All of us like cruising far more than maintenance, but neglect is an expensive course to follow. As the promise...
With a quiet but definite thump, the keel touches bottom. My husband peers at me over the spiderweb of ropes...
We get asked a lot of questions, but the one we get the most is some variant of, “Can you...
A good sailor hates loose gear, be it rope, boat hook or bobby pins,” writes Hervey Garrett Smith, author of...
For many cruisers, self-reliance is a mantra that applies to system repairs, food supplies and health care. If you ain’t...
Recommissioning, sometimes called “summerizing” (in contrast to “winterizing”), is the essential second stage to the two-part process of laying-up a...