Nine Autopilot Usage Tips and Hacks
Reading Time: 12 minutesSo far in this series we have got deep into the technical weeds of how autopilots work, and how to make them work better. Now let’s look at some simple tips, several of which will help with vane gears too.
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AAC Is 20 Years Old
Reading Time: 6 minutesThe story of our two decades of writing and publishing about offshore voyaging.
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Liferafts For Cruisers—Purchase Criteria
Reading Time: 8 minutesIt’s tempting to just shop for the “best” liferaft, but it’s way smarter to think first about why we are buying one.
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John’s Tips Tricks and Thoughts—March-April
Reading Time: 2 minutesI got so absorbed in writing the recent Adventure 40 and autopilot articles, as well as winding up the two-winter refit on our new-to-us J/109—tell-all coming soon—that I completely forgot the March heads-up about new Tips Tricks and Thoughts posts. Anyway, over the past two months I have written 25
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How To Tune An Autopilot To Steer Better—Part 2
Reading Time: 10 minutesHow to set gain, counter-rudder, and trim to make an offshore passage faster and more comfortable, and save battery, too.
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Adventure 40 Deck-2.0
Reading Time: 13 minutesMaxime and Vincent have been hard at work over the last couple of months refining and improving the Adventure 40 deck design. Let’s take a look.
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How To Tune an Autopilot to Steer Better—Part 1
Reading Time: 12 minutesWe can make a huge difference to comfort, speed, and electrical use by manually adjusting our autopilots.
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Autopilot Buyer’s Guide
Reading Time: 14 minutesHow smart and expensive an autopilot do we need for offshore shorthanded cruising? Lots of options. Here’s how to make sure we don’t select the wrong one and that we get what we paid for.
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Storm Strategy—Fore-Reaching
Reading Time: 11 minutesComparing fore-reaching to heaving-to and streaming a Jordon Series Drogue as storm survival strategies as well as equipment and techniques required for safe fore-reaching.
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Eight Steps to Get Ready For Lithium Batteries
Reading Time: 5 minutesMany cruisers have already made the jump to lithium. But what if we would like to delay the considerable expense and complications of lithium, but want to be ready at a later date?
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John’s Tips Tricks and Thoughts—February
Reading Time: 2 minutesFifteen posts this month and some thoughts on how this new site feature is evolving, and a request for your views on that.
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Q and A—Trucking a Boat
Reading Time: 6 minutesTrucking a boat can be a viable, and in some cases less expensive option than sailing her, but what are the pitfalls?
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A Real World Tested Tool Kit For Cruisers
Reading Time: 9 minutesA recommended kit that weighs less than sixty pounds and tool budgets for coastal and offshore cruising, as well as refits.
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Five Boat Lift Usage Tips
Reading Time: 10 minutesA hair-raising account of a boat-lift collapse and tips to reduce the chances of this happening to us.
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Adventure 40 Reveal—Salon and Forward Cabin
Reading Time: 12 minutesIn the last interior arrangement reveal article we covered the galley, head, and storage areas aft. Now let’s move forward into the salon and forward cabin.
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