Issue 129: Nov/Dec 2019 Electricity-Free Slow Cooking Having spent 20 years (off and on) living aboard small boats, I’ve come to realize that there are only a handful of household appliances that I tr...
Issue 129: Nov/Dec 2019 It was a Sunday morning in early June when Jeremy McGeary quit his job at Good Old Boat , via email, without notice. It was the last thing in the world he wanted to do. “I’m af...
Replacing a fabric interior hull covering with oak-on-cedar strips transforms a V-berth. Issue 129: Nov/Dec 2019 Manufacturers of many good old boats of the ’70s and ’80s were looking for time and cos...
A short solo voyage comes with challenges faced and lessons learned. Issue 129: Nov/Dec 2019 When I was 12, my parents bought me a Sunfish, a little board boat with a lateen sail. I’d been reading abo...
When our keel started weeping and our bilge started filling, a keel bolt repair came next. Issue 129: Nov/Dec 2019 Losing a bolt-on keel is a relatively uncommon occurrence, but it’s also about the mo...
Spicing up a marriage with a sailboat means learning some new ropes. Issue 129: Nov/Dec 2019 A few years ago, just prior to our 24th wedding anniversary, I got to wondering what made our marriage so s...
Blackberries, apples, and balancing stones grace a princess’ gift in the Salish Sea. Issue 129: Nov/Dec 2019 Somebody reminded me the other day that my wife June and I have been cruising around Puget ...
New crew in the fam? Here’s how to take them sailing. Issue 129: Nov/Dec 2019 When my husband, Michael, and I found out we were going to be parents in eight short months, the first thing our family an...
Suffering’s for singing the blues, not sailing. Here’s how to stay pain-free on the water. Issue 129: Nov/Dec 2019 When I was in my 20s, a long breezy day on my beach cat invariably resulted in a grim...
Can you call it sailing when you’re not leaving the dock and the work list? Issue 129: Nov/Dec 2019 Seaview, Washington. For about half the year, half the time it’s raining and blowing, the other half...
A Traditional Masterpiece Issue 129: Nov/Dec 2019 Styled by builder Cecil Lang after William Atkin’s classic Tally Ho Major, the Cape George 38 is a traditional cutter with a counter transom, fairly f...
Install a day tank to ensure a clean fuel supply at the ready. Issue 129: Nov/Dec 2019 Few things give me the willies more than the thought of navigating an inlet, cut, or tricky channel when we’re ru...
A tool roll stocked with these top indispensable tools will be your go-to kit. Issue 129: Nov/Dec 2019 After nearly a decade of living aboard full-time and earning my keep fixing other people’s boats ...
An automatic bilge pump for the dinghy solves that sinking feeling. Issue 129: Nov/Dec 2019 For the past couple of years, I’ve kept my dinghy at the dock, butter side up. It’s easy to stow it and use ...
Affordable and innovative, these five boats were multihull game-changers. Issue 129: Nov/Dec 2019 Anyone who’s read this magazine for a while can appreciate how deep and broad the roots of monohull sa...
… And Two Other Interpretations of Timeless Cutter Design Issue 129: Nov/Dec 2019 It is relatively easy to assign a time or decade to the design of most production fiberglass sailboats. That’s particu...
