The Comfort Ratio Formula That Fails Offshore Sailors
Jamie Gifford pounded into the Sea of Cortez on a boat with a comfort ratio of 35.5 and learned what the formula cannot account for.
Jamie Gifford pounded into the Sea of Cortez on a boat with a comfort ratio of 35.5 and learned what the formula cannot account for.
The charter cat earned its reputation. Writing off every offshore cat because of it means leaving real capability behind.
Rockport Marine’s new 95-foot superyacht SY Ouzel completed sail trials on Penobscot Bay, reaching 13 knots under a 4,500-square-foot upwind sail plan in modest breeze.
Marine systems expert Nigel Calder is building an Outbound 44, collaborating with the yard on electrical and mechanical systems.
Steve Brodie acquired Pacific Seacraft in 2007 out of bankruptcy. The company now builds 31- to 61-footers in North Carolina.
My entire life, I tried to design and outfit the perfect cruising boat. By the fifth hull, I had learned a lot.
Design Trends/Part IV: Once a place to steer and trim — period — the contemporary cockpit has become a considered haven at rest and under way.
Cruising Club of America members put on their thinking caps to come up with environmentally friendly sailboat design recommendations.
Design ratios tell a story, but to get the real picture about a vessel, sail area, displacement, and ballast deserve a longer look.
Don Street takes a look back at Mark’s Ark, a light, easily rowed, flat-bottomed dinghy built for son. Web extra from our April 2012 issue.
Jamie Gifford pounded into the Sea of Cortez on a boat with a comfort ratio of 35.5 and learned what the formula cannot account for.
The charter cat earned its reputation. Writing off every offshore cat because of it means leaving real capability behind.
Rockport Marine’s new 95-foot superyacht SY Ouzel completed sail trials on Penobscot Bay, reaching 13 knots under a 4,500-square-foot upwind sail plan in modest breeze.
Marine systems expert Nigel Calder is building an Outbound 44, collaborating with the yard on electrical and mechanical systems.
Steve Brodie acquired Pacific Seacraft in 2007 out of bankruptcy. The company now builds 31- to 61-footers in North Carolina.
My entire life, I tried to design and outfit the perfect cruising boat. By the fifth hull, I had learned a lot.
Design Trends/Part IV: Once a place to steer and trim — period — the contemporary cockpit has become a considered haven at rest and under way.
Cruising Club of America members put on their thinking caps to come up with environmentally friendly sailboat design recommendations.
Design ratios tell a story, but to get the real picture about a vessel, sail area, displacement, and ballast deserve a longer look.
Don Street takes a look back at Mark’s Ark, a light, easily rowed, flat-bottomed dinghy built for son. Web extra from our April 2012 issue.
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