My wife, Gail, and I recently installed a new radar antenna on the keel-stepped mast of our Bristol 38.8. The first part of the installation was easy. We mounted the receiver and then, using a weighted string as a messenger, pulled the cables through a small hole in the mast near the unit all the way down to the bottom, The difficult partfiguring out a way to keep the cables from slapping
My wife, Gail, and I recently installed a new radar antenna on the keel-stepped mast of our Bristol 38.8. The first part of the installation was easy. We mounted the receiver and then, using a weighted string as a messenger, pulled the cables through a small hole in the mast near the unit all the way down to the bottom, The difficult partfiguring out a way to keep the cables from slapping
Smell. Pong. Effluvium. Whichever way you describe it, the airborne essence emanating from Ostaras aged sanitation system was highly unpleasant. More than just an odor but thankfully short of a full-blown stench, it permeated the forepeak and almost caused a spousal mutiny during our first weekend aboard. No doubt about it something had to be done.The sanitation system comprised a
Smell. Pong. Effluvium. Whichever way you describe it, the airborne essence emanating from Ostaras aged sanitation system was highly unpleasant. More than just an odor but thankfully short of a full-blown stench, it permeated the forepeak and almost caused a spousal mutiny during our first weekend aboard. No doubt about it something had to be done.The sanitation system comprised a
Sailors are a conservative lot. The sea takes no prisoners, and most people dont care to experiment when the cost of failure is potentially great. Thats why both futuristic and some older traditional sailing rigs struggle for acceptance and often receive little more than patronizing smiles from so-called modern mariners.Ironically, the conventional marconi rig that now dominates sailing
Sailors are a conservative lot. The sea takes no prisoners, and most people dont care to experiment when the cost of failure is potentially great. Thats why both futuristic and some older traditional sailing rigs struggle for acceptance and often receive little more than patronizing smiles from so-called modern mariners.Ironically, the conventional marconi rig that now dominates sailing
Sailors are a conservative lot. The sea takes no prisoners, and most people dont care to experiment when the cost of failure is potentially great. Thats why both futuristic and some older traditional sailing rigs struggle for acceptance and often receive little more than patronizing smiles from so-called modern mariners.Ironically, the conventional marconi rig that now dominates sailing
Sailors are a conservative lot. The sea takes no prisoners, and most people dont care to experiment when the cost of failure is potentially great. Thats why both futuristic and some older traditional sailing rigs struggle for acceptance and often receive little more than patronizing smiles from so-called modern mariners.Ironically, the conventional marconi rig that now dominates sailing
Sailors are a conservative lot. The sea takes no prisoners, and most people dont care to experiment when the cost of failure is potentially great. Thats why both futuristic and some older traditional sailing rigs struggle for acceptance and often receive little more than patronizing smiles from so-called modern mariners.Ironically, the conventional marconi rig that now dominates sailing
Mike Hatch, of Trinidad, West Indies, asks:”My 36-year-old Pearson 390 has bronze through-hull fittings, which are starting to have a lot of surface corrosion. Whats the best way to keep them clean and bright?”Don Casey replies: Normally bronze seacocks and through-hulls turn green because the valves are weeping. If this is the case, you
For those of us on smaller boats, it’s always a challenge to figure out how and where to place enough solar panels to power our
It’s about a two-block bike ride from Bill Pinkney’s house in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, to the marina where a 44-foot Norseman catamaran is moored. He
When talking shop among sailors or reading about safety at sea, ventilation is not a topic that comes up much. Evidently it’s secondary to things
Beneteau’s new 37-footer is the latest in the seventh generation of the French builder’s Oceanis line, which began in 1986. It updates the popular 38.1,
I had been at the U.S. Sailboat Show in Annapolis for a couple of days when I took a brief break from the 50-footers and
Steve Earley doesn’t sail like you and me. Example: One night, he and his 17-foot open boat, Spartina, were anchored in a cove near Crab
It’s not ordinary for a sailor to be captivated by the sight of boulders the size of pianos slipping beneath the keel. In my experience
I was but a shiftless wharf rat, recently shipwrecked, working the docks at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in search of a ride across the
The first question to ask about a boat should be, “What is its purpose?” The new Elan 50.1 answers that clearly. It is a long-range
“Grenada.” The woman, a passenger on a seven-day charter I was captaining in the British Virgin Islands, looked expectantly at me. “I’ve heard there’s a
