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Inspecting the Aging Sailboat tip #1
Excerpted from Don Caseys Inspecting the Aging SailboatThere arent many experiences more ripe with promise than buying a boat. When you find the very...
US Sailing Investigators Recommendations
Ron Trossbach, the lead investigator for US Sailing in the Rambler 100 incident, recommended the following changes to US Sailing’s Offshore Special Regulations (OSR)...
Life on the EdgeState of the Art Boatbuilding
by Nick NicholsonMost of us have boats built of fiberglass, laid up in female molds as part of a production boatbuilding process. We have...
Offshore Log:The Whitbread 60s After 20,000 Tortuous Miles At Sea
By the time the nine Whitbread 60s reached Sao Sebastiao, Brazil in late February, they had raced more than 20,000 miles, averaging well over...
Offshore Log: In Use Report -Atkins & Hoyle Deck Hatches
Most boatowners rarely have the option of selecting their deck hatches. When you build your own boat, however, you don't just get to make...
Special Section – AnchoringAnchor and Mooring Chains: Vinyl-Covered Chain is the Pits
Our attention was forcefully drawn to the subject of mooring chains when the chain anchoring our raft, the Foulbottom, parted in a storm, and...
Shackletons Adventure
In a couple of exciting decades surrounding World War I, the entire world was transfixed by polar expeditions.with the inexorable flow, for five months...
Bird repellants, solvent safety, GPS antennas
Florida is hard on boats from sun damage, mildew, bottom blisters and birds. I keep the ospreys from perching on my tricolor light by...
A Few Tips on Patching or Masking with Tape
Tape seems like simple thing to manage. How complicated can it get? But as webe found in multiple past tests at Practical Sailor, the...
Workbenches for Cruising Sailors
So you’ve got a locker full of tools and materials and the skills to take on anything. But what do you work on? Spill...