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The Art of Seamanship: Evolving Skills, Exploring Oceans, and Handling Wind, Waves, and Weather Book from Practical Sailor

11 Keys to Navigation

Excerpted from The Art of Seamanship by Ralph Naranjo In the book The Art of Seamanship, we discuss these keys to navigation which together form...
The Art of Seamanship: Evolving Skills, Exploring Oceans, and Handling Wind, Waves, and Weather Book from Practical Sailor

Sail Repair

Excerpted from The Art of Seamanship by Ralph Naranjo We don’t practice the art of repairing sails at sea as much as we used to,...
The Art of Seamanship: Evolving Skills, Exploring Oceans, and Handling Wind, Waves, and Weather Book from Practical Sailor

Making Sure the Right Strings Are Attached

Excerpted from The Art of Seamanship by Ralph Naranjo Cordage and performance go hand in hand, and when replacing halyards, sheets, guys, toppings lifts, outhauls,...
The Art of Seamanship: Evolving Skills, Exploring Oceans, and Handling Wind, Waves, and Weather Book from Practical Sailor

Attributes of a Good Crewmember

Excerpted from The Art of Seamanship by Ralph Naranjo Capable crewmembers are attuned to the vessel they’re aboard and the mission it serves. Daysailors, ocean...

Who’s Paying?

Excerpted from Renee D. Petrillo’s A Sail of Two Idiots In 2006 the boat market was still doing pretty well, if you were a seller....

Hauling Out and DIY

Excerpted from Renee D. Petrillo’s A Sail of Two Idiots While on Grenada, we discovered that our boat insurance was coming due and that the...

Storm Trysails

A storm trysail rarely gets the close look it deserves. Designed to replace the mainsail in a severe storm, it spends most of its...

Asymmetrical Spinnakers

Asymmetrical spinnakers – “A-sails” as many sailors have grown to refer to them – are in many respects a simplification of the conventional, symmetrical...

Playing the Musical Sails Game

While having a robust sail inventory is considered a must on most racing sailboats, it’s often thought to be more of a luxury for...

String Theory

Sails are a fascinating engineering statement, and when all is said and done, what’s sought after is the lightest material possible that will neither...

43 Foot Cruising Sailboats – The Elan Impression 43

In a sea of French production cruising sailboats like the new Beneteau 37.1 and Oceanis 40.1, or the Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 350 and 380,...
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Fast Cruising Sailboat J 45

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Beneteau First 375 Used Boat Review

A Mexican vacation with her husband had Debbie Bulk dreaming of a better way to see local village life, away from the regular tourist...