Practical Sailor

While C&C did not invent the racer/cruiser, the Canadian-based company remained dedicated to the concept of the dual-purpose boat during its halcyon days in the seventies and eighties of the last century. With the notable exception of a few pure cruisers—the relatively low-performance Landfall...

I’ve borrowed my dockmate’s electric dinghy. I bought my wife an e-bike and I know she would like an electric motor.  Small gas motors can smell the fear of those that lack confidence with a manual choke. Gas motors are loud and you have...

The Universal name resonates with many of us as one of the best sailboat engines available. Despite Universal Motor Corp. no longer being in business, I plan to work on many more Universal engines in my time as a marine mechanic. Aboard my own...

Foaming mountains of cold black water loomed out of the darkness behind me, rushing under the stern as the Sabre 386 careened down the face of another wave, bullets of icy spray pelting my foul-weather gear.  I was on the midnight watch under a...

Aboard our Privilege 435 catamaran Confianza, we are teak oilers, not varnishers. Accordingly, our teak needs regular elbow grease. In our (seemingly never-ending) quest for the right teak cleaner, we decided to do a face-off between the two most-often recommended products: Snappy Teak-Nu and...