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Mailport: Cleat Sense
Regarding your recent blog post on cleat strength (Inside PS blog Striving for a Stronger Boat Cleat), a stout-looking Herreshoff-style aluminum cleat on my...
MAIB Safety Advisory Warns Tether Users
The sailing yacht CV30 was taking part in the third leg of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race having left Cape Town on...
Towing Generator Field Report
For free power when under sail on ocean passages, towing generators are hard to beat. In the early 1980s I purchased a first generation...
Mailport: Beauty of a Wood-trimmed Boat
Beauty of a Wood-trimmed BoatRegarding your recent blog post on the future of wood on boats (see Farewell to the Wood-trimmed Boat? Inside Practical...
Refitting After 200,000 Miles
In 1974, I was 22 years old and after reading Robin Lee Grahams articles in National Geographic and his book, Dove, I started my...
Reassessing Clip-in Location Points
Like the automobile safety belt, the various components that keep sailors from separating from their boat (the harness, tether, and jackline) have gone through...
Outland Hatch Covers Impress
Ultra-violet light is a relentless villain that destroys vinyl, gelcoat, paint, and lines, bit by bit. The best we can do is delay the...
Jackline Installation Advice
Material selection is just one of many details regarding jacklines that deserve careful thought. If you are re-installing your jacklines, be sure to read...
Reading the Weather
The air surrounding us on the surface of the earth weighs about 1.2 kilos per cubic meter, and when we stack up these invisible...
Chandlery: March 2015
Get a Grip on ItIn Edgar Rice Burroughs early Tarzan books, his hero never swings from vines-but Hollywoods version of the ape-man isn't off...