Your boat takes you to places you can’t reach any other way Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 How far is it to somewhere else? It’s a relative thing. It’s straightforward to lay a tape measur...
Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 When you’re using throw-away brushes to apply resin to small fiberglass jobs or saturating timber with rot-proofing epoxy, things can get pretty messy. By cloaking your ...
Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 Unscrewing a slotted deck-filler cap with a screwdriver can be hard work, especially if the cap has corroded in place. Small screwdrivers tend to turn within the slot, and eve...
Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 Like most sailors, I take pride in ownership. Every item not in use is stowed in its proper place, and anything with a cover is covered. It is because of this attention to det...
Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 Many diesel engines aboard sailboats have compression-release or decompression levers on top of the engine for each cylinder. As their name implies, these levers hold open the...
Two very different aids to navigation Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 Back in 1968 when I was a navigating officer on the USS Newport News, we had a chart table that would hold a full-sized chart without fol...
How to shower without having a shower aboard Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 A cruiser friend once said about her first trip up the Intracoastal Waterway, “We had to stop at a marina every few days for showe...
Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 Paint this picture in your mind: You are at sea after dark, the waves are a bit more than you like, and the shaft packing is leaking. It’s not life-threatening. The automatic ...
How a mysterious mechanical malady was finally cured Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 The other day we were out sailing and headed home when the wind died. We turned on the engine and motored back to the harb...
Ted Hood’s lively centerboarder still a great performer Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 The Pearson 35 and Tartan 34 first saw the light of day in the late 1960s, the Bristol 35.5C and Tartan 37 in the late ...
Both Paul Niland and his beloved Bristol 35.5 sail their hearts out Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 “Sailing is not a matter of life and death. It’s much more important than that,” believes Paul Niland. Now ...
Advancing age leads to the delicate decision to downsize Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 Time to sail, again. Unlikley nuzzles patiently at the sea wall alongside our house. Her bow leans yearningly toward t...
Making that seemingly impossible choice Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 So, you’re in the market for a trailerable sailboat. Great! There are more than 50 new trailerables currently in production, rang...
The Com-Pac 23 is a trailerable pocket cruiser with sturdy, traditional lines Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 Florida resident Jim Lennox seems to have figured things out pretty well. He’s the antithesis of ...
Understanding and using your marine-band radio Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 The primary short-range radio-communication system for most small craft is the VHF-FM marine-band radio. It is the communication...
Cost-effective sailing vacations; let us count the ways . . . Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 Sailing and sailboats (and perhaps life in general) are all about compromises. Sometimes it would be nice to sail...
Do your homework before you put your boat in charter Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 The pull to own a sailboat can be understandably strong. So when the temptation looms to save expenses by putting it in ch...
One sailing family’s answer to the dinghy problem Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 Cursing while sailing among the Apostle Islands never seems wise, not with a couple hundred feet of melted glacier beneath ou...
Famous wooden ocean racer now modified for shorthanded cruising Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 Improbable is the wrong name for this boat. Logical would be better, or Synergy, or Refinement. I wasn’t thinki...
Simple ebb and flow results from highly complicated physics Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 Poets and ancient cultures have long compared life itself with the tides. Historically, a flood tide has been consi...
All you ever wanted to know — and much more Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 Webster’s dictionary: Scend (send), n. [<send, assumed to be a contr. of ascend], the upward heaving of a ship: correlativ...
A determined sojourner ends a long search for the right boat Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 It was the way the sails seemed more like wings than cloth that held me transfixed that summer morning as I stood ...
One of Bill’s pupils reminisces as the one-time mentor turns 85 Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 Dear Editor: You want me to write a piece on Bill Garden including background biographical information to be pu...
A crafty sailor converts a water tank into a chain locker Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 The stock water tank in my 1965 Columbia Defender 29 was a plastic, 25-gallon, tapered, trapezoidal thing under the V...
Significant advances in new generation of autopilots Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 Not long ago, autopilots were little more than powered aids to steering with somewhat primitive designs and a reputation f...
How Roger Hewson managed the cut and thrust of boatbuilding Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 The history of Sabre Yachts is inextricably entwined with the life of Roger Hewson. Almost no one connected with th...
A catboat with standing headroom and fixed keel? Here’s onesuch Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 I’ve always loved catboats but never owned one. There always seemed to be limiting factors that made me look fo...
Sailing’s also sweating, swearing, swatting, and plain hard work Issue 32 : Sept/Oct 2003 New dock neighbors have moved in next door. We share a finger pier, which means we’ll be seeing a lot of each ...
Simple piloting suits the style of a 40-year-old woodie and her captain Issue 33 : Nov/Dec 2003 We travel in a maze of convoluted shorelines, narrow passages invisible until we are right next to them,...
Issue 33 : Nov/Dec 2003 There are idyllic days when sailing. Many of them. We all recognize this fact, or we wouldn’t be out there with all that canvas in the wind. Those are gorgeous days when nature...
