Spinlocks PX Power Cleat Releases Under Load
Perhaps nothing on boats has developed as steadily and soundly as line-holding devices—cams, clams, jams, clutches, stoppers and plain old horned cleats.There were some...
Color GPS Chartplotters: Si-Tex Nautilus is a Best Buy
Of seven models, the Si-Tex Nautilus earns a Best Buy, but the Shipmate CE40 is the one we’d most like to own.
Belt Tension Gauges
Practical Sailor’s editor-at-large, Nick Nicholson, writing in the Offshore Log in the May 1999 issue, discussed a breakdown of Calypso’s high-output alternator.Because such alternators...
Color GPS Chartplotters: Si-Tex Nautilus is a Best Buy
Of seven models, the Si-Tex Nautilus earns a Best Buy, but the Shipmate CE40 is the one we’d most like to own.
Nav Software: Visual Navigation Suite vs. The Cap’n
A close examination of each charting program favors Visual Navigation Suite’s vector charts over The Cap’n’s raster charts.
Nav Software: Visual Navigation Suite vs. The Capn
A close examination of each charting program favors Visual Navigation Suite’s vector charts over The Cap’n’s raster charts.
Offshore Log: Essential Forecasting Tools
Our years of sailing in New England and the Caribbean, with their stable, predictable weather patterns, left us ill-prepared to deal with the vagaries...
Light Dimmer and Motor Controller
Occasionally, there are times when you would like to control the lighting brightness in the cabin-intimate settings, night sailing without adequate red lights in...
Why the Catalina 42 Took Over the Caribbean
You see them everywhere — the Bahamas, the Virgin Islands, all across the Caribbean. The Catalina 42, especially the Mark II, has quietly become...
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