Issue 26 : Sept/Oct 2002 It was late afternoon on a bleak November day as I walked through the small shipyard on Long Island Sound, a place where boats too old to sail were kept for scrap and spare pa...
Cruising Baja Part 2: Hot tips for cool cruising in the Sea of Cortez Issue 26 : Sept/Oct 2002 The second of two parts dealing with preparing yourself and your boat for tropical cruising south of the ...
After 10 years of cruising, a Yankee family still lives its dream Issue 26 : Sept/Oct 2002 Our dream to live the cruising lifestyle started, oddly enough, high in the Rocky Mountains. We were a young ...
A single-handed pioneer of Folkboats and self-steering Issue 26 : Sept/Oct 2002 The folkboat was designed as a family racer/cruiser, but over the years it has earned an extraordinary reputation for se...
Married sailor luckily survives midlife love affair Issue 26 : Sept/Oct 2002 I suppose I would have to describe it as a midlife crisis. I have no other name for a situation in which an otherwise sane ...
A tale of two designers, three builders, and the publicly held company that crossed the Canadian border to compete with America’s best racers and builders — and won. Issue 26 : Sept/Oct 2002 C&C Y...
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...
Issue 28 : Jan/Feb 2003 We’d let the delivery wait too long. Doing a story in warm, sunny South Carolina made it seem like we had all the time in the world, but on the great prairie autumn was l...
A useful technique for recovering a fancy hat — or a crewmember overboard Issue 28 : Jan/Feb 2003 In my local waters I cannot remember the last time I saw a yacht hove to. Conversation with sailors co...
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 ...
Wanderlust takes over after years of neglect Issue 28 : Jan/Feb 2003 She sat on her trailer for so long that people derisively changed her name from the Monte J to the Monument J. A 28-foot S2 8.5 who...
More mariners are becoming ancient on their boats Issue 28 : Jan/Feb 2003 Not only are more and more people sailing off into the sunset these days, but many are sailing off in their sunset years. Vern...
A close look at a modern practitioner of a very old trade Issue 28 : Jan/Feb 2003 His voice had an easy, reassuring, and ageless quality about it. Brion Toss was calling back to clarify what work we w...
Two famous boatbuilding names — and a line of classy bluewater voyagers Issue 28 : Jan/Feb 2003 Hallberg-Rassy has the longest-standing and strongest North American presence of any Swedish boatbuilder...
Driven mad by noisy halyards, a sailor plans his revenge Issue 34: Jan/Feb 2004 I’M BAD. I ADMIT IT. I’VE BRAZENLY JUMPED aboard other people’s boats without even asking “permission to come aboard” an...
Boating actually means working on boats — and loving it Issue 29 : Mar/Apr 2003 In a half-century of being thrilled by boats and boating in myriad facets, from racing Naples Sabots in Southern Califor...
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...
Loki’s big day Issue 29 : Mar/Apr 2003 We had survived the savage sea! The day before, we’d sailed across Georgia Strait for the first time, and we were feeling pretty feisty. We should have kno...
Some sailors need a house just as much as they need a boat Issue 34: Jan/Feb 2004 OVER TIME I HAVE COME TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE MOST CRITICAL item of cruising equipment for us is a house. “E-e-e-k!” sa...
A short but joyful respite from the long, frustrating idleness Issue 29 : Mar/Apr 2003 Breaking out of the low gray winter clouds for the first time in days, the sun illuminates only brown grass and l...
A little attention takes your trailer a long way Issue 29 : Mar/Apr 2003 One of the biggest advantages of trailersailing is that you are not limited to one sailing area in a single sailing season; you...
Issue 29 : Mar/Apr 2003 It was not all America’s Cup and 5.5-Meter yachts in my years at Luders, as the yard still had its regular work maintaining and repairing clients’ boats, and I was kept b...
Ten lessons one woman singlehander learned during 20 years of offshore cruising Issue 29 : Mar/Apr 2003 A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that having successfully surmounted one wave...
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...
This famous builder of mahogany runabouts and cabin cruisers also built fiberglass sailboats Issue 29 : Mar/Apr 2003 Tell someone your sailboat is a Chris-Craft and the usual response is, “Chris-Craft...
Issue 34: Jan/Feb 2004 I REMEMBER EXACTLY WHEN IT ALL started. I was standing on a dock in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, looking at a lonely sailboat. A light breeze tapped the halyards against the mast and g...
Issue 29 : Mar/Apr 2003 The Slate Islands are a place of beginnings. The concept for Good Old Boat magazine was born there. Five years later, we were back looking for more inspiration. Once the hooks ...
A boating author falls in love with “an exceedingly odd boat” Issue 34: Jan/ Feb 2004 PUBLISHERS ARE PUPPETEERS. Writers are marionettes. On a summer day in 2001, I had a call from Doug Gibson, of McC...
One splash, and “them” turns into “us” Issue 30 : May/Jun 2003 Today, we crossed over. We are no longer one of “them,” and now are part of the larger “us.” The “us” that have more fun because our boat...
An interview with the first U.S. woman to sail solo around the world Issue 34: Jan/Feb 2004 WHEN KAREN THORNDIKE SAILED into Hobart, Tasmania, in the late 1990s she was greeted as a hero. She’d just c...
