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Jamming GPS Signals, the Lightsquared Way
This months report on satellite communication devices focuses on existing technology, so it does not dig into one of the more controversial satcomm topics...
Fighting Off Marine Electrical System Corrosion
There's no question we're in the middle of a revolution in off-the-grid technology for cruising sailing. Over the past few weeks, I've watched three...
The Do-it-Yourself Sail Track Cleaner
Racers demand lightning-fast hoists. Cruisers tire of the effort required to grind a heavy main up a sticky track. Roller furler foils that have...
Making Sense of Solvents
The paint aisle is crowded with products to thin or clean up everything. Your dockmate suggests that X is the stronger solvent, that Y...
Offshore Log:More Gear for the New Year
It's hard to believe that when we took off around the world just seven years ago, Calypso was one of the few sailboats of...
Mailport: March 2020
Carbon Foam Battery?
I saw your article in about Firefly batteries (carbon foam) in the May 2015 issue of Practical Sailor “Can Carbon Fiber Batteries...
Brewer 12.8/44
The Brewer 12.8 and the Brewer 44 are developments of the Whitby 42, a cruising boat from the board of Ted Brewer. Brewer is...
Crealock 37
The Crealock 37 is the largest boat built by Pacific Seacraft, a California company that has carved a comfortable and ever-growing niche in the...
Hinckley Bermuda 40
The Henry R. Hinckley & Co. The name is known to every American sailor. Or should be. It connotes different things to different people,...
Niagara 31/35
Occasionally we hear from a sufficient number of owners requesting a Practical Sailor report on their boat that we cannot forever resist their supplications....