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...
… 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 ...
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 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...
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...
Issue 4 : Jan/Feb 1999 In 1978 I was overcome with the desire to have a new good old boat built. A boat that would sail gently around the world and would take, within reason, whatever the furies would...
Issue 4 : Jan/Feb 1999 In years gone by I’d thought about building a boat. It had been a near-lifetime dream. In my Navy days I spent many an hour looking at the plans published in Rudder and reading ...
My thanks to those who showed other women the way … Issue 4 : Jan/Feb 1999 Wanda, where are you now? A counselor at Minnesota’s Camp Birchwood, you taught me the rudiments of sailing years ago. ...
Issue 5 : Mar/Apr 1999 Second to sailing, bike riding is my favorite recreational activity. I’ll give cross-country skiing a distant third since I’m so bad at it. In recent years we’ve seldom had enou...
Issue 5 : Mar/Apr 1999 I cannot pinpoint the exact moment Ken and I first conceived of The Dream as a real option for us. I believe it evolved as we shifted our focus in life from the myriad activitie...
Ken and Cathy McIntire had more conservative plans for the future until their Baba 30, Kahlua, came into their lives. Now liveaboard cruising has risen to the top of the list Issue 5 : Mar/Apr 1999 Ke...
Issue 5 : Mar/Apr 1999 Ah, sailing! A time for relaxation: no alarm clocks, phones, or deadlines to meet. That’s the perspective of dreamers, perhaps, but it’s not quite the way we’ve experienced our ...
Behold the next generation of sailors Issue 5 : Mar/Apr 1999 Spring is a time to contemplate beginnings. Sailors in the higher latitudes throw off tarps and start preparations for another season. Some...
Issue 6 : May/Jun 1999 I had just spent the better part of a week getting to Harbor Island, north of Drummond, Mich. I dropped anchor about three hours ago in an almost totally enclosed bay, secured t...
A quick history Issue 6 : May/Jun 1999 The seaworthy forebears to Lyle Hess’ designs are the legendary working boats of Great Britain’s western approaches, the Falmouth Quay Punt, the Bristol Channel ...
Issue 6 : May/Jun 1999 Even though he expresses it differently, John Hegberg shares the passion that drives Greg Jones and his charter/restoration business, Classic Yachts of Door County. John has set...
Issue 6 : May/Jun 1999 The partnership materialized after three beer-budget boaters — Bill, Bob, and Ann — decided to purchase a yacht. One summer day Bill called Ann up. “Hey, let’s go look at a Gram...
John Smith and Pat Tengel lavish love on Pocahontas, their 1965 Pearson Commander Issue 6 : May/Jun 1999 Not many cruising couples today would take a 26-foot “bare bones” sailboat on a grueling, 1,200...
Issue 6 : May/Jun 1999 A popular national sailing magazine recently published its picks for the eight best boats of the year. The “pocket cruiser” candidates were priced between $80,000 and $117,000. ...
Issue 7 : Jul/Aug 1999 Summertime — and the cruising is easy, and its reason, really, for being. Summer is your two-week cruise to Maine, maybe, or to Cape Cod and the Islands, or to Newport and Mysti...
Issue 7 : Jul/Aug 1999 I dinghied ashore shortly after 8 a.m., in good time to catch the coffee group at the Conch Inn. (You’ll find it on your chart, at Marsh Harbor in the Abacos, Bahamas.) I was li...
Superstition got you down? John Vigor offers tips for renaming your boat and keeping it lucky Issue 7 : Jul/Aug 1999 I once knew a man in Florida who told me he’d owned 24 different yachts and renamed...
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 ...
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...
