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A cannibalized cockpit enclosure provides versatile shelter Issue 116: Sept/Oct 2017 How much shelter from the weather does a sailing crew need? Some sailors look at their bare unprotected cockpits and add a dodger, then a bimini, and then the whole caboodle, as Dale Bagnell described in the July 2016 issue of Good Old Boat...
Well-drilled junior sailors help save a mast Issue 116: Sept/Oct 2017 To the tune of the Beverly Hillbillies theme song . . . Let me tell you a little story ’bout an engineer named Tom.Had a little boat that he sailed upon the pond.Then one day he was going for a cruise,And what happened next...
The practiced art of setting and weighing anchor under sail Issue 116: Sept/Oct 2017 In four years of cruising aboard MonArk, we’ve lost our engine twice. On the second occasion, in San Francisco Bay, the alternator seized and we were faced with the prospect of anchoring under sail. At the time, dozens of questions came...
A simple springline takes the heat out of docking Issue 117: Nov/Dec 2017 Many boaters, power or sail, have a little trouble docking cleanly, sometimes made worse by a “helper” on the dock taking charge of a dockline passed ashore. I avoid this by using a springline that gives me control of where the bow...
