Waypoints Tips

Boat Owner’s Mechanical & Electrical Manual book from Practical Sailor

Winterizing Your Sailboat

For many, it’s time to think about winterizing. It is far better to perform most routine maintenance at the end of the season when...
Boat Owner’s Mechanical & Electrical Manual Book from Practical Sailor

Rig Inspections

Early Asian-built sailboats had hardware and fittings especially tangs and turnbuckles that came from backyard foundries where little or no concern was given to...
Boat Owner’s Mechanical & Electrical Manual Book from Practical Sailor

Boat Clinic: Tuning the Masthead Rig

Tuning the rig of a boat is one of the necessary — and unpleasant — tasks that must be done to achieve good boat...
Boat Owner’s Mechanical & Electrical Manual Book from Practical Sailor

How Much Heat Do You Need?

Have you ever stopped and thought about how many boat heating options there are? It can be over-whelming even for the most experienced technical...
Boat Owner’s Mechanical & Electrical Manual Book from Practical Sailor

Factors To Consider When Heating Your Boat

Have you ever stopped and thought about how many boat heating options there are? It can be over-whelming even for the most experienced technical...
Boat Owner’s Mechanical & Electrical Manual Book from Practical Sailor

How To Choose the Best Heat Source for Your Boat

Have you ever stopped and thought about how many boat heating options there are? It can be over-whelming even for the most experienced technical...
Boat Owner’s Mechanical & Electrical Manual Book from Practical Sailor

Protecting Your Boat From Lightning Strikes

Most boat owners have only the vaguest idea of what is involved in protecting their boats from lightning damage. Many believe that their boats...
Boat Owner’s Mechanical & Electrical Manual Book from Practical Sailor

Getting the Charge out of Lightning

Most boat owners have only the vaguest idea of what is involved in protecting their boats from lightning damage. Many believe that their boats...
Boat Maintenance: The Essential Guide to Cleaning, Painting, and Cosmetics Book from Practical Sailor

Choosing a Bottom Paint for Dummies

It's easy enough to choose the most effective paint from our semi-annual bottom paint reports, but that paint might not always be the best...
The Art of Seamanship: Evolving Skills, Exploring Oceans, and Handling Wind, Waves, and Weather Book from Practical Sailor

Spotting Buoys

Excerpted from The Art of Seamanship by Ralph Naranjo Two important pieces of gear help in spotting buoys. Spotlights. A bright spotlight and a good pair...

Leopard Catamaran Delamination – Leopard 42 Boat Review

Are you interested in a cruising catamaran sailboat? Today we discuss the Leopard 42 and the Lagoon 42. One company is owned by Beneteau,...

Latest Sailboat Review

Hans Christian 34/36

The story of the Hans Christian 34 and 36, and their successors, is a microcosm of the history of the Taiwan/U.S. boatbuilding industry. That...