Boats & Gear 

Perry on Design: Swan 51 and Sun Odyssey 350

Technique: How to mount deck hardware and shipshape organization

Boat Doctor: Switching to LiFePO4 batteries

Gear: Sea boots and deck shoes 

Used Boat Notebook: C&C 37/40

Departments

For Openers

Full and By: How technology freed sailors from their safety-at-sea hubris

On the Wind: Caswellian rules for boat buying success

Splashes: Big wind for the Big Boat Series

For the Love of a Boat: A boat brought back from the dead created a legacy of craftsmanship

Your Beauty of Sail: Readers’ photos

The Wharf: Brokerage, charters and other sailing related goods and services

On the Cover: Mark Sanders’ 71-foot Charles Nicholson ketch Hurrica races across San Francisco Bay in the Rolex Big Boat Series. Cover picture by  Daniel Forster/Rolex