News Archive

The ten year sailing boat refit, and what to look for... By BoatUS/Sail-World Cruising, , 11:54 AM Sat 9 Feb 2013
Birthdays for people seem more relevant when you pass a new decade and have a 'big birthday'. Sailing boats are a little the same. Every ten years or so marks a time of change and renewal. Here BoatUS offers some hints about what you should look for every ten years: ...[more]

Sailing in the sun - good fun but deadly By Sail-World Cruising, 1:34 PM Mon 4 Feb 2013
Whether you sail just for an afternoon, escape to tropical climes to sail your holidays away, or have let the docklines go altogether to be full time cruising, the sun will sometimes be your greatest friend, but also can be you deadliest enemy. ...[more]

Hatch Fan wins sailing innovation award By Sail-World Cruising, 6:22 PM Fri 1 Feb 2013
A product which was made a new Product of the Week by Sail-World Cruising back in October has just won a 2013 Pittman Innovation Award. It is the Caframo Taku Hatch Fan. While wind scoops work wonderfully in a breeze in an anchorage, and some of the better ones even work to the wind in a marina, if there's no wind and you don't go to air-conditioning, this hatch fan could be your answer. ...[more]

Safety and your medical kit - what should you take? By Des Ryan, , 11:48 AM Tue 29 Jan 2013
The first time I did a first-aid course was just before I went for a three week sail, across the Pacific. The information was great, but I couldn't help thinking all the way through the course, 'But there will be no emergency number to call - I need to know what to do for a week, not for the first 30 minutes before the paramedic gets there. ...[more]

Capsized red hull easier to find - then why not? Here's why not By Des Ryan, , 3:00 PM Sun 27 Jan 2013
None of us wants to experience losing a keel and having to be rescued from our overturned boat in the middle of an ocean. While cruising yachts are very unlikely to lose a keel, a recent report suggested that hulls be painted red to make them easier to find, so why not? But that wasn't the end of the story... ...[more]

Britain's rescue volunteers: 8000 rescued, half from leisure craft By RNLI, , 6:56 AM Wed 23 Jan 2013
Leisure sailing boats world-wide went through an amazing explosion in numbers during the 20th Century and that explosion continues unabated in this century - but it is doubtful that this would have occurred if rescue facilities had not also increased dramatically. Britain's Royal National Lifesaving Institution (RNLI) have announced their numbers for 2012, with almost 8,000 people were rescued ...[more]

Coming to a head - issues of onboard toilets By Lee Mylchreest, 11:41 AM Sun 20 Jan 2013
If you want to seriously test whether someone gets seasick or not (or if you don't want them to come again), give them the job of clearing the blocked head while sailing. Heads, the nautical term for onboard toilets, can be one of the most vexed issues on a boat, depending on where you sail. ...[more]

Five top ways to remove stains from your boat By Karen & Jeffrey Siegel/Sail-World Cruising, 3:23 PM Fri 18 Jan 2013
Karen & Jeffrey Siegel run a website called ActiveCaptain. They have also been cruising for many years, with two dogs Dyna and Dylan (who really run the show) and know a thing or two about some of the practical aspects of cruising. Here are their useful tips about cleaning stains on a boat. As they said, 'We thought the new year was the perfect time to pick our five personal favourites.' ...[more]

The right life jacket with ALL the systems, but good only if worn By Lee Mylchreest, 9:05 AM Tue 15 Jan 2013
There's no doubt that getting several safety products into your life jacket is the key to having more options when in distress at sea. But none of the safety products are useful if you aren't actually wearing the jacket. So the other challenge for life jacket manufacturers is how to make it so comfortable you'll be happy to wear it ALL the time. The same applies to the MOB systems. ...[more]

Woman dies fending off boat from bridge piling By Sail-World Cruising round-up, 11:20 AM Mon 14 Jan 2013
One of the early lessons that aspiring sailors need to learn is the very real danger of using part of your body to fend off, mishandle a loaded winch, or any other task where one could lose a finger - or a life. This week, as if tragically exemplifying the lesson, a young woman has lost her life when she tried to fend off a bridge piling to prevent the boat she was travelling in colliding with it ...[more]

