PS Advisor: 02/01/04
Anchoring Hand SignalsYour recent article on anchoring prompted a discussion among friends. Is there an agreed-upon set of hand signals for anchoring, between...
Headsail Roller Furlers
Headsail furlers, once a novelty scorned by "real" sailors, are everywhere nowadays. The reasons for their widespread use boil down to two advantages: the...
Plea-Free Tacking
I wonder how many people have given up sailing because of the effort it takes to tack a genoa shorthanded. Aside from hitting hard...
Kellets On the Rode
The day after our anchor tests this year we took a couple of commercially made anchor rode sentinels (also called kellets) out into the...
Anchor Tests 2003: Soft Sand Over Hard Sand
The more we test anchors, the more we remind ourselves of the obvious: This is a topic fraught with variables. It's like the blind...
Sailmakers’ Advice and Prices
For this second article, we asked all our interview subjects to price out a suit of sails (mainsail and 150-percent furling headsail) for...
PS Advisor: 10/01/03
Riding Sails Ive read several articles about the benefits of riding sails while atanchor, on a mooring, even during hurricanes.What size is right so...
Market Scan: Sails and Sailmakers
Trying to pin down the technology, trade names, and jargon that define contemporary sailmaking is more than daunting—but it must be done once in...
PS Advisor: 07/15/03
Storm Jib ProvenanceA barely used, but well constructed, Haarstick storm jib was included with our recently purchased Tartan 34. The clew grommet seems undersized-...
Rod Holders
Almost every well-traveled tropical water sailor we've ever met has been a fisherman, with specific fishing techniques tailored to the particular nature of sailboats....