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A Stimson shed is the ideal cover-up for a project boat Issue 86: Sept/Oct 2012 Just about everyone who has ever owned an old boat for any length of time has had to face a frightening word: refit. This is often the culmination of years of deferred maintenance and poorly thought out “upgrades” that inevitably...
A secondhand book illustrates a sea change in onboard roles Issue 87 : Nov/Dec 2012 Boats and books do the same thing: they transport you to distant places and, if their builders have knocked together craft that are good and true, to another time as well. Just such a craft found itself hard aground on...
Car projects and boat projects don’t even compare Issue 87 : Nov/Dec 2012 When my fiancée, Jennifer, and I returned from our 11-month cruise from New Hampshire to the Bahamas aboard our 36-foot sloop, Sheliak, we were excited to be stationary for more than a few days or so and ready to embrace our new...
A good old springline suffices on a good old boat Issue 87 : Nov/Dec 2012 I recently came across a new Jeanneau with the 360 Docking system. A drive leg that rotates through 360 degrees, coupled with a bow thruster, allows the operator to maneuver the boat in virtually any direction, including to parallel park,...