New, the world's smallest Personal Locator Beacon. By OCean Signal/Sail-World Cruising, , 12:48 PM Sat 12 Jan 2013
Have you been reluctant to invest in a Personal Locator Beacon (PLB) because you think 'it couldn't happen to me', or are they just too bulky and troublesome to worry about? The world's smallest PLB has just been introduced to the market, so you might try thinking again... ...[more]

Consumer Electronics Show votes Bad Elf the best GPS device By HomePort/Sail-World Cruising, , 6:31 AM Fri 11 Jan 2013
At the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada this week, the Bad Elf® GPS Pro (BE-GPS-2200) Direct Satellite GPS was named the Best GPS Device in the TechRadar Best of CES 2013 Awards presented by DTS. ...[more]

Keeping your fuel clean By Lee Mylchreest, , 6:35 AM Tue 8 Jan 2013
When you move out of home waters, one of the dangers of cruising is ending up with dirty fuel which clogs and stops your engine. Here we talk about some of the solutions: ...[more]

The argument for aluminium anodes: Time to be Green By Martin Flory, CMP Global, 7:45 AM Fri 4 Jan 2013
When it comes to making environmentally friendly choices, the tradeoff is not always paying more for something that doesn't work as well. Boat owners seeking a 'greener' sacrificial anode have an option that works better than the old, familiar zinc versions while costing less: aluminum anodes. ...[more]

Looking Back: Sail-World's Ten Top Products for 2012 By Nancy Knudsen, 3:34 PM Tue 1 Jan 2013
They were either new, innovative or very practical for the cruising sailor. Some were eminently affordable, others were expensive and may have to stay on the 'dream' list for a while. Sail-World Cruising looks back on 2012 to find the Ten Top Products of the year: ...[more]

Free Internet radio station plays only sailing and tropical music By Sail-World Cruising, , 7:31 AM Sun 30 Dec 2012
There are few songs that avid sailors like better than the cliched 'Sailing' by Rod Stewart. Now there's a radio station which plays nothing but sailing and tropical music, and it's free Internet radio, program directed by Steve Hall, who lives aboard his boat Endless Summer, an Allied Mistress 39. ...[more]

Cleaning your hull with ground glass By Lee Mylchreest, , 7:22 AM Sat 29 Dec 2012
The idea of blasting for removal of paint or dirt has been around for a long time, but the technology has improved radically over the last 50 years. If you are looking for a environmentally sound way of cleaning your hull without using chemicals or spending a VERY long time scraping, you need to consider the idea of dustless blasting, using ground glass. Amazing? Read on: ...[more]

Product of the Week: Pocket-sized Turbo Meter By Sail-World Cruising, , 6:59 AM Sat 15 Dec 2012
Particularly when sailing remotely, redundancy is the key to successful cruising. Here's a natty pocket-sized tool which will contribute to your overall redundancy. If your wind instruments become damaged - even a bird can do it - it can require a trip up the mast to correct it. That's not a good thing in heavy weather, when knowing the wind speed is critical. ...[more]

Product of the Week: Pocket-sized Turbo Meter By Sail-World Cruising, 6:28 AM Sat 15 Dec 2012
Particularly when sailing remotely, redundancy is the key to successful cruising. Here's a natty pocket-sized tool which will contribute to your overall redundancy. If your wind instruments become damaged - even a bird can do it - it can require a trip up the mast to correct it. That's not a good thing in heavy weather, when knowing the wind speed is critical. ...[more]

UK Coastguard Agency asks the question: 'Why regulate?' By Sail-World/Joanne Rawlings, , 8:06 AM Mon 10 Dec 2012
A breath of fresh air has floated in, bringing with it an opinion of a bureaucrat that there just might be too many rules about what leisure sailors can and can't do. The amazing, but very welcome announcement, began with the almost subversive-sounding 'Why regulate? Can't we just have fun?' ...[more]

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