tips & techniques

Get the Best From the Wind Hawk Wind Indicator A masthead wind indicator is now standard equipment on most yachts. A quality example is remarkably stable, and apart from a natural-born adventurer of my acquaintance who bent his during some unpleasantness in a famous English ...read more

Plotting Sheets Whether you’re studying for an Ocean Navigator certificate or just interested in celestial navigation, you’ll be needing plotting sheets. The scale of oceanic paper charts against the width of a pencil point precludes accurate plotting on them, so blank charts ...read more

Prepping for Landing It’s easy to imagine that all neat berthing maneuvers result from smart boathandling. It’s a sorry business if the person at the blunt end stuffs the bow into the woodwork at 3 knots. However, even if the skipper slides her in like a pro, it doesn’t end ...read more