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How To Tune an Autopilot to Steer Better—Part 1
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Read more: How To Tune an Autopilot to Steer Better—Part 1We can make a huge difference to comfort, speed, and electrical use by manually adjusting our autopilots.
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Autopilot Buyer’s Guide
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Read more: Autopilot Buyer’s GuideHow 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
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Read more: Storm Strategy—Fore-ReachingComparing 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
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Read more: Eight Steps to Get Ready For Lithium BatteriesMany 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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Q and A—Trucking a Boat
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Read more: Q and A—Trucking a BoatTrucking 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
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Read more: A Real World Tested Tool Kit For CruisersA 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
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Read more: Five Boat Lift Usage TipsA 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
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Read more: Adventure 40 Reveal—Salon and Forward CabinIn 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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Going Up The Mast at Sea
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Read more: Going Up The Mast at SeaUp to now in this series we have been looking at going up the mast in sheltered water, but when we need to go up offshore everything gets hugely more difficult and risky. As usual, preparation is the key to safety and success.
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A Simple Way to Decide Between Lithium or Lead-Acid Batteries for a Cruising Boat
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Read more: A Simple Way to Decide Between Lithium or Lead-Acid Batteries for a Cruising BoatWith all the claims and counterclaims for the two chemistries, how on earth do we make the right decision? Good news, it’s not hard.
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Adventure 40 Reveal—Galley, Head, and Aft Storage
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Read more: Adventure 40 Reveal—Galley, Head, and Aft StorageA good galley, storage, and head layout are much of what makes an offshore live-aboard cruising sailboat great. The A40 design nails these requirements.
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Happy Holidays From Phyllis & John
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Read more: Happy Holidays From Phyllis & JohnThe world seems messed up, but people are back out cruising and there are other good things to focus on.
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Gear Leveling and Mounting Hack
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Read more: Gear Leveling and Mounting HackBoats are not square so it’s often necessary to mount gear at an angle and/or on a curved surface. Here’s the easy way to do that.
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Going Up The Mast—Four Dangerous But Common Mistakes
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Read more: Going Up The Mast—Four Dangerous But Common MistakesJohn highlights four more dangerous mistakes he has made and seen many others make too. With these mistakes fixed, he is now reasonable happy with his system.
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Give an AAC Membership For Christmas
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Read more: Give an AAC Membership For ChristmasStuck for a Christmas gift?
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How To Do Amateur Engineering¹
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Read more: How To Do Amateur Engineering¹From time to time we get a question asking us to opine on whether a modification to the boat or rig will be strong enough. Let’s look at that.
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All This and Sailing, Too
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Read more: All This and Sailing, TooJohn reviews Olin Stephens’ autobiography, just in time for holiday gift giving.
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Going Up The Mast—Our System
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Read more: Going Up The Mast—Our SystemAfter over 50 years of going up masts John shares the system he and Phyllis are now using as well as highlighting the many dangerous mistakes he has made over the years.
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Going Up The Mast—Fundamentals
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Read more: Going Up The Mast—FundamentalsThoughts on backup systems, fall arrest as against fall prevention, and gear recommendations for going up the mast.
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Adventure 40 Reveal—On Deck
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Read more: Adventure 40 Reveal—On DeckIn the last Adventure 40 article, I examined hull, cockpit and rig. Now let’s move out of the cockpit and go forward.
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Adventure 40 Reveal—Hull, Cockpit, and Rig
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Read more: Adventure 40 Reveal—Hull, Cockpit, and RigTen years after starting a project to create a safe, reliable and fast offshore cruising sailboat ready to go around the world, we have a design.
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In-Mast, In-Boom, or Slab Reefing —Performance, Cost and Safety
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Read more: In-Mast, In-Boom, or Slab Reefing —Performance, Cost and SafetyPart 2 of a buyer’s guide examining the trade-offs between the three ways to set, strike and furl a mainsail on an offshore cruising boat.
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In-Mast, In-Boom, or Slab Reefing—Convenience and Reliability
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Read more: In-Mast, In-Boom, or Slab Reefing—Convenience and ReliabilityPart 1 of buyer’s guide examining the trade-offs between the three ways to set, strike and furl a mainsail on an offshore cruising boat.
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In-Boom Roller Furling Demonstration Video
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Read more: In-Boom Roller Furling Demonstration VideoAn in-depth, narrated demonstration of hoisting, reefing, un-reefing and striking the mainsail with a LeasureFurl® in-boom system.
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Cross-Bank Battery Charging—DC/DC Chargers
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Read more: Cross-Bank Battery Charging—DC/DC ChargersCross-bank battery charging with DC/DC chargers or alternator-to-battery chargers.
