Cruising sailors with roller furling booms or roller furling masts who want their furling systems to be more reliable and easier to handle should replace their worn-out mainsails with a UK Sailmakers X-Drive sail. Compared to Dacron sails, X-Drive sails…
As aviation crash investigators know, airplane crashes are seldom the result of one mistake; they are usually the result of a cascade of events. When the wheels start to fall off, you need to minimize more problems. Here’s a video…
View fullsize Congratulations to Geoff Bishop and his crew on his King 40 CHECKMATE for being crowned the 2019 Western Australian IRC State Champ. After sailing the first year mostly with the sails that came with the boat, CHECKMATE added…
A while ago, we posted an instructional video on the letterbox spinnaker takedown, which is the safest and most controllable way to douse a spinnaker at sea. In the original video, you saw a number of letterbox maneuvers from onboard…
View fullsize By Adam Loory Facebook sent me a reminder of this sequence of photos from a post many years ago. It was back in the day that I sailed my Express 37 in a very competitive PHRF group that…