Sail Delmarva

 I'm going to come back to this topic. Placeholder.  Platino preventer rigging. Obviously, the leverage stinks and fatalities resulted. ...

 The Ladder. My 30-year old Mastmate is easy and fast to climb if: Roll-up with the steps folded down. In this way they fall open nicely whe...

 ... Should corn go into fuel or food? In the past, since I didn't favor ethanol in gasoline for environmental and operational reasons, ...

 Let's see... 2 trips per month 12 months About 1 quarts per trip ... Equals 6 gallons per year. At $5.00 per gallon, about 30 gallons p...

On vaccines and masks:   A great flood happened. A man was forced to climb to the second floor. He was looking out the window and a canoe p...

I enjoy the simplicity of trolling for big rockfish with a cuban yo-yo . I can keep the sinkers and long leaders rigged, they take no space ...

 A sailboat needs to show red and green sidelights when sailing (no all-around white, as when motoring). Boats under 20 meters can substitut...

 Late Summer I hung 7 test panels with 20 paints from a dock in the Mid-Chesapeake Bay (Deale, MD) as part of a Practical Sailor project. Pr...

What lights do you show when lying to a drogue or sea anchor? You are not anchored. You are not underway in the standard sense, since you ca...

 According to Don Jordan, the max load on a JSD (Jordan Series Drogue), during that worst survivable hit, is about the displacement of a mon...