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How a world voyager improved light-air performance Issue 48 : May/Jun 2006 If you wonder how much drag and hinderance a 2-, 3-, or 4-bladed propeller puts on a sailboat, I suggest you toss a large metal bucket over the transom and hang on to it with a stout lanyard. Wait! Don’t heave the bucket...
Fresh produce from a cruising ketch’s deck Issue 48 : May/Jun 2006 Heading north from Nanaimo to begin our circumnavigation of Vancouver Island on Canada’s west coast, we passed another sailboat heading south, returning to the United States. As our sterns were side by side the skipper pointed and asked, “What is that?” “That” was...
A gourmet cruiser’s tasty substitutes for fresh produce Issue 48 : May/Jun 2006 It was the end of a perfect day. Earlier, we’d had a great spinnaker run along Lake Superior’s Ontario wilderness shoreline into a pristine anchorage. Now we were enjoying a meal of freshly caught lake trout grilled on the barbecue with wild...
Learn the only real essentials for success Issue 48 : May/Jun 2006 I recently read a prediction that it only a matter of time before anyone who is so brave and presumptuous as to command a sailboat will be required to take tests and get a license which permits such. Lacking the license, you may...
