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Featured Posts

1

The traveler control lines can be configured in a great many ways. In this simple example, cam cleats for the port and starboard control lines are incorporated into the car.

Travelers 101

July 23, 2026

2

A simple vector diagram shows how the speed and direction of the boat and the speed and direction of the true wind combine to create the speed and direction of the relative wind.

Doing the twist

July 23, 2026

3

A little ingenuity, a few scraps of lumber, and some quality time with tools turned an ugly bulkhead into a tidy repository for the navigator’s notes and necessities.

A beneficial coverup

July 23, 2026

4

Robert Perry has used the canoe stern on several of his designs. In this example, he has filled out the sections in the stern a little by flattening the buttocks and “fattening” the waterlines. This allows the hull to gain immersed volume aft and outboard as it heels, giving the boat more “power” to carry sail.

Stern talk

July 23, 2026

5

Although it has a few superfluous functions, the best feature of this lantern is that it uses no batteries . . . just crank it up and turn it on.

The “green” lantern

July 23, 2026

6

A few yards of Velcro One-Wrap, a handful of cotter pins, and a tube of epoxy, at left, are all it takes to make a slew of handy locks, center above, that fit in a jiffy to keep turnbuckles secure, at right.

Velcro turnbuckle locks

July 23, 2026

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