Issue 1 : June 1998 Not long ago I rifled through a rack of anniversary cards looking for the perfect sentiment for my sailor. In doing so, I noticed a couple of cards which made the point that we don...
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...
Issue 2 : Sept/Oct 1998 It was Thursday night again, and lightning was cracking all along the shore of the lake — again. The problem with sailboat races is they get scheduled well in advance. Crews we...
Issue 2 : Sept/Oct 1998 We learned to sail on Puget Sound. Like so many other people who live and cruise the Pacific Northwest, we were happy to be on our summer cruise in August … it is the bes...
Why Jim and Connie Grant created the “sailshop on the prairie” Issue 2 : Sept/Oct 1998 It was life’s haphazard events — and not a grand master plan — which have enabled a couple of sailors to be succe...
Sailmaking is not a “voodoo art,” as others would have you believe Issue 2 : Sept/Oct 1998 One theme runs through the literature, the conversations, and the atmosphere at Sailrite — sailmaking is not ...
What to look for when buying your Dream Boat Issue 2 : Sept/Oct 1998 In the nautical lexicon, it seems these three words — good old boats — always go together. Some of the most aesthetically pleasing ...
Issue 2 : Sept/Oct 1998 As a photographer, I am interested in capturing the aesthetic and practical images that greet and nurture the cruising mariner. Especially moving to this first mate are the twi...
What Dan really wanted was an Alberg. With his Ericson 35, he believes he got one Issue 2 : Sept/Oct 1998 When he saw the Ericson 35 that would later be christened the Catherine L, Dan Haupert believe...
Winters sailing in the Caribbean. Summers “cooling it” in rural Wisconsin. Who could ask for anything more? Issue 2 : Sept/Oct 1998 Seasonal cruisers Dan and Cathy Haupert and their daughter Mara have...
Still sailing with Larry after all these years, Lin Pardey reviews the rules of their onboard communication Issue 2 : Sept/Oct 1998 I guess we could sense trouble even before it started. The 35-foot s...
Good Old Boat magazine receives reviews from the toughest critics: you, the readers Issue 2 : Sept/Oct 1998 The initial feedback was overwhelming. “We love your concept!” you told us in letters, email...
Issue 3 : Nov/Dec 1998 My refrain in recent months has been the theme from Barbra Streisand’s song “Secondhand Rose:” “I never had a thing that ain’t been used.” In the tradition of Secondhand Rose, I...
Reef Early and Often Issue 3 : Nov/Dec 1998 For too many years, sailing, for us, meant not only doing it, doing all of it, but overdoing all of it. We virile males pushed and horsed vessel, crew, gues...
… and not too far from home Issue 3 : Nov/Dec 1998 Ken and Pat O’Driscoll have lived abroad, seen the sights, sampled the foods, and tasted the wine in faraway places. So now, as they adjust to ...
Consider your tax breaks Issue 3 : Nov/Dec 1998 Our lives are rich with opposing forces, dilemmas we continually face and cope with. One of the most onerous examples is the need to earn wages and pay ...
Prioritize your upgrades Issue 3 : Nov/Dec 1998 At Good Old Boat, we recently received an email letter asking us to list some good old boats and put a price on what it should cost to upgrade them. Whi...
What about insurance? Issue 3 : Nov/Dec 1998 Picture a scene from a really bad nightmare. You’re on the maiden voyage of the newly restored nautical fantasy you’ve just spent three years sweating, spe...
When you need financing … Issue 3 : Nov/Dec 1998 Any discussion of marine financing can be as nebulous as a discussion of which is the best boat. We all know no one boat can be best for all sail...
Issue 3 : Nov/Dec 1998 Gently used, previously owned … call good old boats what you will. When we’re in the market to buy one of these used gems, there are a couple of hurdles to jump simply bec...
Issue 3 : Nov/Dec 1998 In his home office in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains, Edward (“Ted”) Brewer mops his brow and shoves back his stool. He is tall and solid. His hair is dark and his sense...
Years of salty experience alone don’t make the sailor; it takes competence and safe practices Issue 3 : Nov/Dec 1998 The term seamanship conjures up mental images of a professional sea captain roundin...
Issue 4 : Jan/Feb 1999 It was a small victory. The first thing after breakfast I left the small bay where I’d been anchored. Winds were as predicted: from the southwest. A high to the east and a low t...
Issue 4 : Jan/Feb 1999 Sailor and writer Webb Chiles is credited with saying something to the effect that when the engine in his boat died he was set free — no maintenance chores, no need to get fuel,...
Builder of the Seawind and other legends Issue 4 : Jan/Feb 1999 The seed for the Allied Boat Company was planted in February of 1960 when Annapolis naval architect Thomas Gillmer designed a 30-foot ke...
Don Moyer didn’t start out to become the Atomic 4 guru, he just loved “messing about with engines,” and an Atomic 4 was the engine he had … the rest, as they say, is history Issue 4 : Jan/Feb 19...
Reading the story told by an engine he is dismantling is a source of endless curiosity for Don Moyer … a man who obviously enjoys the work he does Issue 4 : Jan/Feb 1999 I like old, quirky thing...
Issue 4 : Jan/Feb 1999 Ben Stavis is the kind of person who turns good ideas into reality. In fact, he turns good ideas into really good ideas. Ownership of a 41-foot Rhodes Reliant led to the develop...
You must be joking! Would anyone willingly live aboard in the winter … in CANADA? Well, yes, it turns out many do year after year … by choice. Meet two individuals who live aboard near Tor...
Issue 4 : Jan/Feb 1999 Last summer, I sold my aging 12-foot skiff to a farmer who had recently moved from the Pittsburgh area to Maine. When he answered my classified ad, he said he intended to use th...
