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Current issue highlights: One man, one woman, one J/32 feature boat; Jeanneau Arcadia review; a Bristol 30 restoration; make your own lazy-jacks; dihedral twins; and taming the main with lazy-jacks and a sailcover.
Speaking seriously: Why Boats Sink 101; the truth about GPS; anatomy of a lightning strike; Robert Perry on rudders; how to make a watermaker, Part 2; tiller for a seagoing ketch; and how to make a proper boarding ladder.
Lighter fare: when sail rules, the lovely sound of no engine; slip exits without angst; checking your batteries; noises in my head; turnbuckle locks revisited and, as always, more really great stuff!
What's New At Good Old Boat
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New back issue CDs available
Ta da! We now have years 2004 and 2005 available on back issue CDs!
If you've been around as a subscriber for a while, you know that Good Old Boat articles are timeless. If you're replacing the non-skid on your deck or repowering or building a hard dodger (or a whole lot of other projects on your boat), you'll find articles that appeared in the past specifically on your current topic of interest suddenly seem much more important than when they appeared. This is especially true if, when those articles appeared, you were focused on keeping the bugs out, replacing the water tanks, stirring another batch of epoxy, or recovering cushions.
Since the old information is still valid, we continue to make it available to readers as copies of old magazines gradually disappear. New subscribers want to read the articles they missed. Long-time subscribers want to have an easier way to store all those articles. (A small, searchable, CD with a year's worth of issues in PDF format is a lot easier to deal with than a shelf of dogeared copies.)
With the addition of the two new CDs, we now have seven back issue CDs available, starting with our premier issue in 1998 and taking you to the end of 2005. More will follow.
Good Old Boat Blog
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Periodically we will post some of our thoughts and events related to Good Old Boat magazine, or to our lives as sailors. Most recent posting - July 24, 2010.
More did-'em-ourselves videos
We hope you've discovered our growing library of short videos. In the spirit of do-it-yourself projects everywhere, we did 'em ourselves and they're about do-it-yourself projects, sailboats, and life aboard. Our newest video is about the great volunteers who helped us out at the 2009 Annapolis Boat Show. There are several more in the works.
Our new series of videos includes Dock Walks featuring special boats we find on the docks where we sail, Boat Projects with a focus on the DIY projects we do on our boats, and Cooking on a Hook with an emphasis on simple cooking in small spaces. If you have discovered video cameras and editing and want to contribute your own videos, please contact Michael Facius.
Have you seen our t-shirts?
The latest thing you'll want to know about our T-shirt collection is that it's still growing. We'll be announcing a contest soon since we're on a quest more T-shirt slogans. The slogans for our newest shirts came to us from J.R. Holm, a reader who suggested a couple of sayings for new T-shirt designs. We promptly sandbagged two of our previous designs and went with J.R.’s suggestions, proving how highly we value subscriber input!
Sailing artist Tom Payne did the magic once more, putting his paintbrush to the slogans and creating a couple of new designs we hope you’ll be proud to wear in the marina and around town.
To order these or to see the other styles in our, umm, “Tom Payne Collection of Logo Gear for the Rest of Us,” please visit our online Books and Gear page.
