Fiberglass boats begin their next half decade Issue 50 : Sept/Oct 2006 This year marks the 50th anniversary of the birth of the type of boats featured in this magazine. It was 1956 when Aeromarine, né...
An uplifting way to cure pesky deck leaks Issue 65 : Mar/Apr 2009 All the water that comes aboard our boat, whether from sea or sky, is supposed to drain off through scuppers in the sidedecks. Unfortu...
Don’t bet your life on questionable lifelines Issue 69 : Nov/Dec 2009 The following is an excerpt from the second edition of Don Casey’s This Old Boat, published in April of this year by International...
The Brother was big, but the Necchi fit the niche Issue 75 : Nov/Dec 2010 This tale begins with the collapsing real estate market. For 7 years, our few shoreside possessions had been residing in a ren...
The answer is to baffle it Issue 85 : Jul/Aug 2012 Everyone else on the shopping bus was bleary-eyed and commiserating about how many times during the night they had gotten up to close hatches. It had...
It’s easy to lose sight of what it means Issue 91 : Jul/Aug 2013 We all know what a boat is and we can probably arrive at some definition of “old” without too much difficulty, but what exactly puts th...
Sporty covers for cherished Sport-a-Seats Issue 95 : Mar/Apr 2014 In early 2006, this magazine published a photo of the founding editor taking her morning leisure, her feet up and her body reclined in...
World-girdling pioneers inspired generations of sailors with their writing Issue 121: July/Aug 2018 I want to tell a story about Bernard Moitessier. It is not the famous one about him crossing his out...
