Are We Taking Sailing Tales to the Extreme?
The first issue of our 48th year of publication is as good a time as any to play curmudgeon. So let’s talk about the...
8 Bells for Ted Brewer
You don’t have to spend much time in the sailing world to recognize it is filled with some of the planet’s most creative, good-spirited...
New Lifelines for a New Life
Rigger Glenn Mooney of Yacht Riggers in St. Petersburg, Florida has no choice but to be organized. A veteran rigger with more than three...
Boatyard Launch Logistics
Amidst the excitement of launch day—your desire to be back in the water, and the yard’s eagerness to make room for another customer (chaching)—...
Doomed by Pride and Envy
My last big haulout was careening an old wooden boat on a mud flat in Benoa Harbor, Bali. We had hired a crew of...
Tips on Beating the Heat at Sea
During our decade of cruising, my partner and I spent most of our days within 20 degrees of the equator. In many tropical ports...
Zen and the Art of the Endless Refit
The forlorn monuments to Sisyphus are clustered in one corner of the boatyard where the summer weeds grow tall. They arrive by towboat, strapped...
Introducing Sweet Opal
Twenty-one years ago, my planned four-year circumnavigation was going on its 11th year. (If you’re young and broke, that’s precisely how a four-year circumnavigation...
Buying a Boat? Insight into the Owner Helps.
At the height of the pandemic last summer, a sailing-surfing pal I knew from my days on Guam (a great place to rebuild the...
Bridging the Ocean Between Us
In the year 2000, when I stepped off of ye ol’ Tosca and into the roles of full time sailing editor, husband, and father,...
This 1997 Sailboat Costs $350,000… Here’s Why – Hampton 43
Can a 1997 sailboat really be worth $350,000? In this video, we take a deep dive into the Hampton 43 pilothouse cutter, a heavy-displacement...
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Rhodes 22 Used Boat Review
Designed by Phillip Rhodes back in 1960, the Rhodes 22 is a trailerable cruiser for a couple that wants the amenities of a larger boat without putting up with the hassles and expenses of a larger boat. It's clearly not a racing boat. It's also not a "shoehorn special," whose claim to fame is how many persons it can sleep. And it's not an inexpensive boat for its size. The Rhodes 22, from its inception, has been a purpose-built boat. And, with a history of detail improvements and some innovative thinking, it meets that purpose quite well.