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Is Your Dinghy Ready for the Unexpected?

Ever since my own brush with a breezy day that turned an afternoon dinghy sail into an arduous struggle to get back to shore,...

Dinghy Accessories: Practical Sailors Gonna Pump You Up

Bottom Line: The Bravo 12 puts out a high volume of air at reasonable pressure, and testers liked its automatic cut-off. However, the units...

Deep Dirt: Whats the Best Inflatable Boat Cleaners For Stubborn Stains on a Dinghy?

It often seems that this whole boat-cleaner craze is getting out of hand. These days, the shelves of marine chandleries are crowded with black-streak...

Trolling Motor as Dinghy Auxiliary

For dinghy propulsion, if we can make this motor last a few years in the light-duty circumstances described above, we won't be going back...

Dinghy Review: Walker Bay Genesis 270 FTD

This Walker Bay RIB is a well-executed, but heavy, plastic inflatable dinghy. Its thermo-molded hull resists impact, wont chip like gelcoat, and is easy...

The Tragedy of the Driverless Dinghy

In the wake of a terrible tragedy that struck a few days before Thanksgiving in Sarasota, Florida, home of the Sarasota Youth Sailing Program...

Inflatable-dinghy Paint Torture Test

Durability and elasticity are our principal comparative factors in this test, but testers also considered ease of application, coating adhesion to substrate, resistance to...

Rebuilding a Cape Dory 36 Part IV

This is the fourth article in a five-part series describing the rebuild of our 1982 Cape Dory 36 and how we turned it into...

The Super-compact Sailboat Dodger

Sailing in general, but especially offshore, can sometimes be a wet experience particularly on a low-freeboard boat like Far Reach, our highly modified Cape...

Sailboat Safety on Deck

We often think of safety on deck in terms of PFDs, lifelines and jacklines, but the falls they protect against only happen after something...