And creating a young sailor along the way Issue 23 : Mar/Apr 2002 There were days when I dreamed of faking my death and moving to Liechtenstein. When the kids were small and the house was in constant ...
*With apologies and gratitude to A.A. Milne. Issue 23 : Mar/Apr 2002 Jerry and I sat contentedly in the cockpit on one recent vacation in one of nature’s purest places: Isle Royale National Park. It w...
Heavy-weather sailing helps sort out life’s problems Issue 23 : Mar/Apr 2002 A strange rattling; my eyes were blurred; blindly my fingers moved to the drawstring and pulled it down. Cracks of darkness...
Why not a solar garden light? Issue 23 : Mar/Apr 2002 The sailing club we belong to has limited dock space. Therefore, the majority of us have our boats on moorings. This is not normally a problem, bu...
A useful way to remove frozen hose Issue 23 : Mar/Apr 2002 Disconnecting a plastic hose from the through-hull fitting it has shrunken onto over the years is enough to make anyone hot under the collar....
Simple (not too elegant) gauge for your holding tank Issue 23 : Mar/Apr 2002 Our boat was built with a holding tank, but there was no provision made for determining how full it is. In the early years,...
An easier way to thread a new line through your mast Issue 23 : Mar/Apr 2002 Threading a new electrical cable or halyard down the inside of a mast is tricky — especially if you have internal halyards ...
The culinary delights of shrimp, crab, and lobster Issue 23 : Mar/Apr 2002 Michael Greenwald told us how to collect and cook clams, mussels, and other delights in the November 2001 issue. Can the man ...
A Luders 33 by any other name would sail as sweetly Issue 23 : Mar/Apr 2002 The Sea Sprite 34 in one of the few Luders auxiliaries created since 1960 that I didn’t have a hand in. On the other hand, I...
An ongoing do-it-yourself project Issue 23 : Mar/Apr 2002 One big do-it-yourself project.” According to Bruce and Nancy Worster, this accurately describes their marriage, raising a family, and in part...
Give your boat’s name a facelift with vinyl letters and graphics Issue 23 : Mar/Apr 2002 Your boat’s name probably reveals a bit about you. How that name appears on your boat can also reflect on...
Follow these instructions to give your deck a sparkling new life Issue 23 : Mar/Apr 2002 The very first day a new boat is rolled out of the shop, the sun (or rain, or sleet, or hail, or hobnailed boot...
Zoltan’s choice: Ray’s Grocery Store or the great wide sea Issue 23 : Mar/Apr 2002 It was my lifelong dream to buy a sailboat and take a voyage through the South Pacific. Countless times I stood on th...
Make them last longer and perform better Issue 23 : Mar/Apr 2002 Blocks, or to use the landlubber’s term, pulleys, are as indispensable to the operation of a sailboat as an engine is to a powerboat. T...
Stand proud and tall (if you can) once you’ve repacked or adjusted your boat’s stuffing box Issue 23 : Mar/Apr 2002 A stuffing box by any other name — shaft seal, packing gland, rotating seal, packing...
What to expect when the Coast Guard comes aboard particularly in the aftermath of September 11, 2001 Issue 23 : Mar/Apr 2002 Most of the time, when your rearview mirror is full of blue lights, you can...
Preparing for an Atlantic crossing may be inherently more arduous than the crossing itself Issue 23 : Mar/Apr 2002 A couple of years ago I crossed that last threshold of sailing consciousness and anno...
A designer’s view of the compromises involved Issue 23 : Mar/Apr 2002 The displacement/length (D/L) ratio is a non-dimensional figure by which we can compare boats of different lengths. It’s obtained ...
Choosing and installing a roller furling system . . . options and opinions Issue 23 : Mar/Apr 2002 Back in the late 1980s, when my wife, Andra, and I were cruising aboard our 1965 Pearson Vanguard, al...
Old-fashioned, cocky, seakindly Issue 23 : Mar/Apr 2002 The British coastline is rugged and convoluted around Falmouth, Cornwall. The tides run fast, and the wind blows stormily from the southwest. A ...
You’ve got to/you’re gonna hit some docks Issue 23 : Mar/Apr 2002 I’ve heard it said that one of the differences between the sexes is that a woman will hit a dock and say, “I wonder what I did wrong,”...
