Issue 18: May/June 2001 It was a day of savage and ethereal beauty. We had just gone through a fast-moving storm with racing black clouds, pelting rain, and lightning. We were left powering in little ...
Issue 17 : Mar/Apr 2001 We never meant to be the poster children for “National Life Jacket Safety Week,”* but then, no poster child chooses to star in this sort of event. Jerry started it. He fell out...
Issue 27: Nov/Dec 2002 SUBCONSCIOUSLY, I HAVE BEEN DIVIDING SAILORS INTO TWO groups for as long as I can remember. These observations are true of the rest of humanity also, but sailing puts things in ...
Stanchions: Safe, salty, sturdy Issue 19 : Jul/Aug 2001 Sailor Ron Bohannon fell in love with a Phil Rhodes Chesapeake 32. As is often the case with older boats, she needed work. But he loved the line...
Give your fenders a smart new pair of socks Issue 27: Nov/Dec 2002 BOAT FENDERS ARE FUNCTIONAL. They are not meant to be fashionable. We remove them the instant we leave the dock, don’t we? And yet . ...
“Cows Week West” celebrates good old boats Issue 19 : Jul/Aug 2001 Californians have long been informally acknowledged as the nation’s trendsetters, and so it is only fitting that a full-scale celebra...
Issue 19 : Jul/Aug 2001 No one has ever mentioned the lack of text all over the cover of Good Old Boat. We hear from readers regularly about our paper stock. (Yes, really! Some say it’s too heavy and ...
Issue 20 : Sept/Oct 2001 We all have to start somewhere. Jerry and I started from the back of the fleet when it came to anchoring. A dinghy sailor most of his life, Jerry didn’t get much opportunity t...
Bristol Fashion Issue 20 : Sept/Oct 2001 Bristol Fashion. A Tartan 33. Gleaming navy topsides with red trim. She was on our list of dream boats before we bought Mystic. But she wasn’t for sale. Bristo...
It’s wise to keep a sextant aboard and to know how to use it Issue 21 : Nov/Dec 2001 Nobody will argue that celestial navigation is simple. But Ken Gebhart is prepared to argue that the basics can be ...
TV series helps builders, gets people on the water Issue 22 : Jan/Feb 2002 David Dean likes messing about in boats. He likes working with wood, building boats in particular, about as much as he likes ...
Issue 22 : Jan/Feb 2002 How did the term “moving up to a bigger boat” become so prevalent in our language? I suppose we say “moving up to a bigger house,” which might then place us in a more expensive...
*With apologies and gratitude to A.A. Milne. Issue 23 : Mar/Apr 2002 Jerry and I sat contentedly in the cockpit on one recent vacation in one of nature’s purest places: Isle Royale National Park. It w...
An ongoing do-it-yourself project Issue 23 : Mar/Apr 2002 One big do-it-yourself project.” According to Bruce and Nancy Worster, this accurately describes their marriage, raising a family, and in part...
A Puget Sound sailor sets his retirement dream in motion Issue 25 : Jul/Aug 2002 A really big boat and a really small house is Walt Pierce’s ideal retirement setup. He hasn’t exactly achieved that goa...
Issue 26 : Sept/Oct 2002 Jerry and I didn’t coin the term “affordable dream,” although we like the concept and, through Good Old Boat, we have done much to promote it. What’s so intriguing about it is...
This small bluewater cruiser fulfills a couple’s lifetime dream Issue 27: Nov/Dec 2002 JILL DELEZYNSKI DECORATED THE bows of a number of sailboats while getting a tan on trips between Los Angeles and ...
A look at the Allied Seawind owned by the do-it-yourselfers’ guru Issue 28 : Jan/Feb 2003 Robin Lee Graham may never know how many people became sailors as a result of reading his three-part series in...
Issue 29 : Mar/Apr 2003 I just dropped my foul-weather gear in a dripping pile on the cabin floor. Small rivulets run off into the bilge. An old towel will mop up the rest. Dry again, I think once mor...
Boating writer’s circuitous voyage to the Pacific Northwest Issue 29 : Mar/Apr 2003 Spend a day with John Vigor (pronounced VIGH-gor) and you’ll soon be creating Turk’s Head knots and delving into lon...
A neglected Lyle Hess classic receives royal treatment Issue 30 : May/Jun 2003 Serendipity brought a cherished cult boat into the hands of Bob and Sylvia Mann, and remarkable good fortune will bring t...
This enthusiastic couple cruises the greatest Great Lake Issue 34: Jan/Feb 2004 ALL HUSBANDS QUAKE WHEN GREETED by their wives with the words, “Sit down. We need to talk.” Six years ago, those dreaded...
Meet the sailing inventor who circumnavigated in an Alberg 30 Issue 30 : May/Jun 2003 Words fail the writer who would describe Yves Gélinas. Maverick? Free spirit? Innovator? Genius? Adventurer? Dream...
Trucking isn’t easy, but docking is worse Issue 31 : Jul/Aug 2003 Jerry named it Yeti, another name for Big Foot. It is the largest truck we can imagine driving. We’d been driving small sedans and spo...
Issue 31 : Jul/Aug 2003 The founders/editors of Good Old Boat magazine have absolutely nothing against racing. In fact, Jerry Powlas figures he’s been in more than 900 races. Nonetheless Good Old Boat...
As pretty a little sloop as ever graced a Minnesota lake Issue 31 : Jul/Aug 2003 We figure Hal Newell can probably do just about anything, and lately sailboat refits figure prominently in what Hal wan...
Cost-effective sailing vacations; let us count the ways . . . Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 Sailing and sailboats (and perhaps life in general) are all about compromises. Sometimes it would be nice to sail...
Sailing’s also sweating, swearing, swatting, and plain hard work Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 New dock neighbors have moved in next door. We share a finger pier, which means we’ll be seeing a lot of each ...
Issue 33 : Nov/Dec 2003 There are idyllic days when sailing. Many of them. We all recognize this fact, or we wouldn’t be out there with all that canvas in the wind. Those are gorgeous days when nature...
She’s just a sweet, 31-foot boat that suits the Sandifers’ plan Issue 33 : Nov/Dec 2003 Bill and Genie Sandifer say it’s the boats they’ve owned over the years that have kept their marriage stro...