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Simple rules ensure safety and reliability Issue 99 : Nov/Dec 2014 Sooner or later, if you own your boat any length of time, you will have to deal with replacing or adding a DC electrical circuit. Perhaps you’re upgrading an older piece of gear and the wiring is corroded or inadequate. Maybe you’re adding new...
But we are united under one: sailor Issue 99 : Nov/Dec 2014 I’ve grown weary of the labels that divide us: deniers, alarmists, extremists, centrists, greens, tree-huggers, libertarians, progressives, socialists, and communists. Also One-Percenters, Occupy Wall Streeters, Tea Partiers, Baby Boomers, Millennials, Gen Xers, Gen Yers, workers, taxpayers, and welfare takers. I won’t even start...
When solo, planning is the key to smooth sailing Issue 100: Jan/Feb 2015 This is the third in Karen Sullivan’s series of articles about prepping a boat and sailor for singlehanding. In the March and May 2015 issues she’ll describe anchoring techniques. “To reef a course . . . you must clew it up as...
Ahoy! Who goes these? Issue 100: Jan/Feb 2015 AIS, the Automatic Identification System, allows vessels to “see” and identify each other (and for shore stations to “see” vessels). It was developed as a collision-avoidance tool, and in 2002 was made compulsory for all passenger ships, cargo ships of 500 tons or more not engaged in...
