PS Advisor: Acid Cleaning Potable Water Systems
You won’t find recommendations or articles from health authorities about sanitizing plumbing or drinking water equipment with vinegar because it isn’t very effective. Some...
Wintering Afloat
Insurance and hurricane risk may require a layup. But I’ve been quite happy wintering in the mid-Chesapeake, snow, ice and all. Over 35 years,...
Bruce Kirby Memoir Tops The Reading List
Writer, raconteur, polymath, and Olympian, very few have touched the sport of sailing in all its facets as thoroughly as Bruce Kirby. Yes, he...
Better Living with USB
Standard power on cruising sailboats is 12 volts, and since the beginning of time, the standard low-voltage outlet, as a consequence, was a 12V...
Additives Fight Urine Odor
Some will claim urine is sterile and doesn’t smell. Horse hockey. No matter how careful you are, urine is loaded with nitrogen (urea) and...
Feeling the Breeze
There are really three reasons we ventilate; in summer to beat the heat, in the off-season to fight moisture build up from cooking and...
Rhumb Lines: Beating the Heat at Anchor
This month’s article on ventilation got me thinking about how the current situation will impact living aboard in marinas.
During 10 years of living aboard,...
A Trash Compactor and a Drip Guard
It seems anomalous, but whether at home or on the boat, when we bring X volume of goods in, they expand to X+20 percent...
A Little PS Winter Reading
With winter upon us, and boats sitting on the hard in many places, its a good time to troubleshoot or update systems, and to...
Liveaboard Sailors Laundry Hacks
At home, laundry is about removing grease, grass, and coffee stains without damaging the fabric of the clothing. Energy and water efficiency only matter...
The Cheap Big Cruising Sailboat – Endeavour 42
Interested in a 40-45 foot cruising sailboat? Sailing Florida or the Bahamas and need a shoal draft sailboat that’s big enough to be a...
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Cheoy Lee Clipper 36 & 42 Used Boat Review
Cheoy Lee Shipyards of Hong Kong has been a commercial builder since the early 1900s and is one of the first molders of fiberglass...