Rhumb Lines: A Search for Sole Survivors
Inspired by Technical Editor Drew Frye’s dive into sailing shoe durability this month, I recently rummaged through Practical Sailor’s Gear Graveyard to see what I...
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...
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...
Rhumb Lines: Seamanship, Not Size, Is What Counts
Years ago, one of my first assignments as a sailing editor was to join the famous sailor and yacht designer Steve Dashew and his...
Rhumb Lines: The Bathtub Cockpit Concept
I often wonder what the Norwegian yacht designer Colin Archer would say about today’s performance cruising boats, with their open transoms rolling out the...
Rhumb Lines: Show Highlights from Annapolis
I’ve always enjoyed how the annual Annapolis Sailboat Show offers a glimpse of the future—or at least how gear and boat makers envision the...
Launching into the Modern Era
n early March, as the short austral summer was ending, I stood beneath a red-and-white striped lighthouse at the southern tip of South America....
The PS Power Subscriber
Another runner has made it! It’s always nice to get an email or letter from an appreciative reader letting me know they’ve escaped the...
Stay Safe this Spring
The past couple of months I’ve been engaged in an ongoing struggle to remove all the deck paint and primer from Opal, the 1971...
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...
Tayana 37: What You Should Know | Boat Review
Looking to buy a 35-40 foot sailboat? Considering a Tayana 37? See a Tayana 37 for sale? What are the pros and cons of...
