Sail Delmarva

Rev. 11-16-2013 Ever since I stretch the hulls from 32' to 34' I guess I've been on a performance quest. I'm not a racer b...

Many sailors are justifiably terrified of climbing the mast. Given that most have no background in climbing and roped access, they're sm...

In order to listen to a movie without inverter hum (I've got Bose speakers but my inverter puts out square wave power) I decided to plug...

Perhaps everyone but me knew this trick already, but here goes.... Often forums, blogs, state government sites and even many commercial si...

Cover, obviously.... This boat is a poster child, the upper portion of the enclosure covered for a time, then niether part covered. The lo...

rev. 9-18-2013 Cruising cats are not generally weatherly, and the PDQ 32 is no exception. But encouraged by the fact that some fine tunin...

You'd think reeving a block would be second nature to an old sailor, but I'm always forgetting how to reeve a 6-part tackle at 90 de...

You would think after 30 years of messing about in boats I would know what basic terms mean. But it seems they mean different things to diff...

Rev 10-29-2013, rev. 7-23-2024 I'm still working my way through this topic--I think many cat sailors are--so this post is a work in pr...