Safety & Seamanship

At present, the masks that are certified to provide reliable protection against COVID-19 (minimum rating N95) are in short supply, so we have to...

Seldom does one size fit all, and the same goes for whether or not one type of life jacket can meet all lifesaving needs. The...

The Valiant 40 on the cover of this month’s issue belongs to longtime contributor the late Patrick Childress and his wife Rebecca. Patrick was...

As a longtime multihull sailor I’m often told that it must be wonderful to anchor wherever I want and tuck into the smallest of...

A deep, ballasted keel does a lot of good things. It lowers the center of gravity, provides lift to windward, and stabilizes the boat....

This summer is shaping up to be a strange one—a pandemic moving through the land and an economy reeling from its strains. And now...

Let’s take away all the boats. Not the ships engaged in essential commerce, not the barges hauling goods, not the net boats catching fish....

Editor’s note: Our recent article on marine insurance (see “Consequential DamageCoverage,” PS Jan. 2020) prompted many questions from readers regarding insurance for older boats. For answers, we...

With so many conveniences aboard the modern cruising boat, it’s easy to forget that the bare essentials required to get us from here to...

Last October, PS Editor Darrell Nicholson wrote about the importance of checklists and his inbox was inundated with mail from sailors who shared their own lists. Here are two lists I use when sailing my Corsair F-24: the pre-departure list, and the return to home list. Neither list is meant to be exhaustive-but perhaps it is enough to think about as you craft your own.