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Nobody likes damp gear. A DIY dryer solves the problem. Issue 144: May/June 2022 I sail year-round, and I can endure as much heat and cold as my passions demand. But whether it is summer or winter, I ...
Lobster pot lines aren’t the only things to avoid while cruising Maine’s coast. Issue 144: May/June 2022 It had been a gorgeous Maine sailing day up from Biddeford Pool across the wide mouth of Portla...
For owners of older sailboats, the insurance market is getting complicated. Issue 144: May/June 2022 David Sharp, who’d sailed his 1969 Tartan 34C, Pegasus, for many years out of Newport, Rhode Island...
…and Two More Quintessential CCA Rule Designs Issue 144: May/June 2022 Bruce King’s Ericson 41 represents a very advanced design concept for 1968, but also a final design type that had evolved over th...
Issue 143: March/April 2022 OK, so this is a test. I am kneeling—no, really, I’m in what amounts to a contorted version of yoga’s “child’s pose”—facing aft in the rather narrow passage between the mai...
A Vintage Performer for Offshore or Coastal Sailing Issue 144: May/June 2022 After a lifetime of sailing dinghies and family boats, Scott Owens began exploring the concept of supplementing his retirem...
Issue 144: May/June 2022 Holding an inflatable globe, I point out the equator and describe that at zero degrees latitude, it divides the earth into northern and southern hemispheres. Next, the prime m...
Maybe a good small boat and a quiet lake are all you really need. Issue 145: July/Aug 2022 One sunny Saturday afternoon found me trailering my O’Day 192 to a nearby lake for an afternoon sail and an o...
Issue 145: July/Aug 2022 Taking the Nip Out of Flies Sailors who assume mosquitoes are the pastime’s main insect issue clearly haven’t experienced biting flies. Mosquitoes primarily come out at night,...
After an exhaustive six-month refit, a forlorn Blue Jay flies again. Issue 145: July/Aug 2022 When I first saw her, leaves swam in 6 inches of dirty water in her cockpit, and the trailer had a flat ti...
A serendipitous turn brings a small sailboat full circle. Issue 145: July/Aug 2022 “I owe Kelley a letter. I wonder how Doug and Laura are doing? I need to call Mom and Dad. I should find a new dentis...
Installing GFCI outlets is an easy way to make your shorepower system safer. Issue 145: July/Aug 2022 Ah, shorepower. Love it or hate it, it’s important, especially if you are a liveaboard. In a cold ...
After a brisk autumn catboat sail, a catnap invokes memories. Issue 146: Sept/Oct 2022 The sail luffs as I round up into the wind, our mooring ball dead ahead. I stretch over the foredeck for the line...
Issue 146: Sept/Oct 2022 Protect Your Pate Thinning hair is a bummer for anybody, but for sailors especially it has major downsides, among them sunburn, scalp cuts, bumps, and bruises. There is just n...
A new headliner provides a big makeover for a 44-year-old racer/cruiser. Issue 146: Sept/Oct 2022 When Doug Peterson designed the Peterson 34 based off his innovative one-tonner Ganbare, he reportedly...
The first launch of a Catalina 22 after bottom painting didn’t go as planned. Issue 146: Sept/Oct 2022 I bought my first boat, a well-used 1981 Catalina 22, after moving from Alaska to the East Coast....
An old, leaky hatch gets a makeover to stop the drips and add some special teak. Issue 146: Sept/Oct 2022 The original forward hatch on Calypso, the 1976 Bristol Channel Cutter that my husband, Jeremy...
A small-craft sailor finds a second chance with the perfect boat that got away. Issue 145: July/Aug 2022 Most of us have been there—fallen for an early love who for one reason or another became the on...
Trailer-sailing depends on finding a good launch ramp. Issue 145: July/Aug 2022 One advantage of owning a trailerable boat is being able to explore distant and unfamiliar waters on a tight timeline an...
The boat was small, but the crush was huge. Issue 145: July/Aug 2022 At the age when girls often dream of riding horses, I was falling in love with a sleek, white, fiberglass hull. And though I’ve com...
When the toilet pump handle broke, ideas began to flow. Issue 145: July/Aug 2022 My father once offered me a sage piece of advice: Never get run over by the same trolley car twice. So, when the handle...
During a seven-day rally, the Salish 100 celebrates the vivacity of small boats. Issue 145: July/Aug 2022 Usually, I’m better prepared. Self-recrimination rarely does any good, but as I fumbled to stu...
Here’s a cook’s tour of seaworthy recipes suitable for a good old boat’s chef. Issue 146: Sept/Oct 2022 Pity the poor cook. Think of the limited space for a galley on most good old b...
Through a long friendship of sailing and writing, a particular boat weaves a steady thread. Issue 146: Sept/Oct 2022 I wasn’t in the market for a sailboat. I already had one, a Pearson Ensign, to be e...
When life gives long-held racing plans lemons, you make cruising lemonade. Issue 146: Sept/Oct 2022 In late 2017, I decided that it would be really neat to enter the Marion-Bermuda Race and navigate m...
New to sailing, a young couple is making the adventure happen one step at a time. Issue 146: Sept/Oct 2022 In November 2020, Nathan and Kirra Davison-Lamb were aboard their newly acquired Cape Dory 31...
An afternoon raft-up ends in disaster when the weather turns fierce. Issue 146: Sept/Oct 2022 It was the first day of “The Voyage to the End of the World”—the North Flathead Yacht Club’s 13th annual e...
Repurposing a 12-volt car cooler transforms an icebox into an inexpensive DIY fridge. Issue 145: July/Aug 2022 Our boat Allamanda, a 1984 Alberg 29, has an icebox for keeping food. While this is a fai...
After thousands of ocean miles, a Nor’Sea 27 finds more waters to explore via highway. Issue 145: July/Aug 2022 The burgundy-colored jug, bearing the logo of a winery somewhere on France’s Canal du Mi...
…and Two More British-Bred Catamarans Issue 145: July/Aug 2022 Catamarans have much to offer the cruising sailor, not least of which are increased cockpit and saloon area and relatively flat sailing. ...
