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Replacing tired or truant screens in old opening ports Issue 107 : Mar/Apr 2016 Your boat may be fortunate enough to have been built with quality cast-aluminum or, even better, cast-bronze opening ports. The nicest ports have heavy safety glass lenses that stay clear and, short of needing new gaskets from time to time, are...
Fatigue, false steps, and a child adrift Issue 107 : Mar/Apr 2016 After four days of the most uncomfortable seas in our entire world circumnavigation, we arrived at the island of Great Inagua, Bahamas, in half a gale of renewed trade wind. It was May 1986. Once we’d anchored in company with our American buddy...
Ways to dispose of expired pyrotechnics Issue 108: May/June 2016 Your flare caddy was overflowing with mostly expired flares. You bought a bigger one. Now it, too, is almost filled with expired flares. If you’re thinking it’s time to find a way to responsibly dispose of those old expired flares, you’re in good company. Many...
How sailboats stand up to the wind Issue 108: May/June 2016 In a letter to Mail Buoy in the September 2015 issue of Good Old Boat, Rich Morrow of Herring Cove, Nova Scotia, called me to task for putting too much emphasis on ballast/displacement ratio, and not accounting enough for beam in stability comparisons between...
