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Fitting a new sailboat steering wheel

Fitting a new sailboat steering wheel

Posted by Dave on Dec 28th 2022

For any number of reasons (some of which will be the subject of subsequent posts), you may want to change your sailboat's steering wheel. While this is actually more straightforward than a lot of other boat projects you might do, there are a few parameters that you need to account for to both g …
Sticky steering

Sticky steering

Posted by Dave on Aug 17th 2022

It's a few days past mid-summer, so ignore all the back to school flyers for a while longer and enjoy the beautiful aft end of the season with the return of breeze and fish, and relief from the worst of the punishing heat.  As often happens, we've recently had a run of questions on one top …
Engine Cables 101

Engine Cables 101

Posted by Dave on May 26th 2022

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 took the family Tartan 27 out on the Sound and clogged up the raw water strainer and that wasn't a …