Breaking Point: What Can Go Wrong With Your Yanmar?
If you want to know more about the little Yanmar chugging away in your sailboat, it helps to learn about this iconic engine maker’s...
Do-it-yourself Electrical System Survey and Inspection
So, you’ve finally purchased that new (or new-to-you) boat of your dreams. As with any budding relationship, put this honeymoon period to good use...
Rudder Mods for Low-speed Docking
Any sailor who has tried to wrestle a full-keel ketch with a barn-door rudder into a tight slip has probably wondered if they could...
Using Heat to Bend PVC Pipe
Over the decades, marine equipment has gone through a dramatic transformation as plastics have steadily crept into our onboard lives. In this first in...
Powering Your Boat Through a Storm
Asailing auxiliary engine should never be fully relied upon to bash into a storm; they are not sized for that. In many boats, the...
Marine Diesel Repower Part 3: Sea Trial
This is the last of a three-part series describing the planning and installation of an inboard diesel engine in my previously engine-free Cape Dory...
Estimating Total Capacity in an Old Battery
Volt meters, ammeters, and bank monitors can all give you part of the story, but only a draw-down test, performed over 6-24 hours will...
Solar Power and Battery Checkup
Batteries and solar panels can be a black box. We can’t see or hear or feel what is going on inside. They’re not complicated...
Rhumb Lines: Yes, We Are the Lucky Ones
Slow down. Stretch. Breathe.
Before we let the coming summer carry us away, dreamy, windswept, mouth wide open, ready to inhale each sultry moment and...
Diesel Repower From Scratch Part II
This is Part II of a three-part series detailing the installation of a complete inboard engine system into our highly modified Cape Dory 36...
$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...