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Gear strictly for dinghy racers
Gear strictly for dinghy racers
Get your boat and team ready to travel.

They all claim to be waterproof and breathable, but for such an essential gear item, there is a big difference in even the small details. SW gets the story from the inside of seven different spray tops. From our May 2006 issue.

The best gear to come out of the last Crew Overboard Retrieval Symposium. From our Nov./Dec. 2006 issue.
News brief
“Is it Time to Upgrade to PBO Rigging? Jesse Falsone developed a custom Excel spreadsheet to compare the weight savings and performance gains of PBO rigging.

How to take a tired and neglected boat and return it to it’s past glory
Keep your boat in racing condition with these tips
The exhibition hall of Chicago’s Navy Pier was chock full of new boats and race gear for 2005. Here are a few SW’s favorites.

By the lake just east of Cleveland, Fairport Yachts builds C&Cs; and Tartans at one facility and long carbon products under the Novis Composites brand at another. We did a shop tour of both operations last week, beginning with Novis, the mast maker.

North’s 3DL technology may lead the grand prix market, but other sailmakers have worked hard to developed their own laminate-sail technology. An in-depth look at the state of the art of sailmaking. From our May 2004 issue.
Broadseaming-cutting panels on a curve or sewing panels with a variable overlap to create depth in a sail; shape is also created through curve in
Gear strictly for dinghy racers
Get your boat and team ready to travel.

They all claim to be waterproof and breathable, but for such an essential gear item, there is a big difference in even the small details. SW gets the story from the inside of seven different spray tops. From our May 2006 issue.

The best gear to come out of the last Crew Overboard Retrieval Symposium. From our Nov./Dec. 2006 issue.
News brief
“Is it Time to Upgrade to PBO Rigging? Jesse Falsone developed a custom Excel spreadsheet to compare the weight savings and performance gains of PBO rigging.

How to take a tired and neglected boat and return it to it’s past glory
Keep your boat in racing condition with these tips
The exhibition hall of Chicago’s Navy Pier was chock full of new boats and race gear for 2005. Here are a few SW’s favorites.

By the lake just east of Cleveland, Fairport Yachts builds C&Cs; and Tartans at one facility and long carbon products under the Novis Composites brand at another. We did a shop tour of both operations last week, beginning with Novis, the mast maker.

North’s 3DL technology may lead the grand prix market, but other sailmakers have worked hard to developed their own laminate-sail technology. An in-depth look at the state of the art of sailmaking. From our May 2004 issue.
Broadseaming-cutting panels on a curve or sewing panels with a variable overlap to create depth in a sail; shape is also created through curve in
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