Regarding the Wag Bag Stowage article, reader David Peeples wrote to say:
Don't use epoxy on PVC or ABS pipe. Use instead solvents specifically made for those materials. There are some that are universal (work on both kinds of plastic). Once you have applied the solvent and joined the pieces, fusing them together takes mere seconds. Way better than epoxy for this purpose.
After reading Dave Nghiem’s article series 9 Days of Sail Camping on S/V Ghe Ho Dep, David Peeples wrote:
Long ago, I had a little Ed Monk Sr. 21' cutter (beam 7', draft about 35" displacement 5000 lbs, built in 1935). It had a marconi main, a staysail jib, and a Yankee jib on a roller furling setup. As soon as I would deploy the Yankee, I could feel the added power and acceleration. That was a masthead rig, with the foot cut away a lot as is typical for that sail. I made a wishbone boom for the staysail, and it helped control the clew when off the wind. I did discover early on that you don't want to try to furl the Yankee while off the wind. It can lead to an exiting few minutes as you try to clear the mess aloft when the jib tries to wrap itself around the headstay. I realize that many sailors use the jib luff itself as the headstay. Oh, I should mention that I also had running backstays to maintain reasonable tension in the Yankee's luff.
Speaking of contributor, Dave Nghiem, here is his video on Sailing Guna Yala (The San Blas Archipelago) in the Ulus Sailing Canoe.
In the article How Dare You! we asked readers to tell us their own nautical peeves. Captain Suzan R. Wallace offered this one:
Annoyed currently by all the AI images of sailboats on the same level as uninformed sailboat painters. STOP!
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