Anchoring Mooring

Mooring Anchors for Sensitive Seabeds

Practical Sailors home port of Sarasota, Fla., is becoming a test bed of sorts for mooring equipment. A contractor has begun work on a...

PS Advisor: Sea Anchor Sizing

   I read your interesting article, "Best Tested Sea Anchors," in the Feb. 1, 2005 issue. I applied the sizing tables from each of the...

Heavy Weather Sailing Gear

From sea anchors, drogues, and trysails to forereaching and heaving to, tactics and gear for surviving a storm at sea vary greatly. During a...

Mailport: 01/09

A Pitch for Ultimate SoleIn the December 2007 Practical Sailor Advisor, you requested feedback on Ultimate Sole, a product for coating cabin soles. Two...

Practical Sailors Heavyweight Anchors Test 2008

In a followup to the November 2008 shoreside testing of three large cruising anchors, this field report offers a glimpse of how the Manson...

Practical Sailor Names 13 Products Best Gear of the Year

Practical Sailor’s annual wrap-up of the year’s best sailing equipment looks at our favorite top-rated products from November 2007 to November 2008, including the...

Product Test: Heavyweight Cruising Anchors for Challenging Anchorages

One of a cruising anchors most important traits is its ability to set easily (and reset after a wind shift) in the widest possible...

Alarming Trend Shows Minimal-duty Windlasses Becoming More Common on Cruising Sailboats

There was a time when "built to last" was the bold theme that drove marine manufacturing. Cast bronze cleats, stem fittings, and other simple...

Gear for Battening Down Ahead of Storms

No one need lecture most sailboat owners about the profound dangers of hurricanes and tropical storms. That goes double for those whose boats are...

Three New Anchors Throw Their Weight Into the Practical Sailor Anchor Chronicles

While the original design carries only a one-year warranty, PS was glad to see that XYZ has given the Extreme anchors a lifetime warranty.Bottom...

40-Footer Boat Tours – With Some Big Surprises! | Boat Tour

Join us at the Miami Boat Show as we get on four 40-footers for boat tours! A Beneteau 37.1, Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 410, Dufour...