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Sailing Gear

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: Floating Handheld with VHF/DSC

Standard Horizon’s HX890 handheld packs a lot of technology into a small package, including DSC and 66-channel WAAS GPS. It’s available in black or Navy

Book Review: One-Pot Wonders

James Barber Harbour Publishing, $14.95 I’ll bet a filet mignon against a can of Dinty Moore that almost every cruising cook has read and discarded

Gear: Raymarine Chartplotter

Building on the success of FLIR’s Raymarine Element HV Series with HyperVision sonar, the Element S line features a top-notch all-weather display, best-in-class speed and

Gear: Scanstrut ROKK Charger

Scanstrut ROKK charger  Like it or not, smart phones are a fact of life offshore. This, in turn, leads to problem of keeping said phones

Gear: Zen Watermaker

Zen Watermaker Created with an eye toward providing a kind freshwater nirvana offshore, Zen watermakers from Italy’s Schenker strive to take the complexity of installing

Gear: GPSMAP 8612 Chartplotter

Knowing Where to Go The easy-to-use GPSMAP 8612 chartplotter, one of three new smaller variants of Garmin’s celebrated 8600 series, comes standard with such premium

Gear: Watt&Sea’s Hydro-generator

Gale-force Electricity Watt&Sea’s award-winning hydro-generators have long been popular with both racers (for whom its products were first created) and cruisers. But what to do

Photo by Jose Carlos Pitti Rios

Countdown to the ARC

Sailors from over 30 nations came together yesterday in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, at the opening ceremony of the 40th Atlantic Rally for Cruisers (ARC),

Savvy Navvy_NMEA Connect

Savvy Navvy Gets Connected

These days connectivity is everywhere. From smart appliances to assisted driving, all of our electronics seem to have an app. So it only makes sense

Beneteau GT 40

Beneteau GT 40

Sporty, sleek, and comfortable—meet Beneteau’s new and versatile GT 40.

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