November 15, 2003
PS Advisor: 11/15/03
Your Last Set of Trailer Lights?
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Sailtrack Lubricants
Subscribers Only It's no good wrasslin' with the main halyard on the hoist, or the luff on the douse. But don't call the 'marines.' Get Elmer to help.
Teak Treatment All-Stars After Six Months
Subscribers Only Half a year in New England weather, '03 (cold and wet, followed by dank and muggy) has separated the contestants in the field.
Mailport: 11/15/03
Chartplotter-Sounder Conversions
Subscribers Only You can add a conversion kit and transducer to a chartplotter/radar display, and have robust sounder capabilities without needing another screen. We evaluate conversion kits from Garmin, Furuno and Raymarine.
Inside Practical Sailor Blog
San Fran 'Stand-down' = Government Meddling?
by Darrell Nicholson on May 15, 2012
The Coast Guard’s request late last month that sailors “stand-down” and suspend any offshore racing outside San Francisco Bay in the wake of last month’s tragedy in the San Francisco Yacht Club’s Farallones Race rankled more than a few Bay area sailors. The response was not surprising. Critics decried the move as draconian, driven by overzealous safety mavens, an example virulent government intrusion, trampling of personal freedoms, etc. etc. etc. It is a…
