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Using Heat to Bend PVC Pipe
Over the decades, marine equipment has gone through a dramatic transformation as plastics have steadily crept into our onboard lives. In this first in...
PS Advisor: Backing Plate and Self-tapping Screw Tips
Athreaded backing plate is a common approach to eliminating nuts in through bolts. We’ve used threaded backing plates for mounting jammers to thin-walled spars...
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...
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...
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...
High Capacity Electric Bilge Pump Test
Next to hull integrity, bilge pumps are a vessels first-and often only-line of defense against sinking. Not only do they serve to clear incidental...
Practical Sailor Tests Electric-Flush Marine Toilets
1)]Look for a review of top-of-the line residential style toilets in next month's issue of Practical Sailor.Note to Testers: Sports Section Not RequiredThe Modern-day...
PS Advisor: Plumbing a Multi-pump Bilge
Your September 2010 issue had a great article on electric bilge pumps. My Pearson 424 ketch has a bilge sump that has to be...
Bilge Pump Installation and Maintenance Tips
The best bilge pump in the world wont keep your boat dry if its not properly installed and maintained. While bilge pump installations are...
Marine Systems Standouts
Practical Sailor spent much of the last 12 months testing marine-systems products—flushing toilets loaded with faux poo and cycling bilge pumps till they would...
