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Essential Tillerpilot Accessories

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A Modified Tillerpilot Setup

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Mailport: Propane Hose Chafe, Multihull Prices, Farrier F33XC

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Test Driving Furuno’s Cutting Edge Compass

Did you know the accuracy of your electronic compass significantly affects features of your Furuno, B&G, Raymarine, Garmin, and similar multifunction display (MFD) to...

A New Era in Weather Forecasts

Benjamin Franklin is credited with the quote “the weatherwise and the otherwise.” It remains savvy advice for all sailors, and thanks to modern oceanographic...

Solar Panel Self-destruction?

Solar power has become ubiquitous on sailboats, first on cruising boats, but now even on sport boats, where a small solar panel is the...

Green Boating From a Practical Perspective

Before diving into the topic of responsible boating, we’re required to say something about global warming and carbon. Primordial carbon was sequestered by several...

Online Crew Management Software Compared

If you are familiar with how coaches, parents, and kids coordinate details of their team sports with each other through software, you may have...

2 Weather Routing Apps Go to Sea

During a recent delivery from Punta Gorda, FL to St. Augustine, FL I had the opportunity to compare two routing apps, one of them...
skipper using iridium go

Weather Routing with Iridium Go

Last month, in part one of  this report on portable weather routing options, I described why I selected Iridium Go to help guide my...