Living with an old motorsailer calls for patience and special skills Issue 37 : Jul/Aug 2004 Motorsailers are a vanishing breed. Every year one or more manufacturers drops from the field. If not in ac...
Designer Ted Brewer remembers builder Jerry Koch with fondness Issue 37 : Jul/Aug 2004 In early 1982 I was approached by Jerry Koch, who asked me to come up with a unique small boat design unlike anyt...
How a circumnavigator overcame his fear of sailing Issue 37 : Jul/Aug 2004 Whether outfitting for an extended cruise or a sail on a protected bay, there is no piece of gear that can take the place of ...
English boatbuilders boast a 220-year history of doing things right Issue 37 : Jul/Aug 2004 One of the oldest and most enduring boatbuilders in the world is the English company Camper & Nicholsons...
How to eat well despite a lack of space and equipment Issue 37 : Jul/Aug 2004 Eating well is an integral part of boat safety. A hungry crew is more prone to seasickness, lethargy, and lower morale. An...
Reducing the black art of design to light weight and long waterline Issue 37 : Jul/Aug 2004 Bill Lee, who introduced ultralights into the sailboat race circuit in the 1970s, calls designing racing sai...
Sailorly advice for the fight against the evils of alcohol Issue 44: Sept/Oct 2005 Advice to the new owner of a boat with a Princess stove: THE VALVE-LIKE THINGIE ON THE TOP of the stove is where you ...
Dave Martin, outstanding seaman, shares his experience with readers Issue 37 : Jul/Aug 2004 Our newest contributing editor, Dave Martin, was a good old boater long before the term was invented. His af...
A tinge of fear heightens autumn’s sensations of delight Issue 38 : Sept/Oct 2004 Marjorie and I rowed out to the boat around noon, just the two of us and the dog. The last day of September was magnif...
A tale of human fallibility and 500-hour alternator brackets Issue 38 : Sept/Oct 2004 The brackets connecting the bottom of the alternator to our engine failed in benign conditions miles from the near...
Gadgets you can make and use to back up your GPS Issue 38 : Sept/Oct 2004 Here are three navigation aids you can use when your GPS isn’t working or to reinforce old time-tested methods of navigating. ...
A sailor’s vivid impressions of Pacific sea, sky, and wind Issue 38 : Sept/Oct 2004 My friend Tom originally met Steve at one of the yachtsmen’s hangouts he frequented. There he made arrangement...
Are you a forgetful trailersailor? Don’t fret. Here’s the list to end all checklists Issue 38 : Sept/Oct 2004 I pride myself in mentally warehousing innumerable, disjointed facts and recalling them at...
Memories are ignited in the firewood Issue 38 : Sept/Oct 2004 The woodpile. Sorting out the heap of driftwood harvested in haste after the high tides and high windsof the equinox, now there is time fo...
This boat had been “the other woman” at least once before Issue 38 : Sept/Oct 2004 When we first made acquaintance she was in Mobile, Alabama, and I was almost 1,000 miles away in Washington, D.C. I h...
Simple upgrades turn a weekender into a world cruiser Issue 38 : Sept/Oct 2004 The sails are stowed, dinner is cooking, and a day of sailing has taken the edge off a hectic workweek. The heavens turn ...
Where to find that affordable ocean voyager you long for Issue 38 : Sept/Oct 2004 There are three sources of moderately priced cruising yachts:ex-racing boats, ex-charter boats, and secondhand cruisin...
Freedom Yachts founder believes something’s amiss in the sailing world Issue 38 : Sept/Oct 2004 Garry Hoyt has a passion for sailing, there’s no doubt. At Newport Rhode Island’s Ida Lewis Yacht Club, ...
The Coast Guard asks boaters to be careful observers Issue 44: Sept/Oct 2005 ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, America was attacked from the air. Many terrorism experts feel it is only a matter of time before an...
There’s no need to change our snug convertible just yet Issue 38 : Sept/Oct 2004 Not long ago I read in one of the many books about living aboard that we should want to own a boat with separate eating...
Chance meeting reawakens feelings of gratitude and enthusiasm Issue 39 : Nov/Dec 2004 Another exuberant gust shook the mast, rattling the rigging, and dragging my attention from the novel on my lap. G...
Backyard boatyard project calls for a “small person” Issue 39 : Nov/Dec 2004 Not since my early adolescence, when I last looked back with regret on the petite section of the department store, have I s...
They couldn’t spare enough time, so they went voyaging in installments Issue 39 : Nov/Dec 2004 So you can’t take off for a year, or three, or 10. Most of us can’t. But you would still like to go...
Solo voyager fits out a mini-lifeboat from a Fatty Knees dinghy Issue 39 : Nov/Dec 2004 I am a sailor who believes we have no business sailing offshore for recreational purposes if we do not make ours...
Alex Tilley and the boat that begat the wonderous Tilley hat Issue 39 : Nov/Dec 2004 Her name was Karmananda. Keith Storey, now commodore of the Alexandra Yacht Club in Toronto, remembers her vividly....
Two sailors with One Love experience a magic moment Issue 39 : Nov/Dec 2004 The temperature hovered below 60, and that was in the sun. My wife cast off the bow lines as we pulled away from the slip fo...
Learn the hard-won secrets of a frugal do-it-yourselfer Issue 44: Sept/Oct 2005 YOU MAKE LISTS OF THINGS YOU WANT to repair or upgrade on your project boat. But when you visit your local chandlery, re...
Sometimes you get lucky. But not this time Issue 39 : Nov/Dec 2004 At some point in the restoration of our (new to us) old C&C Mega 30 — in fact not too long after I started — I knew I would have ...
Cruisers are just normal people who have wonderful adventures Issue 40 : Jan/Feb 2005 Is our lifestyle suited to cruising? Or is cruising suited to our lifestyle? Which inspires the other? We haven’t ...
Whether you use it or not, you’ll be judged by your speed Issue 40 : Jan/Feb 2005 A few years ago, I set out to write a “trilogy of editorials” dealing with time, speed, and distance. The time editori...
