Facelift for Saggy Liner

The headliner in my boats cabin is beginning to sag. I have tried to secure it to the overhead again, but I am having...

The Cruising Sailor’s Drivetrain

after approximately seven years, which means that we have just fitted our third unit. The first one is still onboard as a spare and...

The Cruising Sailor’s Drivetrain

  Andy O'Grady and wife Ulla Norlander have sailed their 42-foot gaff cutter Balaena to the far corners of the planet. At the end of 1999,...

Mailport: 12/06

MARINE INSURANCE REDUXI have been reading with much interest your articles about marine insurance this year (April and May 2006). Every year, I look...

Riding the ‘A’-train

Almost every production-built boat that PS editors and contributors go aboard these days has an inventory that includes an asymmetrical spinnaker. That isn’t a...

Riding the ‘A’-train

Almost every production-built boat that PS editors and contributors go aboard these days has an inventory that includes an asymmetrical spinnaker. That isn’t a...

A Fistful of Splicing Fids

While pre-spliced lines are easy to come by these days through marine chandleries, riggers, or the major rope suppliers, the sailors art of splicing...

Seven Muscular Winches

The origin of the magnificent machine called a winch is obscure. It ranks almost as high as the lever, which can provide unlimited mechanical...

Garhauer Launches Hefty New Traveler

All the components of this system—end fittings, mainsheet connection shackles, sheaves, etc.—are fixed in place using stainless bolts with hex heads. Except for the...

Clutch Play

A book could be written about the ways sailors have struggled with the bitter end of a rope. Many are the devices seamen have...

$650,000 Yacht Tour : Hanse 460 – This Luxury Cruising Sailboat...

In the $500,000+ cruising sailboat market, the competition for world traveling sailboats is full of exceptional sailing yachts like the Catalina 445, the Amel...

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MacGregor 26M Used Boat Review

MacGregor 26 has been a staple in the trailerable sailboat market for decades, and company literature claimed more than 7,000 of the original model...