Not Your Mom’s Kitchen
"Tell me what you eat and I shall tell you what you are." That was the gastronome Brillat-Savarin, and his phrase eventually morphed into...
Chandlery: 02/01/03
Serious Wheels
JHRG Supreme Protector Gear
About a year ago (how times flies) a PS reader named Dan Nathan e-mailed to offer some ideas about chafe guards, and we...
Sea Stories
Here's a theory of existence: When you go Aloft, they check you for stories. They want to know what you've tried, noticed, and learned...
Gear of the Year:Top 10 Products of 2002
Here we honor a few of the really stellar performers. At one end of the scale there are the low-cost but utterly useful oil-absorbant sheets from 3M, and at the other end, sophisticated Nobeltec nav software and ITT night-vision equipment.
The Tao, the Hsü, Whatever
It's possible to forget why you sail -especially, believe it or not, if you deal with sailing for a living. I've managed to forget...
Sailor Soap
Lynn Dellapasta, president of Gabriel Skin Care Distributors, went sailing with her brother in Florida, and was surprised to learn that saltwater sailors typically...
Cockpit Seats
How can you spend a small fortune on a boat only to discover that—from bow to stern, rail to rail, on deck or below—there's not a single comfortable seat in which to relax?
Seat of Power
Welp, that's 4,000 miles on the exercise bike that I hooked to an alternator because I got tired of wasting so much food...
Time Check
The other day I was driving along I-95 just west of New Haven (on a stretch once described to me by a long-haul trucker...










































