My advice is to buy yourself a boat you can afford, lavish her with the best in essential equipment, and cast off your lines Issue 1 : June 1998 I love sailing for its simplicity. Wrap the breeze with...
We’ve come a long way, baby, but our boats may be wired for yesterday Issue 5 : Mar/Apr 1999 The shorepower hookup on my first sailboat was a mechanic’s droplight and an outdoor extension cord — uncom...
What you need to know before removing the old engine Issue 9 : Nov/Dec 1999 This is first of a two-part series by well-known boating author Don Casey. Here he tells exactly how he extracted an Albin d...
Part 2: Getting it to fit Issue 10 : Jan/Feb 2000 In the November 1999 issue, well-known marine author Don Casey described how to remove the old engine from your good old boat. Now it’s time for the f...
Practical tips for a brilliant finish from the author of This Old Boat Issue 22 : Jan/Feb 2002 Old boats, like old boat owners, weather on their surfaces. For the boat, at least, a well-applied coat o...
Follow these instructions to give your deck a sparkling new life Issue 23 : Mar/Apr 2002 The very first day a new boat is rolled out of the shop, the sun (or rain, or sleet, or hail, or hobnailed boot...
Combining character with space and elegant comfort Issue 40 : Jan/Feb 2005 We first saw Zephyr in Sapodilla Bay in the Turks and Caicos, noting her size more than her appearance. My wife, Olga, and I ...
Spray away and be the envy of the anchorage Issue 41 : Mar/Apr 2005 At the bow of our boat is a silver-dollar sized fitting with a screw-on cap that evokes envy from fellow sailors almost every time w...
Fiberglass boats begin their next half decade Issue 50 : Sept/Oct 2006 This year marks the 50th anniversary of the birth of the type of boats featured in this magazine. It was 1956 when Aeromarine, né...
An uplifting way to cure pesky deck leaks Issue 65 : Mar/Apr 2009 All the water that comes aboard our boat, whether from sea or sky, is supposed to drain off through scuppers in the sidedecks. Unfortu...
Don’t bet your life on questionable lifelines Issue 69 : Nov/Dec 2009 The following is an excerpt from the second edition of Don Casey’s This Old Boat, published in April of this year by International...
The Brother was big, but the Necchi fit the niche Issue 75 : Nov/Dec 2010 This tale begins with the collapsing real estate market. For 7 years, our few shoreside possessions had been residing in a ren...
The answer is to baffle it Issue 85 : Jul/Aug 2012 Everyone else on the shopping bus was bleary-eyed and commiserating about how many times during the night they had gotten up to close hatches. It had...
It’s easy to lose sight of what it means Issue 91 : Jul/Aug 2013 We all know what a boat is and we can probably arrive at some definition of “old” without too much difficulty, but what exactly puts th...
Sporty covers for cherished Sport-a-Seats Issue 95 : Mar/Apr 2014 In early 2006, this magazine published a photo of the founding editor taking her morning leisure, her feet up and her body reclined in...
World-girdling pioneers inspired generations of sailors with their writing Issue 121: July/Aug 2018 I want to tell a story about Bernard Moitessier. It is not the famous one about him crossing his out...