2017 Back Issues (Download Only)
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Good Old Boat 2017 Full-year of issues plus index
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January/February 2017 Issue Highlights
March/April 2017 Issue Highlights
Review boat: O’Day 25
Speaking seriously: Feature Boat and Design comparison for the Aloha 34 — Sprits and Spars: a new bowsprit — Cruising design: bowsprits past and present — Rigging matters: refurbishing an aging furler — Creative alternatives: keel on wheels
Lighter fare: Night passages: tactics that help the dark hours pass lightly — Readers’ favorite boat pictures — Explore that world through sailor’s YouTube channels — Cruising memories: magic moments recalled — Protection for fiberglass countertops — Cutting out old caulking — Stirring paint without the splatter — An object of devotion: a sailboat evokes a certain kind of emotion
Click the following link for the Table of Contents Issue #113
May/June 2017 Issue Highlights
Review boat: Hunter 30
Speaking seriously: Making peace with varnish — DIY: build a watermaker — Nav light design considerations — Hazards of marina swimming — Adventures in anchoring — Columbia 29 refit — Overhead replacement
Lighter fare: DIY dinghy covers — Portable solar cockpit lighting — Make a deck key — Lessons from the birds — Build a sea chest — Scenes from a sailing season
Click the following link for the Table of Contents Issue #114
July/August 2017 Issue Highlights
- Fiona McGlynn offers a bottom-cleaning primer
- The immutable pull of the sea stirs Butch Evans
- Allen Penticoff reviews the sprightly Spirit 28 and Rob Mazza offers a design comparison
- DIY: Paul Esterle adds an effective dual-fuel-filter system that doesn’t break the bank
- Don Davies feels only joy for the sailor who enjoys the sweet seasons life offers
- Drew Frye sings the praises of fishing underway with a Cuban yo-yo, Cliff Moore fashions an autopilot riser, and Gregg Nestor creates cowl screens
- Robin Urquhart gets to the bottom of a puzzling overheating cause—what he found surprised us all
- Plus a really big announcement . . . and much more
View or Download the Table of Contents Issue #115
September/October 2017 Issue Highlights
- Tom Wells cuts 19 inches off the bottom of his keel and lives to tell about it (and in a companion piece Rob Mazza tells us why)
- Balmar makes big alternator performance claims and David Lynn puts them to the test
- Robert Lovell reviews the Viking 33 and Rob Mazza offers a different kind of design comparison
- DIY: Repair grommets without sewing and turn a winch handle into a handy mount
- Teak decks on a San Juan 28? Paul Brogger shows us one way to make that happen
- Tom Young rips the cockpit out of his 1961 Alden Challenger yawl and rebuilds it from scratch — the result is a work of nautical art of the highest order
- Fiona McGlynn shares her classy moves for sailing on and off an anchor
- Plus lessons from a near dismasting, a cockpit enclosure study, water-cooled refrigeration, an action-packed readers’ photos gallery, and more!
View or Download the Table of Contents Issue #116
November – December 2017 Issue Highlights
- Dan Spurr and Dick Enersen tell us more about the two great sailboat designers we lost recently, Glen L Witt and Doug Peterson
- Spring lines for singlehanders? Dave Taylor shows us how
- Gregg Nestor reviews the Pearson 323 and Rob Mazza offers a design comparison
- DIY: Build a dinghy floor and see that making handrails is insanely simple
- You’ll want to join Ryan’s Club too after reading about Frank Falcone pushing his grandson away from the dock in a boat they built together
- Jerry Thompson confesses the consequences of his trailer wheel bearing maintenance shortcomings and repents with information every trailerboat sailor can use
- Paul and Arlie Clegg tame their un-stayed headsail with a snuffer they made themselves—got a bucket handy?
- Plus companionway doors, spring lines, a tiller-pilot tether, bottom paint stripping, and more!
View or Download the Table of Contents for issue #117