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A suspended zippered bag relieves crowded cockpit locker Issue 120: May/June 2018 Prepping Sapphire, our Tartan 3700, for a cruise from Lake Ontario to the Bahamas forced us to review our stowage options. The rat’s nest of tangled shorepower cables, docklines, anchor rodes, siphon hoses, water hoses, and fender boards in the cockpit locker cried...
Keeping up an older boat pays back in family time, not dollars Issue 120: May/June 2018 What is the point of all the effort and expense I put into owning a good old boat? I often find myself asking this question, usually after I crack a knuckle breaking loose some frozen fitting, or when I’m...
Those nightmare threads that become unthreadable can be avoided Issue 122: Sept/Oct 2018 Sailing is all about feel. And sometimes it’s through feel we get the first hint that things are about to go all pear-shaped . . . that funny feeling when the helm goes light because the rudder is ventilating and a knockdown...
Notes for creating harmony on board Issue 123: Nov/Dec 2018 On a torturous August crossing of Lake Superior from Isle Royale to Grand Marais, the wind was either light and on the nose or roaring up randomly. Steep and confused swells shoved Hola, our Moody 376, from every direction. Drop after icy-cold drop of rain...
