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...
One sun, one mirror, and you’ve got The Best Darned Lifesaver, Period Issue 40 : Jan/Feb 2005 Gather around, fellow sailors, and hear this tale about a simple little device that was revered by World W...
An expert woodworker reveals some homely truths about teak Issue 40 : Jan/Feb 2005 Separating myth from reality almost impossible with a wood as well known as teak. From its “discovery” by the Dutch i...
Good kayak, but is it a dinghy? Issue 40 : Jan/Feb 2005 Our C&C 30 didn’t come with a dinghy when we purchased her. On a hunch, we bought a 17-foot rotomolded two-person kayak that we manage...
Almost the answer but not quite Issue 40 : Jan/Feb 2005 When Magnus, our newly refitted motorsailer, needed an appropriate dinghy, I surveyed my fleet. There was a gorgeous Phil Bolger-designed Glouce...
A solid old 27-footer proves her worth in choppy Buzzards Bay Issue 40 : Jan/Feb 2005 I drew a long cool breath in the summer of 1998 when I first saw the hull of a 27-foot Cape Dory hull sitting in a...
Test your seamanship skills in tricky situations Issue 44: Sept/Oct 2005 SUN GLISTENS ON A PERFECT FRENCH POLYNESIAN SAILING day. The trade wind blows across the deep waters of the pass that cuts thro...
The answers . . . are simple and few. But many men just don’t get it Issue 40 : Jan/Feb 2005 In the beginning, God created man, and man built himself a boat. It was good. Adam looked at Eve and asked ...
A cruising crew figures one good tern deserves another Issue 40 : Jan/Feb 2005 The first light of morning trickled through the portlights of St. Pauli Girl, our old Bristol cutter, anchored in the lee...
If you’re a frustrated splicer, read this and take heart Issue 40 : Jan/Feb 2005 Almost every boat has some double-braided line aboard. In most cases, the ends of the lines are ragged and sloppy. Many...
Here’s how to keep those untamed line ends under better control Issue 40 : Jan/Feb 2005 Periodically, I conduct a cursory examination of my running rigging. I make mental notes of those lines that nee...
This line of classy pocket cruisers owes much to Clark Mills Issue 40 : Jan/Feb 2005 My first encounter with a Com-Pac yacht was in the mid-1970s. Charlie, a school friend of mine in Florida, bought o...
If you can drive, you’ll also be able to sail . . . eventually Issue 40 : Jan/Feb 2005 Revelations occur no matter where you are. If you can turn the noise level off (radios, television, conversation,...
Skunk, damp mud? Yes! Spring is in the air! Issue 41 : Mar/Apr 2005 The days are getting longer. It’s light out when I leave the house for my walk after supper, and there’s more than just a hint...
Grouching about crouching — it’s the height problem again Issue 41 : Mar/Apr 2005 Being tall may be overrated as a social asset. As a taller female, I’ve never been convinced of the advantages. First,...
“Does that thing really work?”they all ask Issue 41 : Mar/Apr 2005 While dockside, I suspect that sailors get a fair share of peepers: dockwalkers fascinated by the curiosities inherent in sailboats. ...
He found the best way to win was to build his own boats Issue 41 : Mar/Apr 2005 Florida, like California, with its eternally warm weather and friendly skies, is a natural place in which to build boats...
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive . . . Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 Aviators call it an “out-and-in” or “the $100 hamburger.” It’s a day trip of only a couple hundred miles or maybe les...
We’ve finally made the dreaded eye-splice Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 When I was a very young boy, my father told me a story about two snakes. They formed a circle, heads to tails, with each snake eating ...
Make a custom information manual for your boat Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 If friends or family members had to start your boat’s engine, would they know what to do? For haulout, is the lift operator...
After a belated refit, sailing starts in earnest Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 It has been a glorious summer, the best since 1727 they say . . . the stuff of memories, a summer to tell tales of, a summer th...
How to make sailors of your four-legged furry friends Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 For boatowners contemplating frequent getaways or The Big Cruise, the most emotionally fraught question is sometimes a sur...
Nothing matures a teenager like owning a boat Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 In the great outdoors of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, deep in the backwoods, I sat in the sun, surrounded by rutted trails, a spark...
A short lesson on surveying the surveyors Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 You usually get a sailboat surveyed because someone, most likely an insurance or finance company, has told you to or because, as a pot...
Meet the cruising couple who inspired a generation of dreamers Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 If it’s true that “marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes,” as Scottish novelist and poet...
Tools rule in the battle of the shared spaces Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 They warn those starting marriages later in life not to move into his house or her house, but rather to start fresh with a home ne...
