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Navigation catches up with science fiction Issue 66 : May/Jun 2009 A dream is coming true far faster than I ever would have imagined. It’s foggy, and I’m anchored in Gambier Island’s Halkett Bay on the coast of British Columbia in soup so thick I’m unable to even make out the shoreline. For all I...
The rise and fall of a famous nautical cover girl Issue 66 : May/Jun 2009 Some consider it absurd to anthropomorphize inanimate objects, but those of us who mess about in boats know differently. After all, we give our boats names and call them “she.” Very few other objects are thought of this way, perhaps...
The equipment you hope you never have to use Issue 67: July/Aug 2009 Among the most important pieces of equipment on board our boats are some we’ve spent good money for but hope we never have to use. Fire extinguishers are one example and the ditch bag is another. If your boat is foundering and...
Don’t bet your life on questionable lifelines Issue 69 : Nov/Dec 2009 The following is an excerpt from the second edition of Don Casey’s This Old Boat, published in April of this year by International Marine. Most old boats have been delivered with lifelines rigged with coated wire. Coated wire is an astonishingly bad idea....
