Posted by Dave on Jun 22nd 2022
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If you're not already addicted to at least a couple of YouTube sailing channels, there's a whole great world you're missing out on. Starting from before the pandemic and absolutely catching fire durin
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Posted by Dave on Jun 16th 2022
Crossing Oceans
The ocean crossing hype is real. Last night we watched the premiere of 11th Hour Racing's film Under The Hull (link) at Fort Adams in Newport RI, the Newport to Bermuda Race (link) starts to
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Posted by Dave on Jun 8th 2022
World Oceans Day
Today is World Oceans Day, which is a critical day for all of us as alpha citizens of the ocean. Edson is proud to be a leader in promoting ocean health through the ubiquity of our pumpout statio
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Posted by Dave on May 26th 2022
Engine Cables 101
Growing up, I think one of the reasons I got so into sailing was a) I loved being on the water and b) engines scared the crap out of me. This might have been reinforced when my brother and his friends
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Posted by Dave on May 19th 2022
Replacing wire steering cable with Dyneema part 2 - the install
Having successfully removed the existing chain and wire in the last post, the task fell to measuring chain and cable, and making a new chain and new Dyneema cables. Measuring the chain is easy enough,
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Posted by Dave on May 9th 2022
Replacing wire steering cable with Dyneema
Many of the world's top race boats have switched to using Dyneema rope instead of 7x19 wire. Edson has successfully supplied many systems using rope-based steering cable for many years, including on o
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Posted by Dave on Apr 28th 2022
Can stainless be magnetic?
Many of the best blog topics come up from conversations we have around the office or customer questions. Today's comes from both so it must be an absolute humdinger!Stainless steel is generally though
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Posted by Dave on Apr 15th 2022
Pre-purchase steering inspection
Spring is happening with a vengeance here in New England, which means that brokerage activity is or will soon be in full bloom to match the daffodils. While most pre-purchase surveys will give a broad
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Posted by Dave on Mar 31st 2022
Site Refresh Phase 1
As you may have noticed when you clicked onto our homepage, the site has a new look. We ask a lot of the site, as it has to play storefront to a ton of different products in several different categori
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Posted by Dave on Mar 24th 2022
Steering cable tension
An underappreciated element of sailboat steering maintenance is cable tension. Most people don't think too much about it, but in minor cases it can cause some imperfect steering responses and markedly
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Posted by Dave on Mar 15th 2022
Some Safety at Sea Basics pt 2
First off, for anyone planning to do coastal cruising of any sort, please consider taking a Safety at Sea course. I took my first before a Bermuda Race about 20 years ago and still use lessons fr
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Posted by Dave on Mar 11th 2022
Some Safety at Sea Basics pt 1
There's no arena where the proverbial ounce of prevention is more valuable than safety at sea. Murphy's Law and simple logic dictate that things always go wrong at the worst possible moment - nice sun
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Posted by Dave on Feb 25th 2022
Presentations R Us
One of the silver linings of the last few years has been our collective comfort with Zoom meetings. Even if we're all a bit tired of them, they're great for the right purpose. Last night, Reed and I g
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Posted by Edson on Feb 8th 2022
Welcome to the Edson Blog
Welcome to the Edson Blog! Blogging may be a dying artform
but we still make worm gear steerers, so no one does “dying artform” quite like
Edson. This is actually something of a resurrection of Edso
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