When I singlehanded my first boat, a Kinney designed Pipe Dream, from BC to New Zealand , a boat with a short keel with attached rudder, I found...
When a single keel sailing hull goes aground on a flat beach , initially, the only two points that touch are the bottom of the keel and the turn...
I have just been helping a freind with his Group Finot designed "Reve de Antilles" 38 footer built by a Finot "licensed "builder. What an...
A friend recently bought a boat from Discovery Harbour Yacht sales in Campbell River BC. When she got her boat home, the battery charger , which I...
A friend is looking at a boat with rotten balsa core in the decks. How do you experts in fibreglass deal with it? Could one wash the rotten core...
In recent years, a couple of boats, while motoring alongside BC Ferries, suddenly did a 90 degree turn into the path of the ferries ,killing all...
I saw an interesting tip in Sail Magazine yesterday. It said that fabric softener Calgon is very effective in killing diesel smell. I haven't...
