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Comparing a classic bluewater cruiser with three rivals Issue 41 : Mar/Apr 2005 The Bob Perry-designed Tayana 37 has long been considered one of the classic bluewater cruisers in her size range, as ha...
A class that owes much to an energetic owners’ group Issue 41 : Mar/Apr 2005 The Tayana Owners’ Group (TOG) is a diverse, energetic, and passionate group of sailors of Tayana, CT, and Vancouver sailbo...
Relax or snooze in a custom-built recliner Issue 41 : Mar/Apr 2005 It was a beautiful late-winter sail. The stout westerlies following the cold front had blasted me east. I dropped and furled my sail ...
A classic performance cruiser, with the emphasis on performance Issue 41 : Mar/Apr 2005 The year was 1961 when George Cuthbertson, a mechanical engineer, and George Cassian, an aircraft designer, got ...
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive . . . Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 Aviators call it an “out-and-in” or “the $100 hamburger.” It’s a day trip of only a couple hundred miles or maybe les...
We’ve finally made the dreaded eye-splice Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 When I was a very young boy, my father told me a story about two snakes. They formed a circle, heads to tails, with each snake eating ...
Make a custom information manual for your boat Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 If friends or family members had to start your boat’s engine, would they know what to do? For haulout, is the lift operator...
How to build it and stow it conveniently Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 Years ago I was thumbing through a sailing publication and saw a photo of Larry Pardey standing on his sidedeck grasping a stowed boath...
Elegant solution avoids mast replacement Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 “Well now, this doesn’t look good.” The marine surveyor was kneeling on the deck looking at the base of the mast where it was ste...
How a naval architect shapes the boat’s bathroom Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 As any sailor knows, the term of sailing ships when men were men and the crew’s rude toilet was a hole open to the seas, right ...
There’s nothing that patience, skill, parts, and plenty of money can’t fix Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 I have three lingering images of Kalypso: first, lying idyllically for sale at the end of a private p...
You can do it yourself — if you have time and courage Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 I’m going to stay out of the argument about why boats blister. I’ve heard too many conflicting “scientific explanations” o...
After a belated refit, sailing starts in earnest Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 It has been a glorious summer, the best since 1727 they say . . . the stuff of memories, a summer to tell tales of, a summer th...
A trailerable pocket cruiser from a legendary designer Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 In the late 1960s, we owned one of the first Rhodes 22 sailboats manufactured by General Boats Corporation. We sailed our...
Treat them with care and they’ll serve you well Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 A binocular is an essential piece of boating equipment, and the selection of this item of navigational gear requires some basic ...
How to make sailors of your four-legged furry friends Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 For boatowners contemplating frequent getaways or The Big Cruise, the most emotionally fraught question is sometimes a sur...
Nothing matures a teenager like owning a boat Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 In the great outdoors of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, deep in the backwoods, I sat in the sun, surrounded by rutted trails, a spark...
Step-by-step replacement of a damaged cabin headliner Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 When the surveyor was going through our 1978 Nor’West 33, Sailor’s Joy, during the pre-purchase survey, he remarked that i...
A short lesson on surveying the surveyors Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 You usually get a sailboat surveyed because someone, most likely an insurance or finance company, has told you to or because, as a pot...
All you need to know about ropes for your boat Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 A few years ago, after carefully inspecting my running rigging, I decided it was time to replace much of it. I identified each li...
Here’s how one sailor rebeds portlights and hatches Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 The rebedding or replacement of hatch and portlight inserts, a process referred to as glazing, is a common chore on older sa...
Shedding some light on portlight replacement Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 I’ve always though kitchen duty much more pleasant with a window to look out of . . . not only for the cook, but also for the clean...
Meet the cruising couple who inspired a generation of dreamers Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 If it’s true that “marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes,” as Scottish novelist and poet...
Here’s how to find time both to varnish and to sail Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 Sometime long ago, with a pale newly sanded board scrap of some nice shape — maybe a toy sword — I took a small brush,...
A fairly rare coastal cruiser with an intriguing layout Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 A Chinese immigrant by the name of Ti Ouyang is the man responsible for the creation and success of Ouyang Boat Works of...
Tools rule in the battle of the shared spaces Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 They warn those starting marriages later in life not to move into his house or her house, but rather to start fresh with a home ne...
Making the case for a feminine pronoun Issue 43 : Jul/Aug 2005 “I wonder why people refer to boats as ‘she.’ Why not call it an ‘it,’ ” a charter guest aboard our sloop asked me one day. I shrugged an...
Dreaming of green flashes and northern lights Issue 43 : Jul/Aug 2005 Northern lights are just below the green flash on my list of rare and delightful phenomena. There may be some doubt in some circle...
Stopping that sinking feeling under the mast Issue 43 : Jul/Aug 2005 As in most sailboats its size, my 1984 O’Day 222’s mast is stepped on deck. However, unlike many of its contemporaries, my boat lac...
Fast way to make a seagoing pillow/blanket Issue 43 : Jul/Aug 2005 Whoever came up with the idea for the first quillow deserves some sort of award for ingenuity. But the name of that individual is pro...
