Antifouling Choices for Underwater Metals
Propellers, shafts, struts, outboard and Saildrive engine housings, and through-hull fittings, composed variously of bronze, stainless, and aluminum, are notoriously difficult to keep...
Strippers and Crimpers
No matter how large or small your onboard tool box, no matter how many wrenches, pliers, hammers, and putty knives you have cleverly packed...
Offshore Log: Gelcoat Maintenance
Painting fiberglass boats is a huge business. The development of high-gloss, long-lived polyurethanes means you can get multiple years out of a paint job....
Glove Up!
There's a big market these days for "exam" gloves—the kind that used to be reserved for doctors and dentists, but are now used...
Bottom Paints 2003
Just in time for commissioning chores in temperate climes, here are the results from our 12th annual bottom paint tests. These are among the...
Teak Treatment All-Stars Grudge Match
Teak is a wondrous wood. Some wood-lovers don't care for its somber earth-tone colors, preferring instead the luster of mahogany, the richness of cherry,...
Topside Paints At One Year
To commence its first-ever test of high-gloss topsides paint, Practical Sailor about a year ago applied a colorful "bracelet" on the editor's work boat—a...
Restoring Decks: Nonskid Options
There comes a time in the life of every fiberglass boat when the molded nonskid pattern on the deck wears thin. Foot traffic as...
Clear Plastic Cleaners
At their best, all but brand-new flexible plastic "windows" are wrinkly, often scratched or cloudy, and vulnerable to dirt that further obscures vision. There...
PS Advisor: 01/15/03
Aluminum-Stainless CorrosionI have a problem with my pedestal steering mount. I have to move the instrument-mounting arms. I removed the securing screws, but the...
How To Buy Sails – With Joe Cooper
Looking to learn how to buy sails for your sailboat? Deciding between Dacron sails or laminate sails? Thinking about how to buy carbon fibre...
