How To Tune An Autopilot To Steer Better—Part 2
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How to set gain, counter-rudder, and trim to make an offshore passage faster and more comfortable, and save battery, too.
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Finding and Buying a Dream
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Now Colin and Louise have found and bought their new boat, the real work begins…but they got the basics right. Here’s how.
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Adventure 40 Deck-2.0
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Maxime 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 minutes
We 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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How 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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Comparing 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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Colin and Louise Have a New Boat
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After two years of diligent searching, one of the most knowledgeable boat buyers anywhere has selected his next offshore cruising boat, and an attainable one, too.
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Eight Steps to Get Ready For Lithium Batteries
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Many 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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Trucking 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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A 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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A 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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In 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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Balancing Battery Bank and Solar Array Size
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It’s easy to assume that the bigger the battery bank and solar array the better, but there’s a much better way to optimize the system for a live-aboard cruising boat, which will save a bundle of money too.
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Going Up The Mast at Sea
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Up 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
Reading Time: 8 minutes
With 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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