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Mailport: August 2010
I sail a 2009 Hunter H33. This is our second season on her. We sail a big inland lake in North Dakota and do...
Galley Lighting
When we last dropped in on the realm of interior lighting (Practical Sailor January 2009), we looked at light emitting diode (LED) replacements for...
GPS Receivers for Smart Phone Navigators
Medicated chartplotters and charting software installed on computers without serial ports are slowly changing the architecture of marine GPS receivers. Where every marine GPS...
Two 12-inch Chartplotters Go Head-to-Head
One of the biggest drawbacks to chartplotter navigation is that the size of the screen limits the amount of chart information that the viewer...
Mailport: 10/09
Multihull RebukeYou say that the September issues "Need for Speed" article is all about performance? Kidding right? Light-air performance? What you really meant is...
Practical Sailor Tests Lightweight Tether Aimed at Racing Sailors
Theres a reason why we recommend safety tethers-the umbilical cords that connect the jacklines on our boats to the harnesses on our bodies-be 6...
Marine Electronics Test: A Look at Combination Fishfinders and Chartplotters
2)]Standard Horizon CP180The CP180 chartplotter comes with a Smart GPS sensor. For the test, we added the Standard Horizon FF520 black-box sounder, an Airmar...
Practical Sailors Picks for Summer Reading List
While you wont find any pulp fiction on Practical Sailors reading list this summer, some of our favorites are light enough for evening cockpit...
Have GPS, Digital Charts, and Radar Replaced the True Art of Navigation?
Over the last 30 years, nothing in recreational boating has changed as much as the navigators routine. In 1975, the practice of fixing ones...
Well Grounded
We recently installed an aluminum fuel tank on our 1984 Endeavour 40. During installation, we took several steps to avoid galvanic corrosion, including fixing...