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Defeating the feathered menaces that alight in your rigging Issue 24 : May/June 2002 How many times have you scrubbed your deck only to notice, scant minutes later, a juicy purple Rorschach pattern violating its hard-earned shine . . . or visited your boat after several days away, to find your deck, cockpit, and canvas...
Issue 25 : Jul/Aug 2002 I sometimes feel that I have been swimming and sailing upstream all my life. I am one of the few sailors who has, over the years, moved down, rather than up, in boat size. But ah, the pleasures of owning and sailing small boats. As with most things having to...
Having capitulated, here’s how to raise the waterline Issue 24 : May/June 2002 In the course of family boating history, some truths become self-evident. One of these is that boats get smaller. Sailing is not always an inexpensive form of transportation. Waterlines (as well as beltbuckle holes) disappear under increasing weight. This last problem (the...
Things you need with you when you get away from it all Issue 24 : May/June 2002 Successful cruising is largely about independence — not in the sense of being indefinitely self-sufficient, but in that the boat and her crew can deal with most eventualities unaided, or at least put up with the consequences. Many...
