Low-stretch Dyneema has advantages over wire Issue 89 : Mar/Apr 2013 Our Liberty 458, Nine of Cups, just celebrated her 25th birthday. We replaced the lifelines the first year we owned her, using viny...
A fast and well-built Bill Lapworth design Issue 89 : Mar/Apr 2013 Each year, my wife, Sandy, and I look forward to early October, when we head for Annapolis and the U.S. Sailboat Show. Our fall 2012 ...
A boat search takes an unexpected turn Issue 89 : Mar/Apr 2013 As I write this, Christine and François Ferbos have returned home to Bordeaux, France. They were in the U.S. to visit their son and his w...
Centerboards, daggerboards, bilgeboards, and leeboards Issue 89 : Mar/Apr 2013 Sailboats need draft if they are to sail to windward efficiently, but deep draft limits boats to sailing in deep waters a...
The evolution of the three-cornered mainsail Issue 89 : Mar/Apr 2013 The three boats in our comparison this issue have almost identical sail plans. Each is a masthead sloop with a Marconi mainsail. Th...
. . . and its club-racer contemporaries Issue 89 : Mar/Apr 2013 Almost every production builder in the late 1960s and early ’70s initially entered the market with a 27-footer, if not as its first boat...
She’s a modern example of “working sail” Issue 89 : Mar/Apr 2013 We began thinking of them as “the Tahoe Four.” There are other winter sailors on Lake Tahoe but this is the core group. Jim Hildinger i...
We asked — now it’s our turn to respond Issue 89 : Mar/Apr 2013 Earlier this winter — once the boat was put away — Jerry decided it would be a good idea to ask our readers for their input. He introduc...
