Cooling the cost of a warm cabin Issue 77 : Mar/Apr 2011 A warm boat is a great comfort in the rainy Pacific Northwest. Boats stay in the water year-round here and the shoulder cruising seasons have a...
Boxing in the space more than doubles its usefulness Issue 77 : Mar/Apr 2011 The Pacific Seacraft Dana is a fabulous, well-designed boat. Two of us live aboard Doolittle with ease despite her small si...
A sailor and photographer recalls a dream assignment Issue 77 : Mar/Apr 2011 Every once in a while a boat comes along that captures your heartstrings. Thankfully, it usually happens at a dock or marin...
Stave off rust with diligence, coatings, and care Issue 77 : Mar/Apr 2011 Steel is probably the most misunderstood boatbuilding material — especially in the USA. Many people (so-called experts include...
Synthetic teak covers a patchwork of repairs Issue 77 : Mar/Apr 2011 After twice repairing the deck in areas with wet core in as many years, finding yet another area with soggy balsa made me look for ...
Procrastination pays off in mahogany and bronze Issue 77 : Mar/Apr 2011 The restoration of the Vera May, the 33-foot Hallberg-Rassy Mistral that I belong to, began about four years ago. After moving h...
. . . against its cruising contemporaries Issue 77 : Mar/Apr 2011 The long waterlines, moderate draft, husky displacement, and modest sail area of both the Mariner 36 and Pearson 36 are a solid indica...
Sparkle Plenty is an ongoing production Issue 77 : Mar/Apr 2011 In marriage, politics, and business, a matchmaker is someone who puts people together, knowing the synergy or resulting match will make ...
Pressing pure water out of the sea Issue 77 : Mar/Apr 2011 Osmosis is a natural process in which molecules of a liquid spontaneously pass through a semi-permeable membrane. The direction of fl ow acro...
There’s more to their lines than meets the eye Issue 77 : Mar/Apr 2011 A typical fleet of good old cruising boats will show tremendous variety in the design and layout of their decks. The typical flee...
And guaranteed not to drag Issue 79: July/Aug 2011 Every sailor knows the price of gear goes up exponentially with size. Interestingly, this appears to be completely untrue once an anchor gets above a...
Helping dock “crew” do the right thing Issue 79: July/Aug 2011 When we bring our 1979 C&C 30, Callisto, into a dock, I like to have the docklines made fast and their ends positioned so helping han...
Hold abrasive sheets flat and sorted Issue 79: July/Aug 2011 I cut sandpaper into quarter sheets to keep on hand for finish sanding. In the Florida humidity, sandpaper soon curls and becomes unmanagea...
A simple airflow control Issue 79: July/Aug 2011 Dorade vents are great. They supply water-free air belowdecks even in a pouring rain or when spray is soaking the deck on a beat to windward.We have tw...
Mechanical advantage for the windlass disadvantaged Issue 79: July/Aug 2011 For about 19 years, we have anchored Mystic without benefit of bow rollers or a windlass. When we were weekend sailors, we o...
A rigging repair is a community effort Issue 79: July/Aug 2011 In this, the first of two parts, authors Leslie Linkkila and Philip DiNuovo describe what happens when rigging fails in paradise, how the...
A shipshape Halsey Herreshoff cruiser Issue 77 : Mar/Apr 2011 On Rathbun Lake in Iowa, a single lightning strike in 2007 severely damaged a Bristol 29.9. She was declared a total loss, but that didn’t...
Grandfathering kids into sailing Issue 79: July/Aug 2011 The story of Pop Pop’s Cruise is rooted in a question asked of me by my 18-year-old grandson, Tony, when he was just 9. Following an extended t...
The secret to harmony aboard Issue 77 : Mar/Apr 2011 There is aboard some couples’ sailboats a phenomenon known aboard our boat as “the Princess Principle.” This is a condition in which the guy (usual...
Shared experiences a world apart Issue 78 : May/Jun 2011 As we worked our way inshore at Lovell’s Island to anchor for the night — after spending a day ashore in Boston — I waited too long to give the...
Fundraising and fun at the Hospice Turkey Shoot Regatta Issue 79: July/Aug 2011 August, 2006 At first we thought it was trash, the Ziploc-enclosed brochure thrown into the cockpit of our Bristol Chann...
A nifty tool preserves fingernails and patience Issue 78 : May/Jun 2011 The smallest rigging job can cause the greatest pain. This is particularly so if you sail in northern waters; delaying the haulo...
Thinking beyond the pail Issue 78 : May/Jun 2011 Aboard Mystic the “ship’s bucket” is an important piece of gear. When it’s inactive, it holds the vacuum cleaner and is buried deep in the port cockpit...
A couple of add-ons eliminate the mess Issue 78 : May/Jun 2011 When I first changed the oil and filter on my Yanmar 3YM20, I made a mess. The oil filter was completely hidden on one side of the engine...
Secure electrical wiring against chafe Issue 78 : May/Jun 2011 While preparing to run the AC and DC electrical wiring in the refi t of my 33-foot Hallberg-Rassy Mistral, Vera May, I found few products...
A quick and accommodating Gary Mull design Issue 78 : May/Jun 2011 When David “Swede” and Marcia Samuelson sold their San Juan 28 in 1987, they left 14 years of sailing behind and began traveling on m...
Fearless cruisers defy the prophets of doom Issue 79: July/Aug 2011 Reading Karen Larson’s editorial on overcoming fear in the May 2010 issue brought back memories of some of the fear-inspiring projec...
Accepting the limitations set this sailor free Issue 78 : May/Jun 2011 Many of the boats owned and loved by subscribers to this magazine came with the Universal Atomic 4 gasoline engine. That so many ...
A custom box at the helm was the answer Issue 79: July/Aug 2011 After making the decision to add radar to Olo, our 1986 O’Day 35 (see “Radar on the Level,” May 2011), I faced the challenge of where an...
Bird sightings enrich the cruising experience Issue 78 : May/Jun 2011 We never took much notice of birds before we went to sea. We didn’t need to. We had human company everywhere we went. Not all of i...
