DIY Non-Skid Paint for Safer Footing
This is a guest post by Diego Flores, who took First Place in the 2016 Stingy Sailor DIY Project Contest with a boarding ladder project for his 1979 Catalina 22 Mirabel.
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Product Review: Little Giant Ladder
This is one piece of gear that I didn’t imagine would be so helpful but it has surprised me and become almost indispensable to me. At first glance, it doesn’t seem like much—a ladder to climb into the sailboat. But what’s great about this ladder is that it’s perfectly designed for the trailer sailor.
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Product Review: DrSails Repair Adhesive
This is a guest post written by Andrew Evans who is a highly-experienced, single-handed, offshore racer who hails from Victoria, British Columbia in Canada. He is also the author of Thoughts, Tips, Techniques & Tactics for Singlehanded Sailing. Since Andy shared with us how he likes to abuse his spinnaker in Lessons on Spinnaker Repair, he’s also a good tester for this interesting new product.
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2016 Stingy Sailor DIY Project Contest Winners
The entries for the inaugural Stingy Sailor DIY Project Contest have all been received, reviewed, and scored. The results were very close among the top entries. I have to say I’m impressed by your ingenuity and resourcefulness. All of the … Continue reading 2016 Stingy Sailor DIY Project Contest Winners
Two Ways to Rebuild Your Main Sheet Traveler Car
What condition is your main sheet traveler car in? Do the sheaves look like the picture below, chipped and cracked? After twenty, thirty, or forty years they can get brittle and weak. You don’t want them to break while you’re out on the water. The car wouldn’t come off the bar but there would be metal riding on metal, not a good thing.
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Add More Cockpit Seating With DIY Stern Perch Seats
Small sailboats don’t offer a lot of seating options in the cockpit. Four adults are about the maximum that will leave room for the skipper to work the helm. For casual cruising, that means everyone is in the cockpit, not hiking out on the coamings or side decks. Most sailboats will accommodate six in the cockpit while moored with the tiller out of the way but that can be crowded. You can give your guests more room or yourself more seating options with seats mounted on the stern pushpit.
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The Ultimate Sailing Websites Roundup
This is your favorite sailing website above all others, right? [wink] Actually, I’m not so arrogant as to believe that. I bet you have several others that you like to visit as much or more than this one. Continue reading “The Ultimate Sailing Websites Roundup”
Make This Simple, Low-Cost Tiller Lock
If you don’t have a locking mechanism on your tiller yet, don’t you sometimes wish you did? Then you could lock the tiller in place while you attend to other things for a few minutes or under the right conditions, relax and let the boat sail itself. A tiller lock is the next best thing to having a crew member or an autopilot take the helm for you. There are several tiller lock designs on the market and all of them do a reasonable job. But like everything else marine-related, they can be expensive for what they are.
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Book Review: The Annapolis Book of Seamanship
Most of the books that I have reviewed here on The $tingy Sailor that teach sailing skills have been compact handbooks that are useful to keep on board and cover the most basic of sailing skills. They aren’t intended to be encyclopedias of all sailing knowledge. This book is different.
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