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This unique paint-stripping material won’t rip off your gelcoat Issue 29 : Mar/Apr 2003 Chances are your boat has many years’ worth of paint on the bottom. Removing the paint buildup without ruining the substrate — wood, fiberglass gelcoat, aluminum, or steel — is a vexing problem. For years, one method has been sandblasting. All...
Boating actually means working on boats — and loving it Issue 29 : Mar/Apr 2003 In a half-century of being thrilled by boats and boating in myriad facets, from racing Naples Sabots in Southern California to float-fishing the Susquehanna, I have had many very different boats on many different waters. Yet the single feature of...
A little attention takes your trailer a long way Issue 29 : Mar/Apr 2003 One of the biggest advantages of trailersailing is that you are not limited to one sailing area in a single sailing season; you can experience a cornucopia of sailing destinations, thanks to our extensive highway system. While much attention is spent...
Ten lessons one woman singlehander learned during 20 years of offshore cruising Issue 29 : Mar/Apr 2003 A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that having successfully surmounted one wave, you discover that there is another behind it.” When he made that observation in The Open Boat, Stephen Crane meant to express...
