Recommissioning, sometimes called “summerizing” (in contrast to “winterizing”), is the essential second stage to the two-part process of laying-up a...
Whether you are 10 miles, 100 miles or a few thousand miles from shore, if things go wrong and you...
In this age of electronic depth sounders, you may think you need a leadline as much as you need a...
A good sailor hates loose gear, be it rope, boat hook or bobby pins,” writes Hervey Garrett Smith, author of...
When my husband Evan and I were buying our first boat, a then 20-year-old Fortune 30, we sat down at...
With a quiet but definite thump, the keel touches bottom. My husband peers at me over the spiderweb of ropes...