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Where the climate insists, a built-in system pays dividends Issue 119: March/April 2018 Summers on the Chesapeake are hot and humid, so we thought we were in high clover when our new-to-us boat came with a portable 6,700-BTU Cruisair air conditioning (AC) unit . . . until we lived with it. It was undersized, cooled...
Two boys buy a big wooden boat with their hearts, not their heads Issue 119: March/April 2018 On a warm June evening in 1969, my friends Scott and David drove with me from the Chicago suburbs to Michigan City, Indiana, to buy Hobart, a lovely 1940s-era, 26-foot Rhodes Idler sloop that was, in retrospect, suspiciously...
. . . and the safety significance of MMSI and GPS Issue 119: March/April 2018 When we replaced the fixed-mount VHF radio on our 1986 cutter back in 2002, we noticed the new radio featured a red “distress” button on its console. The button was there because, in 1999, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) began...
The kink-free lifeline daisy chain gives wet rope a good airing Issue 120: May/June 2018 For sailors, wet rope is a fact of life. Coil and stow that wet rope after a sail, and green rope may become a fact of life. Coiled rope is a perfect environment for mildew and mold growth. The surface-area-to-volume...
