Beyond natural artistic instinct, these simple rules can improve your photos Issue 15 : Nov/Dec 2000 Like many of us, Mary Jane Hayes has an instinctive sense of the beautiful and dramatic. She tells ...
Memories of a very special old boat, First of a two-part series Issue 15 : Nov/Dec 2000 Seven Bells was named by her original owners for that time in a mariner’s day when the sun is over the yardarm. ...
After a three-year refit, a much-loved Allied Seabreeze goes cruising again in Maine Issue 14: Sept/Oct 2000 Leaves turn to muted rusts, reds, and golds in Down East Maine. The weather cells move more...
Issue 14: Sept/Oct 2000 We christened our little sailboat Cecile (se-sl) after my wife’s grandmother, a kindergarten teacher from Williamsburg, Iowa. First sailboats and kindergarten teachers share a ...
An old Dutch design lives on because it’s just right for its home waters Issue 14: Sept/Oct 2000 The Netherlands is often called the Venice of the North, due to the great number of canals, waterways, ...
Here’s a hard-bottom inflatable you can create in an afternoon for less than $600 Issue 15 : Nov/Dec 2000 When I bought Millennium Falcon, my 44-foot Bruce Roberts-designed steel sailboat, she came wi...
Modify a trailer for your boat, and do your boatwork at home Issue 14: Sept/Oct 2000 Lindsay Christine sits next to the carport, miles from the ocean, longing for a stiff breeze and an empty horizon. ...
Do your homework. Then do your own preparation Issue 14: Sept/Oct 2000 Some people spend their entire lives in one zip code. Others, through career pressures, family location, health concerns, or good...
Whether you’re hiring, or doing the delivering, it’s a business deal — and every deal has two sides Issue 14: Sept/Oct 2000 Maybe you’ve found the exact boat you want and have the money to pay for it,...
Capsize: how it happens, and what you can do to survive it Issue 15 : Nov/Dec 2000 When Isabelle Autissier’s 60-foot racer capsized in the Southern Ocean last year, it sent a chill of fear through the...
People may be impressed by a millionaire’s rocketship, but “ooohs” and “aaahs” are saved for the classic Issue 15 : Nov/Dec 2000 A British author once wrote, in effect, that you can go away for a week...
Chuck Kanter explores the world of older catamarans and trimarans.His conclusion? It’s thriving Issue 14: Sept/Oct 2000 You’re thirsting for a cruising catamaran. You just came back from the boat show...
A little money, a lot of elbow grease, restore a 22-year-old Alberg classic Issue 15 : Nov/Dec 2000 We pulled around to the field in the back of the old farmhouse, and there she sat, her fenders, mott...
Issue 14: Sept/Oct 2000 FROM AFAR, IN HER ELEMENT, THE WESTSAIL 32 IS THE STUFF romantic dreams are made of. Her mast is tall, her bowsprit long. A wooden tiller sweeps gracefully over a pointed stern...
It’s a versatile workhorse with many uses Issue 15 : Nov/Dec 2000 Like the majority of voyaging sailors, we are sold on the cutter rig. As we gunkhole around the rivers and bays of the U.S. East Coast...
Issue 14: Sept/Oct 2000 Good Old Boat magazine is about cruising sailboats 10 years old and older. When we started this magazine we decided to define a cruising sailboat as any boat with a head, galle...
Tacking’s so easy you won’t know what to do with yourself Issue 15 : Nov/Dec 2000 I’m alone in the cockpit of my schooner, Delphinus, short-tacking up a narrow section of the bay. Half aloud, I say to...
Rugged and classy Issue 15 : Nov/Dec 2000 “Not many 30-footers, old or new, seem basically seaworthy and rugged as the Alberg 30.” That assessment comes from Practical Sailor, a publication which does...
Issue 15 : Nov/Dec 2000 Mystic, our C&C 30, is no youngster. I always say she’s a 1976, although I realize there is a discrepancy of a couple of years. I thought the hull was built in 1976, and sh...
