Ocean Tested: A Professional Carpenter and Cruiser Tells Practical Sailor What’s in His Power-tool...
In the last decade, tool manufacturers have drastically improved their standard products. Today, all of the major manufacturers offer professional-grade power tools at reasonable...
Wave Survives Alinghi Challenge
One of our campaigns over the last several years has featured knives and multitools as personal emergency tools that maintain and implement a sense...
Quickline Takes a Load Off
Using an elastic nylon riding stopper (aka snubber) is always recommended when deploying an all-chain rode. Snubbers act as shock absorbers between rode and...
Mailport: 12/06
MARINE INSURANCE REDUXI have been reading with much interest your articles about marine insurance this year (April and May 2006). Every year, I look...
Rhumb Lines — Getting a Fix on Reality
It was mid-July 1990 on the Caicos Banks, a stretch of shallow, gin-clear water extending for about 70 miles east to west in the...
Rechargeable Spotlight Test
The Illumina Light has two other advantages over its competitors: First, its blue beam creates less glare than the others. Second, it can be...
Flashlight Death-Match
]For the nonce, the inexpensive Rayovac Roughneck is PS's choice of a reliable flashlight for use in a marine environment. It works; the 2-D...
Multitools Revisited
The expense of a good multitool—a specialized apparatus containing small tools that most sailors already own individually—is justified by the increased convenience and efficiency...
LED Flashlights
At the end of our last review of LED flashlights, only about three and half years ago, (March 2000) we said that the development...
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...
Universal Diesel Engines – What You Should Know
This week we take a look at the Universal Diesel Sailboat Engine and its history including the Atomic 4 sailboat engine followed by the...
