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Farewell to Skip Allan’s S/V Wildflower

Anyone who has ever run before a gale knows how exhilarating it can be. On the right boat, in the right conditions, the adrenaline...

SteriPEN Portable UV Water Purifier

Cruising sailors who venture to the fringes of civilization, or to attractive but perhaps unsanitary foreign ports, or even to unfamiliar marinas, often have...

All Plywood Not Created Equal

I was wondering if you folks have ever the various kinds of plywood for use in marine environments. Needing to replace a bulkhead, I...

Practical Sailor Puts Monster-Sized Coolers Through a Melt Down

In a sailboat, "refrigeration" is a somewhat vague term. It could refer to a built-in, compressor-driven system designed to cool food and drinks as...

Practical Sailor Searches for The Best Gelcoat Restorer

Application was hampered by the open-mouth bottle, which made it hard to pour controlled amounts onto the applicator. The product does not come with...

The SPOT Personal Messenger Lets You Communicate From the Far Reaches of the World

Water Tests: Testers dropped the SPOT into a freshwater pool 10 times, and each time, it floated at a roughly 30-degree angle with the...

Practical Sailor Tests 12 sets of Performance Sailing Gloves

2)]Like several other models tested, West Marine’s glove provides a double layer of Amara on the heel, but that double layering doesn’t extend as...

Medical Kits for Offshore Cruising

In Practical Sailor’s ongoing test series on seagoing medical kits, the search now leads to what we regard as Group III medical kits, those...

Electric and Hybrid Propulsion for Sailboats

How soon will electric auxiliary propulsion be available to everyman? That depends on whom you ask. Opinions differ widely not just on what type...

Mailport: 09/08

Re-Arming A PFDIn your June 2008 article "Comparing the Latest Inflatable PFDs," you mention at the beginning of the article that Personal Flotation Devices (PFDs)...