pride, and Prejudice
My cruising life often seems like a string of disasters narrowly averted-storms, reefs, mechanical failures, bad enchiladas-but the most frightening near miss (apropos of...
The Custom Winter Cover
We now have a boat-an Allied Seabreeze 35 sloop, hull number 23, from 1965-and overall, its a well-kept and sea-kindly boat. Winter is coming,...
Fast Cruising Sailboat J 45
Are you interested in a very fast and capable 45 foot cruising sailboat? Today we bring you the J Boats J/45 cruising sailboat which...
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Beneteau Oceanis 41 Used Boat Review
Beneteau has been building sailboats for 120 years, but it’s unlikely that patriarch Benjamin Beneteau ever envisioned his boatyard becoming a vertically integrated company...