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Jeanneau’s New Rule Breaking Sailboat – Sun Odyssey 350 Boat Review
Are you interested in a 30 to 36 foot cruising sailboat? Shopping for a Jeanneau Sailboat? The new Sun Odyssey 350 replaces the wildly successful Sun Odyssey 349 and has a slew of new innovative features for a cruising sailboat like low friction rings and Dyneema lines as well as sloped side decks a...
A Fiberglass Cleaning Boat Hack You Have To Try!
Do you have scratches and scuffs on your boat? Having trouble cleaning fiberglass? This week Marc shows us a Boat Hack that really works on stubborn fiberglass discoloration and scuffs to help you with your boat maintenance. Practical Sailor is your trusted resource for reviews of sailboats and sai...
X Yachts X43 Sailboat Tour
Are you interested in a 40 foot performance cruising sailboat? Looking for an X-Yachts sailboat? Join us today for a sailboat tour of the new X-Yachts X43. A 43.5 foot monohull fast luxury cruising sailboat we got to see at the Newport Boat Show. She features three keel options, two or three cabin l...
Truth About Grease – Boat Maintenance Must Do Tips
Sailboat Maintenance is a big topic so we're breaking it down into bite sized boat maintenance tips in our Everything You Need to Know series showing you how to take care of your sailboat. This week, Grease. From lithium to calcium sulfonate grease, rebuilding winches and greasing sail tracks t...
First Look at the Brand New Catalina 316
Are you interested in a 30 foot cruising sailboat? We have a first look at the brand new redesigned Catalina 316 from the six series of boats Catalina is launching at the 2024 Annapolis Sailboat Show. We compare it to the Catalina 30 from the past and talk about the new keel, new steering pedestal, ...
Can A Lithium Battery Fry Your Alternator?
Are you interested in putting lithium batteries in your sailboat? Understanding how lithium batteries work and charge is important because lithium can damage your alternator or sensitive electronics like chart plotters, or cause a lithium fire. How to charge lithium is a big question because your sa...
A Sailboat Tour of the Exquisite Little Harbor 63 Ketch
Are you interested in a sailboat tour of an ocean crossing blue water sailboat lush with teak and fine woodwork? Join us as we take a boat tour of this Little Harbor 63 by Ted Hood. Karuna is a 63 foot ketch sailboat with Yanmar diesel engine, in mast furling sails, a bow thruster, water maker, and ...
Dock and Anchor Lines – Polyester or Nylon?
Practical Sailor article: Dock and mooring lines can be made out of different kinds of rope. This week we look at nylon, polyester double and eight braid, and discuss anchor and mooring snubbers. Are you interested in learning about which rope line to use while anchoring or mooring your boat? Chim...
The Performance Sailboat from Island Packet: Blue Jacket 40 Boat Review
Did you know that Island Packet got together with Tim Jackett from Tartan Yachts and C&C to build a performance oriented cruising sailboat called the Blue Jacket 40? This 40 foot performance cruising sailboat comes with s shallow draft or deep draft keel, self tacking jib boom, and a sailboat ca...
Top 3 Winter Boat HACKS!
Are you getting your boat ready for winter? Worried about winterization of your sailboat? This week we cover our top three winter boat hacks including boat oil changes, fuel tank preparation for freezing temperatures, and antifreeze to winterize your boat engine and water system. Practical Sailor i...
Cabo Rico 34 Boat Review
Are you interested in a 30 to 35 foot cruising sailboat? Looking at buying a Cabo Rico 38 or 34? This week we dive into the Cabo Rico 34. The history of Cabo Rico yachts and the build quality that make them an excellent blue water cruising sailboat. We also compare prices on the Cabo Rico 38 and 34 ...
Super Shallow Draft Sailboat: The Leeboard Sharpie
Are you interested in a very shallow draft sailboat? Building your own sailboat and interested in cool sailboat designs? The leeboard Sharpie is a great design dating back hundreds of years in sailing history used for East Coast Oyster fishing and turned into a shallow draft cruising sailboat. Prac...
Hans Christian 41T – Boat Review
Are you interested in a Hans Christian sailboat like the 41T? Shopping for a Hans Christian sailboat? This week we take a boat tour and boat review of the Hans Christian 41T and discuss the history of the boat, it’s design, the keel choice and interior layout options in our review of the Hans Christ...
Seven dead after superyacht sinks off Sicily. Was the crew at fault? Or the design?
Superyacht Bayesian sank off the coast of Italy leaving a lot of questions. Was it her retractable keel being up and stowed? The freak weather event – a tornado, waterspout, or down burst? Was the crew to blame or the designers? The tallest aluminum mast in the word may have played a role. A naval a...
What’s the Best Sailboats for Beginners?
Are you interested in learning how to sail? What is the best sailboat to learn to sail on? Which boat should you buy first? If a cheap sailboat is the goal, this must watch video describes different options for your first sailboat including sailing dinghies, smaller training sailboats, and larger bo...
Why Does A Sailboat Keel Fall Off?
Can the keel fall off a sailboat? Today we look at sailboat accidents and groundings leading to keel failure of bolt on keels and discuss the pros and cons of encapsulated keels versus bolt on keels siting keel failures like Cheeky Rafiki, the Beneteau 40.7 that tragically lost her keel in one of th...
The Perfect Family Sailboat! Hunter 27-2 – Boat Review
Are you interested in a small family sailboat? Want to take your kids sailing on a fun and comfortable sailboat you can tow home? This trailerable sailboat is the perfect trailer sailor to sail around the lake, take sailboat racing, and is a very cheap sailboat to own. The sailboat ownership cost of...
Pettit EZ-Poxy – How to Paint a Boat
Would you like to know how to paint a sailboat? Stuck with all the information overload about sailboat paint? Roilling and tipping? Dewaxing… two part polyurethane… thinner… Epiphanes, Pettit, Interlux Toplac and Brightside. The options are endless. This week we review the use of Petit EZ-Poxy to pa...
The Boat From True Spirit – Sparkman & Stephens
True Spirit is a 2023 Australian biographical drama film directed by Sarah Spillane and written by Spillane, Cathy Randall, and Rebecca Banner. The film is based on the 2010 memoir of the same name by Jessica Watson, played by Teagan Croft. She is an Australian sailor who was awarded the Order of Au...
Top 5 Boat Hacks – Boat Maintenance Tips and Tricks
Sailboat maintenance is always easier with some boat hacks, tips and tricks! This week we talk boat electrical and battery charging systems, deck core rot fixes and penetrating epoxy to fix your sailboat, boat toilet additives to cut the smell down in the head, boat plastics like starboard for your ...
Pearson 30 Sailboat Review
Are you interested in a racer cruiser sailboat like the Pearson 30? This week we dive into a boat review of the Pearson 30, a sub $10,000 sailboat that's a well made boat, comfortable, and very fast in sailboat racing at a club level. We look at the problems with this Pearson sailboat and what ...
How To Change Your Sailboat Engine Mounts
Read the FULL Article Here - Do you have engine vibration on your sailboat? Are you worried about prop shaft alignment or vibration? Checking, inspecting, and changing your sailboat engine mounts is routine boat maintenance and installing new engine mounds is great piece of mind. Today Marc shows ...
The Loss of Sailing Vessel Solution in the North Atlantic
Full Article available at www.bermudarace.com A sinking sailboat, an engine that won’t start, a crew member injured. Captain Bacon on sailing vessel Solution was faced with an impossible decision after the 2024 Newport Bermuda Race. The US Coast Guard responded with the HC-144 and MH-60 rescue airc...