Installing an outboard motor well on a 28-foot cruiser Issue 27: Nov/Dec 2002 WHEN OUR BOATS WERE HAULED for routine maintenance at a Trinidad boatyard recently, my friend, Theo, asked me for suggesti...
A classy English lady gets a facelift Issue 44: Sept/Oct 2005 ONCE EMBARKED ON A LIMITED REFIT project on your classic cruiser, you will surely be tempted to carry on until she is transformed into the...
A classy English lady gets a facelift Issue 45 : Nov/Dec 2005 In this two-part series, which began in the September 2005 issue, James Baldwin discussed interior modifications, including cabinets, lock...
A new cockpit locker provides stowage galore Issue 59 : Mar/Apr 2008 Have you ever seen a sailboat with too much cockpit locker stowage space? Neither have I. Unfortunately, the reverse is more typica...
A circumnavigator adjusts to life’s shifting winds Issue 72 : May/Jun 2010 Last spring, a friend of ours sailed from our adopted homeport of Brunswick, Georgia, on the first leg of a planned circumnav...
A journey alone around the world by sail and by foot Issue 91 : Jul/Aug 2013 Good Old Boat is proud to announce our 15th audiobook, this one by James Baldwin about the wonderful and rather unusual two...
The case for a well that encloses the tilted-up motor Issue 122: Sept/Oct 2018 Sailboat auxiliary engines, inboard and outboard, have their strong points and weak points, friends and foes. My experien...
In “Mounting the Outboard Inboard, Part 1,” September 2018, James Baldwin summarized the pluses and minuses of replacing an inboard engine with an outboard motor, and specifically the benefits of inst...















