The obvious question: Why hasn’t someone done this before? Issue 7 : Jul/Aug 1999 We’re in a warehouse large enough for at least a half-dozen Goodyear blimps, and Jeff Larsen is pointing to endless st...
Superstition got you down? John Vigor offers tips for renaming your boat and keeping it lucky Issue 7 : Jul/Aug 1999 I once knew a man in Florida who told me he’d owned 24 different yachts and renamed...
Get maximum value in replacement mains and jibs Issue 7 : Jul/Aug 1999 Let’s face it, most of us who sail older boats do so, at least in part, because the new ones are so darned expensive. Few sailors...
Issue 7 : Jul/Aug 1999 I didn’t start out to own a steel-hulled boat. In fact if you had asked me two weeks before I bought it if I wanted a steel boat I would probably have said, “No, I would prefer ...
Whether constructed of steel or aluminum, metal yachts deserve a second look Issue 7 : Jul/Aug 1999 In the 1960s and early 1970s we rarely saw metal yachts in North American waters. Steel yachts had b...
You know which pocket . . . it’s that little one in the front of your jeans . . . Issue 7 : Jul/Aug 1999 One has to wonder why that extraordinary adventurer, Webb Chiles, chose an open 18-footer like ...
Issue 7 : Jul/Aug 1999 People have asked us whether we’d run out of material to write about after a few issues and, if so, what then? I used to worry about the same kind of thing in my youth as I was ...
