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...
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 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 ...
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...
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 ...
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,...
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...
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...
Or, why the ex-owner’s wife sends me cheerful cards every Christmas Issue 11 : Mar/Apr 2000 I called my friend Phil one afternoon to ask his opinion of a 19-foot Spacesailer I had seen at a boatyard i...
A pair of tough mini racer/cruisers strut their stuff in Maine and New York Issue 11 : Mar/Apr 2000 I’m sailing.” As Bob Howe speaks those words, his eyes sparkle, and the grin common to born-again sa...
A Pacific Seacraft 25, the last of her kind, sets out for the Gulf of Alaska and beyond Issue 11 : Mar/Apr 2000 The longshoreman was an old seadog with Skye-blue eyes and a Scottish burr, watching me ...
Issue 11 : Mar/Apr 2000 Before I made my first ocean crossing, I would allow the water to run in the sink while I brushed my teeth. Then, one day in mid-Atlantic, the first time in my life that I had ...
Issue 12 : May/Jun 2000 On January 6, 2000, he went sailing for the first time. He stepped off the dock and shed the shackles of the land, experiencing for the first time the noiseless serenity and fr...
(With apologies to Joshua Slocum) Issue 12 : May/Jun 2000 In the March 2000 issue of Practical Sailor editor Dan Spurr describes how he came to sell his Tartan 44, Viva. He concludes that he has lost ...
Issue 12 : May/Jun 2000 You’re not thinking sailing!” my husband once admonished me after a particularly stupid error on my part. Not only was I not thinking sailing, I was resenting what had come to ...
Wooden boats can be a good choice for cost, comfort, and old-fashioned seaworthiness Issue 12 : May/Jun 2000 We’re not alone in being unable to afford a new offshore cruising boat, or even a recently ...
Issue 12 : May/Jun 2000 Perhaps you’ve noticed: Jerry and I are a couple of good old folks with a good old boat — exactly the profile of many of our readers. We have not circumnavigated the globe. (Je...
Issue 13 : Jul/Aug 2000 Since Carl departed, there is no one left to speak for his “billions and billions” of stars. With Sagan gone, his stars are still out there, as they have been since a lost sail...
Issue 13 : Jul/Aug 2000 Return to your boat after a week or more, and you’ll see their lacework decorating the lifelines, shrouds, and pulpits. They’re lovely, these spider webs, with silvery threads ...
Issue 14: Sept/Oct 2000 Sail shape isn’t as important to me as it is to my sailing partner, technical editor, co-conspirator, and husband. He’s a consummate sailor, one who honed his skills in the one...
Issue 13 : Jul/Aug 2000 In the winter of 1996, I became possessed by the thought of buying a sailboat. I had had limited and very messy experiences sailing a Sunfish a few times before that, so what c...
Time to quit sailboat racing and take up gentle cruising instead Issue 13 : Jul/Aug 2000 This was written while I was confined to a hospital bed at the Cleveland Clinic following a medical emergency t...
