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PS Advisor: 02/01/04

Sails, Rigging & Deck Gear January 11, 2004

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

Sails, Rigging & Deck Gear January 11, 2004

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

Sails, Rigging & Deck Gear January 11, 2004

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

Sails, Rigging & Deck Gear November 11, 2003

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

Sails, Rigging & Deck Gear November 10, 2003

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

Sails, Rigging & Deck Gear October 6, 2003

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

Sails, Rigging & Deck Gear September 17, 2003

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

Sails, Rigging & Deck Gear September 17, 2003

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

Sails, Rigging & Deck Gear June 3, 2003

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

Sails, Rigging & Deck Gear March 12, 2003

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....