Take the Poll — What’s the Ideal Tender Outboard?
Posted on August 12th 2010 - Tom Tripp
If you could have the perfect outboard for your dinghy or tender, what would it be? A diesel perhaps, because you’re already carrying hundreds or ...
THUNDER AND LIGHTNING: How Far Away?
Posted on August 11th 2010 - Charles Doane
This is my Omega Speedmaster, a fancy mechanical chronograph that my wife gave me for my birthday a couple of years back. It is, in ...
THE BOY, ME AND THE CAT: The First Snow Birds
Posted on August 11th 2010 - Charles Doane
These days voyaging south down the U.S. East Coast via the Intracoastal Waterway is so commonplace as to be cliché. Literally thousands of cruisers now ...
Furuno’s New WS200 Brings NMEA 2000 Ultrasonic Weather to Your Helm
Posted on August 10th 2010 - Tom Tripp
Actually, it brings ultrasonic weather data to your helm. Are we straight with that now? Okay. The basic ultrasonic instrument has been around for several ...
2010 DOWNEAST CHALLENGE Results: Meet the Jeanneau One Design 35
Posted on August 6th 2010 - Charles Doane
You may have noticed I haven't been in a huge rush to blog about the offshore race in which Team SEMOSA competed the week before ...
LAURA DEKKER: Not Just Another Teen Record-Breaker?
Posted on August 5th 2010 - Charles Doane
Here we go again. It's getting so you can write these "youngest solo circumnavigator" stories just by filling in some blanks on a form. Except ...
GAMAGE DAMAGE CONTROL: A Temporary Repair
Posted on August 3rd 2010 - Charles Doane
Having massaged the Insurance Gods to ensure the financing of more permanent solutions, I set out during my recent Solo Mini Cruise of Casco Bay ...
FIBERGLASS BOATBUILDING: Creating a Laminate
Posted on July 28th 2010 - Charles Doane
In my last missive on this subject I introduced the concept of building fiberglass boats in female molds, just like the one pictured here. Now ...
Topaz Sailing Dinghy
Posted on July 27th 2010 - Zuzana Prochazka
Topaz sailing dinghy now dubbed as “Boat in a Box” can be shipped anywhere.
If you haven’t checked out the Topaz sailing dinghy, you now have ...
Sunreef’s Largest Superyacht Splashes
Posted on July 26th 2010 - Diane Byrne
When Sunreef Yachts announced the Sunreef 114 in December 2008, it had just started construction on its first megayacht, the 102 Double Deck. Now Che, ...