The McBride knack for sidestepping misfortune Issue 118: Jan/Feb 2018 Sitting in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, four weeks after the eye of Category 5 Hurricane Maria missed us by a few miles, with no ...
Issue 118: Jan/Feb 2018 SmartPlug Marine Cordset Friends on two different sailboats have had electrical fires that originated in their shorepower connections. Corrosion on the contacts and internal co...
Lasting social mementos created with imagination and recycled sailcloth Issue 118: Jan/Feb 2018 It wasn’t until my partner, Jim, and I made our first trip to Mexico on our Outbound 46 that I was intro...
Extending the life of an engine’s raw-water strainer Issue 118: Jan/Feb 2018 The Perko intake water strainer that feeds the engine on Phantom, our Pearson 365 ketch, was on its last legs. A hinged bol...
It keeps the air fresh in a closed-up boat Issue 118: Jan/Feb 2018 When cleaning our good old Island Packet 31 shortly after purchasing her, I noticed a little white mold on some of the wooden interio...
An older boat is good enough for a crew of older sailors Issue 118: Jan/Feb 2018 This adventure started just like our last one (“Narrowboat Adventure,” July 2016), over a bottle of wine in the cockpit...
The guardians of the through-hull fell down on the job Issue 118: Jan/Feb 2018 Fifteen years of world cruising and my wife, Ellen, and I were now gliding along the Sassafras River on Chesapeake Bay’s ...
The yen to travel by boat is in her blood Issue 118: Jan/Feb 2018 I grew up in a megalopolis of five million people. My father always seemed to me a city person. He was an engineer, a tutor at the uni...
A dilapidated freebie becomes a respectable tender Issue 118: Jan/Feb 2018 When I bought my Down East 45 schooner, Britannia, she didn’t come with a dinghy, but she had very sturdy aluminum davits jus...
Intrepid Great Loopers survive in frigid Duluth Issue 118: Jan/Feb 2018 Most cruisers complete the Great Loop cruising route — up the ICW from Florida, through the Erie Canal to the Great Lakes, south...
Viewing vessel traffic with a smartphone app Issue 118: Jan/Feb 2018 A couple of times a year, I find myself on Virginia’s Hampton Roads, a large natural harbor close to the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. W...
Issue 118: Jan/Feb 2018 George Harding Cuthbertson passed away at the age of 88 at his home in Toronto on October 3, 2017. In the sailing world, George Cuthbertson is best known as the first “C” in C&...
A camp stove makes the grade for a lakes-cruising family Issue 118: Jan/Feb 2018 For the first 49 seasons after our 1965 Alberg 35 was built, a simple two-burner propane camp stove had sufficed in the...
A departure delayed by foul ground and a lee shore Issue 118: Jan/Feb 2018 Following years of laid-back dreaming, of soaking up from books, magazines, and YouTube the wisdom and experience of voyagers...
. . . and a trio of Canadian contemporaries Issue 118: Jan/Feb 2018 George Hinterhoeller, with his company, Hinterhoeller Yachts, was one of the four founding members of C&C Yachts in 1969. By 197...
This nimble George Hinterhoeller design excels at club racing Issue 118: Jan/Feb 2018 Boatless, having sold his Bayfield 23, Brian Casey scratched his sailing itch by racing on friends’ boats and caug...
Boat cards connect good friends and good times with places far and near Issue 118: Jan/Feb 2018 They’re a throwback to a time we seem to have moved past, a quaint time when all letters were handwritte...
