A novice sailor finds it easy to slip out of time while learning a new world. Issue 130: Jan/Feb 2020 It all started as a writing project. Assigned an article on sailors who singlehandedly sailed acro...
Issue 130: Jan/Feb 2020 Nav in Hand During a cruise of southwest Florida, I used the iNavX charting and navigation app on my iPhone 8 (it can be used on other IOS and Android devices as well). The app...
Getting tasty water from your boat’s tap isn’t a pipe dream if you follow some basic steps. Issue 130: Jan/Feb 2020 Stagnant, skunky, tank-sourced drinking water is one of the less romantic aspects of...
A new life for an abandoned good old boat turns a lubber into a sailor. Issue 130: Jan/Feb 2020 It all began on a sunny mid-August Saturday seven years ago, my two boys and I walking along the harbor ...
A meander along Nova Scotia’s southwestern coast is just the ticket for a miles-weary sailor. Issue 130: Jan/Feb 2020 Straws and camel’s backs are funny things. I’d been sailing with my husband and ou...
An alternator puzzle leads down an illuminating electrical rabbit hole. Issue 130: Jan/Feb 2020 For several days while anchored off a remote Pacific island, wind and solar power took care of the batte...
A monster wind wreaks havoc on a “safe” harbor. Issue 130: Jan/Feb 2020 In March 2019, we were halfway up Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula, sailing on the Sea of Cortez side and looking ...
Understanding what’s happening on the bottom goes a long way to improving anchoring success. Issue 130: Jan/Feb 2020 Any article about anchoring can smack of fear mongering. And the audience is ripe b...
Rethinking a battery lifting strap results in a longer-lived piece of essential boat gear. Issue 130: Jan/Feb 2020 Batteries are heavy. In a sailboat they are best positioned low, near the centerline,...
A meditation on mountains helps define an evocative passion for sailing. Issue 130: Jan/Feb 2020 At 45 degrees North, our bedroom overlooks an old neighborhood with mature hardwood and conifer trees, ...
Adding a gate in the stern pulpit makes for easy in, easy out. Issue 130: Jan/Feb 2020 We love our 40-year-old Catalina 27, but it has the old-style stern pulpit with no easy access to the swim ladder...
A liveaboard sabbatical wasn’t quite as expected, but maybe even more. Issue 130: Jan/Feb 2020 I’ve dreamed of the liveaboard sailing lifestyle. What could be better than a life of purpose, nonstop ad...
Here’s how to put a quick, easy stop to a free-spinning prop and shaft. Issue 130: Jan/Feb 2020 Under sail aboard Soggy Paws, our CSY 44, the flow of water past our hull makes our fixed-blade prop spi...
…And Two More Cruising-Capable Performance Tris Issue 130: Jan/Feb 2020 It’s probably fair to say that the average recreational sailor seldom considers a performance trimaran for extended or eve...
A Cruising Rocket Issue 130: Jan/Feb 2020 New Zealand designer Ian Farrier, who died in 2017, is legendary in the multihull community for his concept of folding trimarans. His patented Farrier Folding...
A repower in rural Alaska required precise planning and helpful hands. Issue 130: Jan/Feb 2020 Wide awake in my bunk, I stared at the ceiling without really seeing it. It was nearing 3 a.m., and my mi...
In a lifetime of passagemaking and writing, John Kretschmer pays the love of sailing forward. Issue 130: Jan/Feb 2020 When we were planning our eventual leap to the full-time sailing life, my b...
