Issue 7 : Jul/Aug 1999 I didn’t start out to own a steel-hulled boat. In fact if you had asked me two weeks before I bought it if I wanted a steel boat I would probably have said, “No, I would prefer ...
Issue 7 : Jul/Aug 1999 People have asked us whether we’d run out of material to write about after a few issues and, if so, what then? I used to worry about the same kind of thing in my youth as I was ...
Issue 8 : Sept/Oct 1999 The sparfly wanders aimlessly, tracing lazy arcs in the sky as Mystic sits quietly under a curtain of gray. The slate-colored sky paints the water in metallic shades which undu...
. . . Eliminate the negative Issue 8 : Sept/Oct 1999 Sam rushed on deck to meet us as we rowed across the still starlit patch of water between our two boats. “Hey, good to see you two. When’d you get ...
When a troubled economy drove Tartan Marine under, Joe Palmer continued the customer service work as before Issue 8 : Sept/Oct 1999 Your boat’s been out of production for 20 years, and the company tha...
RVs on the water Issue 8 : Sept/Oct 1999 Three years ago we transferred our wanderlust from pavement to water. The “For Sale” sign was up on our 30-foot RV for a mere day. In the blink of an eye the m...
They named their Nicholson 35 Passport . . . indeed she was just the ticket for their journey south Issue 8 : Sept/Oct 1999 Once John and Sandy Larson had developed a dream for semi-retirement and a t...
. . . this one’s for Biddy Issue 8 : Sept/Oct 1999 Way back before Noah, when Someone was first organizing His thoughts on putting together the universe, it seems obvious He was striving for the sweet...
Ease that fear of falling: Techniques for making a trip up the stick safer Issue 8 : Sept/Oct 1999 The only sure things in life are death, taxes, and that — sooner or later — you will have to go up yo...
Issue 8 : Sept/Oct 1999 Nothing exceeds like excess. It’s not an original line, but I’ve forgotten where I first heard it. It is interesting to speculate on the origins of excess in our culture and on...
Issue 9 : Nov/Dec 1999 As you are aware, proper helm balance is a very desirable factor on a sailing yacht and can make the difference between a craft that is enjoyable to sail and one that has a helm...
Issue 9 : Nov/Dec 1999 H(“Ted”) Gozzard, designer of the Bayfields, began his own boatbuilding business when he left the Bayfield organization. His second company is North Castle Marine in Goderich, O...
Issue 9 : Nov/Dec 1999 I first saw a Bayfield early in the ’80s, on the hard, at a marina on Lake Huron’s Saginaw Bay. It was a 25, sitting next to an elderly wooden Tahiti ketch. Here was a study in ...
It bakes bread, makes hearty soups, distills water, and holds the kids’ “critters.” Who could ask for more? Issue 9 : Nov/Dec 1999 Long, long ago in another lifetime far, far away — well, 17 years ago...
Issue 9 : Nov/Dec 1999 December of 1899 was particularly vicious along the coast of Maine. Just off a promontory jutting into the sea, rose a wind-swept half-acre of bare granite named Kinery Rock, on...
Issue 9 : Nov/Dec 1999 Despite the popular notion today, fiberglass and plastic resins were not “new” technology in the mid-1950s, nor was Clinton Pearson the first person to use them to build sailboa...
Starting in a garage, cousins Clinton and Everett Pearson initiated an era in yachting history Issue 9 : Nov/Dec 1999 It’s a familiar story to sailing buffs. The Pearson cousins, Clinton and Everett, ...
Issue 9 : Nov/Dec 1999 We delayed our departure from Loon Harbor as long as we could. It is among our favorite anchoring holes along the raw and secluded Canadian north shore of Lake Superior. We went...
While the rest of the boatyard slumbers beneath a blanket of snow, he steals aboard to reminisce Issue 10 : Jan/Feb 2000 Barnegat Bay lies on the New Jersey coast between Manasquan and Atlantic City. ...
At the Wooden Boat Challenge in Georgetown, S.C., a world record falls as a hurricane approaches Issue 10 : Jan/Feb 2000 By the time the sawdust had settled beneath a banquet tent by the Sampit River ...
Controlling your environment makes you a better, safer sailor Issue 10 : Jan/Feb 2000 As a person to whom quality time and time aboard are synonymous, I often daydream of idyllic passages through trop...
No task is too difficult for these female sailors — they navigate, paint, fix the engine, and cook Issue 10 : Jan/Feb 2000 You may have seen the comic strip featuring the guy placing the ad that says,...
What to do with used boat gear; where to find “good old stuff” Issue 10 : Jan/Feb 2000 Bingham & Associates Ray Bingham says being the match-maker for sailors and used gear is “a lifestyle.” He sp...
If you’re looking for good old parts for your good old boat, good old vendor Marine Exchange might be able to help Issue 10 : Jan/Feb 2000 To a sailor who likes to tinker about on his boat, and who ta...
60 percent Git-Rot and 40 percent mahogany, this 1930s daysailer never stopped leaking Issue 10 : Jan/Feb 2000 When my husband was a sophomore in high school, he and his friend Mike bought an old boat...
Use a riding sail to steady your boat at anchor Issue 10 : Jan/Feb 2000 You’re all settled in for the night in that well-protected cove, when the wind picks up. What had been a nice quiet anchorage is...
C&C Redwing plays it both ways Issue 10 : Jan/Feb 2000 Whether you’re a racer or a cruiser or a racer/cruiser (like Bill and Nancy Leonard in the previous article on Pages 4-7), the C&C Redwin...
Issue 10 : Jan/Feb 2000 In a recent conversation, a Good Old Boat reader recited the “one thing leads to another” litany. You know the drill. “I took this apart and found that . . . which required tha...
Issue 11 : Mar/Apr 2000 Time flies. Whoever thought we’d become “good old boaters”? It’s been just 20 years since we picked the site to dock our newly purchased 21-footer. Ten years ago we bought our ...
Issue 11 : Mar/Apr 2000 People are exposed to a lot of “media” these days. More so than at any other time in our history. There is so much material being pushed at us that it is appropriate to ask, “W...
