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Boats & Boatwork

First we choose a boat, then we spend the rest of our lives working on it.

This is the section of the site for these topics. Read about Choosing Boats or you can look up Performance Parameters for various boats and compare them.

How to Dock Without Jumping

July 26, 2020 2 Comments

There are two ways to do this depending on whether you are reversing into position or going forward to a halt. In each case the engine direction is in opposition to the placement of the line – for a reverse approach you use a forward spring loop, for a forward approach you use an aft […]

Filed Under: Blog, Boats & Boatwork Tagged With: docking, spring lines

Reading Barometers & A Storm Cheat Sheet

May 13, 2020 Leave a Comment

A quick reminder of some concepts around hurricanes plus a great handout on reading Barometers and Barometer Trends.

Filed Under: Nav/Comm Tagged With: barometer, hurricane

How to Get Weather Faxes, GRIBS and Email Offshore Using Your Radio

February 17, 2020 Leave a Comment

Getting Weather Faxes, weather GRIB files and sending and receiving email offshore is easy with an HF Radio, a Pactor Modem and Airmail Software. All the steps are shown with screenshots to make it easy for you.

Filed Under: Nav/Comm Tagged With: email, hf radio, pactor, weather GRIBS, weatherfax

Transferring Your MMSI from the Previous Owner

January 22, 2020 Leave a Comment

This article is an addendum to the earlier article on Registering Your Radios with the FCC. You may want to visit that article to fully understand what is being explained in this addendum. Many thanks to Susan Ruse for digging out this information about how the new owner can re-use the MMSI number that the […]

Filed Under: Nav/Comm Tagged With: fcc, mmsi

Hang up that Anchor: a DIY Fortress Anchor Mount

August 24, 2019 Leave a Comment

A fortress anchor shown mounted on the lifelines and toe rail.

Many of us sailors have an auxiliary fortress anchor either as a lunch hook or stern anchor and it’s handy to mount that on the stern someplace. There are commercially available fortress anchor mounts for this purpose. They cost $50 and up. However if you also add mud palms to the anchor to make it […]

Filed Under: Boats & Boatwork Tagged With: fortress-mount, mud-palms

Tips for Docking a Sailboat Safely and Confidently

April 18, 2019 8 Comments

Standing Turn is done by turning the wheel fully to the right and alternately reversing and going ahead as the turn is accomplished. This reverses your boat nearly in its place.

I grew up in a sailing family. I learned by example from my dad, then by experimentation after that. Since our early boats had no engines (nor did they go in reverse!) I did not learn about docking except how to sail a tiny light boat up to a dock and turn into the wind. […]

Filed Under: Blog, Boats & Boatwork

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