All At Sea Editorial by
Andy Schell
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What to Do When Your Engine Breaks Down
Arcturus, my 35-foot yawl, wasn't two days out of Ft. Lauderdale when smoke poured out of the companionway accompanied by the awful smell of an electrical meltdown.
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Maintaining Your Brightwork with Good Old Spar Varnish
The one upgrade that we yet hadn't completed was the most obvious. Like many older boats, ours had a lot of wood that needed refinishing. There was a lot of old Cetol and a lot of scraping ahead.
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Investment and Maintenance of Onboard Watermakers Part 3
We examine the initial investment, installation and long-term maintenance involved in a typical sea-going desalinization unit.
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On Board Watermakers Part 2
Examines the technical aspects of producing water onboard, unit choices and power consumption.
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Should You Get an On Board Watermaker
Though oft considered high-tech in the cruising world, current technology that allows us to produce potable water from the ocean has been around for some 40 years.
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Caribbean 1500 Cruising Rally Launches Event to Bahamas
The inauguration Caribbean 1500 jaunt from the Chesapeake to the Bahamas, 1000 miles and sailed it in only five days.
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A Wrong-Way Hurricane and Offshore Rigging Repairs
My dad was sailing a 46' Gran Soleil sloop from Annapolis to Tortola, one week out and 300 miles from anywhere and heard the news of a wrong-way, late-season hurricane
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How NOT to Clear Customs and Immigration
After three hours, I'd finally resigned myself to the fact that I would be spending the night in a Grenadian prison.
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Teenage Crew Learns Lessons in Self Sufficiency
It was about Day 22 of the sail-training program I was running this past summer, and the boatload full of eager high-schoolers from around the world all were anticipating our next landfall
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The Importance of Celestial Navigation
Just as Stephen Hawking unlocked the mysteries of the heavens in his “The Universe in a Nutshell,” so does Schlereth in “Celestial in a Nutshell.” Schlereth lifts the fog of celestial, de-mystifying the art in surprisingly
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Anchoring Under Sail
“To think that a lot of people consider it very difficult to enter a harbor without an engine…it depends on the harbor, of course, but if they would only try it, perhaps they would never again press the starter.“
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Cool for Cats - Sail Trim Tips for Cruising Catamarans
Off the wind, catamarans are rocket ships, which I quickly learned when Beluga, our 46’ F.P. Bahia, surfed down the long swell
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