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The Ultimate Guide to Caring for Clear Plastic

Our upcoming special report on marine plastics touches briefly on one of the most conspicuous plastics on many cruising boats--clear vinyl windows. On many...

The Best Boat Bucket You Can Buy

A recent test report reacquainted me with an age old problem, that has not yet fully been solved: How can one person, absent a...

F-24 Portlight Replacement

The windows on our Corsair F-24 trimaran were obviously damaged by UV radiation. All we could see through them were shapes of objects that...

In Search of the Snag-free Clew

Asmooth tack can be a thing of beauty, until a sheet hangs up and ruins it. A crew member must run forward to free...

The Bruce Anchor Sets Best

A goodly portion of the best years of every sailor’s life has been spent reading reports on, opinions regarding, claims for, studies of and...

Anchor Rode Report

Practical Sailor has been researching ground tackle for nearly 40 years, but in the controversial world of anchoring, there are always new firestorms to...

Anchor Trip-line Tricks

An anchor trip line is a stout line connected from the after end of the anchor fluke to a marker buoy so that the...

Pencil-Thin Anchor Rode

Would you trust a pencil-thin, anchor chain that touts greater strength than the locker-full of high-quality, 3/8-inch, galvanized short-link chain that youve counted on...

Preparing Your Boat for a Tropical Storm

The Atlantic Hurricane Season is off to a slow start this year, but we can expect activity to pick up in the months ahead...

Building a Better Boat Fender

My main problem with boat fenders is that they appear to violate the cardinal rule of cruising: any object you bring on the boat...