Blog Detail
My Boat Works
http://www.my-boat-works.com/blog
Free professional boat repair and seamanship advice
- Added on: Oct 14th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Jerr Dunlap
- Listed in: Outdoor Recreation Education
- Tags: repair Free boat sailing advice professional
Recent Posts
Anchoring Part 16: Use Navigational Aids to Check Your Position
Once anchored, here’s how to tell if you’re dug-in safely or if you’re slowly dragging. If the weather’s rough, it’s a great comfort to be able to check your position and know you’re safe or that you need to re-an...
Anchoring Part 15: Quietly at Anchor – The Pleasures of Stability
Here are techniques I use to stabilize boats at anchor, as well as a framework for understanding why and how boats rock and roll at anchor. Yawing and sailing at anchor are dealt with in the Rough Weather Anchoring article....
Anchoring Part 14: Quietly at Anchor – Choosing a Snug Spot
Here are methods I’ve used for years that work great for finding that sweet patch of calm water to keep your boat steady and quietly at anchor – Often when boats around are rocking and swinging wildly....
Anchoring Part 13: How To Get The Lay of the Land
How to quickly and literally get a lay of the land under water, in your anchorage....
Nearly Frictionless Woodworking: Surface Drag
Why friction on woodworking surfaces is not only a drag but dangerous, as well as how to prevent working surface friction, increase your confidence in your woodworking safety and bring a ton of fun back to your woodworking....
Don’t Cook With Alcohol!
Alcohol!?!?! Eek! Run away! Run away! Here are my reasons for not having an alcohol stove: 1) The pressured alcohol WILL leak at some point. 2) Flames are invisible, so firefighting is dangerous and uncertain, at best. 3) Wood alcohol fumes are highl...
