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Cal 2-46: A Venerable Lapworth Design Brought Up to Date

What kind of blue-water cruising sailboat should you consider when your thoughts turn offshore? We posed that question to Practical Sailor readers, and Puget...

Breaking Point: What Can Go Wrong With Your Yanmar?

If you want to know more about the little Yanmar chugging away in your sailboat, it helps to learn about this iconic engine maker’s...

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Seagoing Polymers Repairing Plastic Parts Safe Cockpit Cushions Secure Footing Trampoline Tips Coatings for Tramps

Rhumb Lines: Recognize the Limits of Modern Boat Plastics

I didn’t mean to buy an old wooden boat. At age 24, the 53-year-old Atkin ketch was what I could afford. But there was...

Mailport: Aftermarket exhaust; window replacement; epoxy blurp

AFTERMARKET EXHAUST I have really appreciated the refit series from John Stone you’ve published (see “Rebuilding a Cape Dory 36,” PS November 2022). As someone beginning to...

Can We Trust Plastic Boat Parts?

When a plastic part on our boat breaks, we often deem it “damn cheap plastic” and toss it away. In some parts of the...

Repairing Molded Plastics

Before looking for the right glue, understand why the part broke. Did it succumb to a combination of UV damage, creep (distortion), fatigue, and...

Choosing and Securing Seat Cushions

Loose cockpit cushions can blow away in a good breeze or slide off when sharply heeled. A sliding cushion is a nuisance at the...

The Pros and Cons of Cockpit Foot Braces

The sensation that you are about to slide to leeward is familiar to most small-boat sailors. But that slip-sliding-away feeling isn’t reserved to small...

The Everlasting Multihull Trampoline

Multihulls commonly have net or webbing trampolines that cover the large areas of deck. The trampoline is vital to both performance and seaworthiness. It...

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...