Beyond natural artistic instinct, these simple rules can improve your photos Issue 15 : Nov/Dec 2000 Like many of us, Mary Jane Hayes has an instinctive sense of the beautiful and dramatic. She tells ...
Memories of a very special old boat, First of a two-part series Issue 15 : Nov/Dec 2000 Seven Bells was named by her original owners for that time in a mariner’s day when the sun is over the yardarm. ...
Here’s a hard-bottom inflatable you can create in an afternoon for less than $600 Issue 15 : Nov/Dec 2000 When I bought Millennium Falcon, my 44-foot Bruce Roberts-designed steel sailboat, she came wi...
Capsize: how it happens, and what you can do to survive it Issue 15 : Nov/Dec 2000 When Isabelle Autissier’s 60-foot racer capsized in the Southern Ocean last year, it sent a chill of fear through the...
People may be impressed by a millionaire’s rocketship, but “ooohs” and “aaahs” are saved for the classic Issue 15 : Nov/Dec 2000 A British author once wrote, in effect, that you can go away for a week...
A little money, a lot of elbow grease, restore a 22-year-old Alberg classic Issue 15 : Nov/Dec 2000 We pulled around to the field in the back of the old farmhouse, and there she sat, her fenders, mott...
It’s a versatile workhorse with many uses Issue 15 : Nov/Dec 2000 Like the majority of voyaging sailors, we are sold on the cutter rig. As we gunkhole around the rivers and bays of the U.S. East Coast...
Tacking’s so easy you won’t know what to do with yourself Issue 15 : Nov/Dec 2000 I’m alone in the cockpit of my schooner, Delphinus, short-tacking up a narrow section of the bay. Half aloud, I say to...
Rugged and classy Issue 15 : Nov/Dec 2000 “Not many 30-footers, old or new, seem basically seaworthy and rugged as the Alberg 30.” That assessment comes from Practical Sailor, a publication which does...
Issue 15 : Nov/Dec 2000 Mystic, our C&C 30, is no youngster. I always say she’s a 1976, although I realize there is a discrepancy of a couple of years. I thought the hull was built in 1976, and sh...
