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Maintenance and DIY

Gear: Bloxygen Finish Preserver

The off season is the best time for boat projects. But doesn’t it just frost your cookies when you’re all set to finish that piece

Gear: Prop Coat Barnacle Barrier

Prop Coat Barnacle Barrier 1792 is now available in a quart-size can and, as always, can be used on all underwater metals, including saildrives, shafts,

Gear: PYI clamps

Although they can be easy to forget or neglect, hose clamps are among the most important pieces of kit aboard any boat with through-hulls for

Gear: Solar Powered Dinghy Pump

Tired of forever finding your dinghy or open daysailer filled with water when you arrive to go sailing? For years, sailors and engineers have sought

Gear: Barton’s EasySplice

Splice Easy There seems to be no end of uses for Dyneema line on sailboats, and although it’s easier to splice than most kinds of

Gear: Pettit’s EZ-Tex

There are lots of epoxy products on the market, and those that score highly with sailors tend to be reasonably priced, easy to use and

Gear: Raritan Cleaners

PHEW NO MORE It’s the time of year when boat heads can start to get a bit funky, so in the interests of family harmony,

Gear: Black Widow Pettit Paint

WELCOME THE BLACK WIDOW If you’re a racing sailor you want your boat to have an ultra-slick, ultra-smooth bottom paint, and the folks at Pettit

Seaglider Saved!

A cruising family and two friends have recovered the University of Washington’s Seaglider in the Pacific, after learning about the plight of the damaged automated underwater vehicle from a story in SAIL.

Today’s Trivia: Need for Speed

Named for the author of Around the World in 80 Days, the Jules Verne Trophy commemorates the fastest circumnavigation on record. Which of the following

A Father, Son and a Custom Boat

“It was almost standing waves, and we were hobby horsing. The bow was going whoosh, and we were going nowhere,” says Kevin Starnes, 62. He’s

Weekly Photo: Aloft

Going up the mast can be daunting, but not for this sailor who tackled the task while underway on Narragansett Bay last summer. This year,

Scraping the Sky

Colloquially the term “skyscraper” is used to refer to a tall city building, but nearly a hundred years before its modern architectural association, it had

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