We've Gone Digital!
We’re adding even more value for the sailing community by digitizing past Good Old Boat articles and making them freely available online each week. You’ll also enjoy full access to Sailrite’s comprehensive boat and sail database—making it easier than ever to plan your next sailmaking project or simply learn more about your sailboat. Visit often for fresh content, and sail smarter with Sailrite and Good Old Boat!
A 1970 Marshall Sanderling is reborn as a beloved family sailer Issue 41 : Mar/Apr 2005 We had sailed for about 20 years before putting a halt to our nautical adventures. The necessity of repowering our Pearson Triton and the prospective costs of sending two children to college had made it financially impractical. We moved...
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive . . . Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 Aviators call it an “out-and-in” or “the $100 hamburger.” It’s a day trip of only a couple hundred miles or maybe less . . . flying to the next town or even the next state for lunch...
Make a custom information manual for your boat Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 If friends or family members had to start your boat’s engine, would they know what to do? For haulout, is the lift operator confident about where to position the slings? The underwater profiles of custom-built and older, less-common boats may be a...
A short lesson on surveying the surveyors Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 You usually get a sailboat surveyed because someone, most likely an insurance or finance company, has told you to or because, as a potential buyer, you want one to establish her value. Surveys do not come cheap, $14 to $15 a foot is...
