Spare Parts
Kenyon InstrumentsReader Ernie Copp owns some old Kenyon instruments. The company has long been out of business. Following his successful search to find someone...
Top 10 Products for 1999
Choosing the best gear for sailboats isn't easy. But at Practical Sailor were used to doing just that. The job is easiest when empirical...
Special Section – AnchoringAnchor and Mooring Chains: Vinyl-Covered Chain is the Pits
Our attention was forcefully drawn to the subject of mooring chains when the chain anchoring our raft, the Foulbottom, parted in a storm, and...
Special Section – AnchoringIn Mud, the CQR and Barnacle Rank at the Top of...
If you spend time over mud bottoms, the anchor to have, according to Practical Sailors latest round of anchor tests, is a good old...
Special Section – AnchoringAnchor and Mooring Chains: Vinyl-Covered Chain is the Pits
Our attention was forcefully drawn to the subject of mooring chains when the chain anchoring our raft, the Foulbottom, parted in a storm, and...
Special Section – AnchoringIn Mud, the CQR and Barnacle Rank at the Top of...
If you spend time over mud bottoms, the anchor to have, according to Practical Sailors latest round of anchor tests, is a good old...
Six-Brand Winch Test: Anderson On Top
Anyone who has been on the bitter end of the sheet when a big genoa starts to fill—whipping and shaking with terrifying violence—knows how...
Offshore Log: A New Sail Inventory
PS readers sometimes comment on our seemingly profligate ways: trying one thing, getting rid of it if it doesn’t perform perfectly, replacing with something...
Banish Junky Anchor Rode Markers
For the boat owner who thinks he has everything, there is yet still another bit of electronic wizardry…a widget that tells you how much...
Sea Anchors & Drogues
Sea anchors are as old as seafaring. Sailors through the ages have carried buckets, bags, cones—just about everything except the kitchen sink—and thrown them...
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...