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I like the Clamcleat CL262 (the one with longer arms than CL261). Less fiddly than the Chinook crank. My arm strength is decreasing with age, but the cleat still works well for me.

Thank you to th ...

My first real notice of windsurfing was seeing gear on top of a colleague's car, and asking him what it was. This was in Mountain View, CA, circa 1986-87.

By October of 1993 I had somehow begun re ...

I bet those really flutter if roof racked
It takes a real tight fit to prevent that.

I have an aging Da Kine bag (very degraded and shredded after 5 years with lots of time in the sun) for my main ...

At 200 MPH for a cylinder 400 cm x 3cm I calculate a force of around 480 N. Suppose a 100kg sailor were a point mass with no additional surface area. 0.5g acceleration from just holding onto the mas ...

I have found that my (poorly maintained and overstuffed) wetsuit is much easier to zip if I kneel or sit on the ground while zipping up. Without trying to analyze mechanics that I cannot see, I will ...

It is reported that a group of 54 kayakers were rescued from Tomales Bay Saturday night after encountering sudden intense wind around 10PM.

They were on a nighttime excursion to look at bioluminesc ...

Aquapac's key pouch works fairly well, but the seam is not especially robust and can open up, so it is best to keep a spare pouch or two and to check the seam before each session. I use it with an or ...

Finally: photographic documentation of the mechano-miscegenative act that resulted in the Nissan Murano and Juke.

Twin fins can give an advantage if your sailing site tends to be shallow, because you can use shorter fins.

If your site tends to be both shallow and weedy, twin weed fins look spiffy but (in eel g ...

I'd suspect poison oak or other contact dermatitis, or contact with or ingestion of a photosensitizer. I once was prescribed a course of doxycycline for malaria prophylaxis, and was cautioned to wear ...