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After a three-year refit, a much-loved Allied Seabreeze goes cruising again in Maine Issue 14: Sept/Oct 2000 Leaves turn to muted rusts, reds, and golds in Down East Maine. The weather cells move more quickly and winds pick up, flinging sea spray against the multi-colored lobster buoys. There are fewer sails on the water. The...

Memories of a very special old boat, First of a two-part series Issue 15 : Nov/Dec 2000 Seven Bells was named by her original owners for that time in a mariner’s day when the sun is over the yardarm. Her owners, I was told, were not particularly concerned with the altitude of the sun as...

Beyond natural artistic instinct, these simple rules can improve your photos Issue 15 : Nov/Dec 2000 Like many of us, Mary Jane Hayes has an instinctive sense of the beautiful and dramatic. She tells us what appeals to this instinctive photographic sense in her article in the September 2000 issue of Good Old Boat. But...

Modify a trailer for your boat, and do your boatwork at home Issue 14: Sept/Oct 2000 Lindsay Christine sits next to the carport, miles from the ocean, longing for a stiff breeze and an empty horizon. We are happy to have our trusty Mercator Offshore 30 sloop so close. She’s undergoing a refit, and having...