Start your weekend with our Friday Five for January 15. This is what caught our eye this week: Build Your Own Boot Dryer While hard water is best left for the ice-boaters, there is never any shortage of projects to keep sailors connected with their boats and to stay active through winter — like building […]
Start your weekend with our Friday Five for January 8. This is what caught our eye this week: The worst boat I ever surveyed Jam jars for nav lights and kerb stones for ballast! Mike Coates recalls his astonishment when asked to survey a new motorboat. READ MORE Hose Clamp Smarts Here’s a wild little […]
Start your weekend with our Friday Five for December 18. This is what caught our eye this week: Excellent adventures – why keeping a logbook is for more than just navigation I’ve been keeping a log almost as long as I’ve had my Offshore 8M Karima. The first entry was on 27 July 2005, heading […]
Start your weekend with our Friday Five for December 11. This is what caught our eye this week: Toy of the month: YuJet electric surfboard promises endless surfing without waves Surfing has to be the coolest sport in the world. The only problem is the lack of good surfing locations, especially ones with big waves, […]
Start your weekend with our Friday Five for October 23. This is what caught our eye this week: Defender Product Spotlight: Lewmar Heavy Duty Inflatable Yacht Fenders Compact storage, welded seams, and a spring-activated, quarter-turn inflation valve are key features of this exceptional fender. READ MORE How do you deal with garbage? Cruising is rife […]
COVID-19 Update (October 9): Covid-19 Update: At this time, the Tollycraft Boating Club has cancelled the Hallowe’en Mini, North Sound Mini, South Sound Mini Cruise, 2020 Rendezvous in Roche Harbor, Bell Harbor Mini Cruise, Kingston Mini Cruise and Log Boom events. Hallowe’en Mini (October 16-18, Port Orchard) The Hallowe’en Mini in Port Orchard is cancelled […]
Start your weekend with our Friday Five for October 9. This is what caught our eye this week: Review: Simrad NSO EVO3S Simrad’s NSO Evo3S has a fast six-core processor and a touchscreen user interface. READ MORE Do-It-Yourself Chafe Protection In this post, we’ll revisit one solution that comes up again and again anytime we […]
Start this first autumn weekend with our Friday Five for September 25. This is what caught our eye this week: Why Raymarine Lighthouse Charts is a serious alternative to Navionics Raymarine is cutting its reliance on Navionics and C-Map by launching its own brand of electronic charts. Called Lighthouse Charts, they are based on existing […]
Start this last weekend of summer with our Friday Five for September 18. This is what caught our eye this week: The Great Dinghy Debate Dinghies are the Rodney Dangerfields of cruising. They get no respect, or at least not as much as they deserve. The little boat that will see nearly as many sea […]
Start this summer weekend with our Friday Five for August 21. This is what caught our eye this week: Garmin outage: how safe is online navigation? July’s Garmin outage left Navionics customers unable to access online services including downloading charts. Yachting Monthly spoke with the cyber security firm Red Sky Alliance about the safety of […]