Boat decks take a beating from sun and salt that eventually takes its toll on factory-molded nonskid. Once nonskid loses its grip, resurrecting it becomes a safety issue. Sailors looking to put...

Spring is but a month away, so I am plunging once again into polishing and waxing fiberglass boat hulls. This post covers almost everything you need to know about cleaning, polishing, and waxing your boat. It includes links to our online "how-to" resources and links to our tests of various classes of products mentioned. The main purpose of the article is to provide an overview of the many archive articles we have in our library on this topic, so that you can choose which reports best apply to your situation and then dig in as deep as you like.

Our story begins in 1970, with the introduction of the Cal 29. Looking for something similar but a bit smaller, the company asked designer Bill Lapworth for a 27-footer, which at first was the Cal 27, a fin keel, spade rudder design with a convertible pop top; another incarnation of this basic hull was the T/2. But the concept of the 29 found its full expression in the Cal 2-27, which began production in 1975 and continued to 1977, after which it was again modified and called simply the Cal 27...again. Production of it ceased in 1986.

Everybody has spills, and just a tiny splatter of epoxy can make a mess of an otherwise flawless job. Never fear, there are some proven cleanup tricks. For uncured epoxy, tape off...

An anchor’s fluke does the real work—it bites, buries and holds. But small differences in its angle, shape and leading edge can determine whether it sets promptly—or merely drags across the...

Any skipper who has ever sailed the Pacific Northwest knows that there are a myriad of islands, anchorages and marinas to explore in the protected waters of Puget Sound and all...

Electric outboards have steadily gained sales in the market to power light dinghies and small sailboats. What has stopped them from gaining even more market share has been the lack of...

At first glance, the Bayfield 32 looks less like a fiberglass production boat from the 1980s and more like somebody shrank a traditional sailing ship until it would fit in a...

In September we tour the Hans Christian 48T — the offshore cruiser many sailors call the holy grail — walk the custom Antigua 60 Soolaimon, and weigh the bargain-priced Jeanneau Sun...

We received a letter from a reader asking us which acids might be used to clean a bronze propeller. Although we’ve found it fairly easy to remove even the most aggressive...