Swaged Rigging Terminal Failures Raise Concern
Among the many chores to add to the spring to-do list, a rig inspection should rank high. For sailors in the higher lattitudes who...
Bottom Paint Anti-slime Additive Goes Away
CHOOSING A BOTTOM PAINTOur advice for choosing a bottom paint remains the same as always: Make sure the paint is compatible with your existing...
Darwin, barnacles, and organ envy
The act of settling is equally impressive-no messing around with surveys, mortgage notes, or down payments. The cyprid picks a spot to land, secretes...
Rethinking Anchor Snubbers
What length, diameter, and type of snubber do you use? What do you need?
The main purpose of a snubber is to reduce loads on...
Maximizing Bottom Paint Coverage
We had a special visitor down to Sarasota, Florida this week, formerPractical Sailoreditor Dan Spurr was launching his newly purchased boat, a 1977 Pearson...
Keel Failure Redux
This summer, the once lovely Oyster 825 was hauled from the water with its keel missing and a large chunk of skin laminate peeled...
Rethinking Faux Teak Temperatures
Our recent report on synthetic-teak decking options (see PS December 2015) raised a bit of a ruckus among the contenders in what is an...
Preventing Winter Damage to Your Deck
Of all the many evils that winter visits upon our boats-mold, mildew, snow, ice-one of the most insidious is also invisible. Im talking about...
Portable Electrical Propulsion for Small Sailboats
In part one of our two-part test of five and six-horsepower engines in the upcoming January issue of Practical Sailor, we take a second...
Fortune Favors the Cold and Wet
Two stories in the upcoming December 2015 issue of Practical Sailor-installing a fireplace and sealing portlights and hatches-had me pondering the challenges of a...
Monitor Your Whole Boat From Home On A Mobile App
What if you could monitor your whole boat from home on a mobile app or on your computer? Today, we look at ship monitoring...
