It’s time to get your boat ready for sailing season. We love sailboat upgrades and tips that make boat handling easier, reduce distractions, or reduce wear on the boat.  Here’s a recent collection of pictures shot while walking around at…

Skippers in single-handed boats have their hands full, controlling the tiller, mainsheet, and sail control lines. Great boat speed requires adjusting all the sail controls constantly. Have you ever been frustrated because the control lines for the vang, cunningham, or…

MC-Scow Board Height Adjuster One go-fast technique for many types of boats is to raise the centerboard or lee boards a few inches to counteract weather helm as the breeze builds. This moves the boat’s center of lateral resistance aft…

The older style MC-Scows lack a board pull-down line. If your board doesn’t go down all the way in a tack, you are stuck with two bad options: live with it, or go to the low side and push it…

In small boats, such as the MC-Scow, you sometimes have to hike to leeward to keep the proper angle of heel. The hiking straps are adjusted for hiking to windward with the typical 15 degree angle of heel, and thus…

Have you ever looked down at the ratchet block to grab your mainsheet and gotten confused about which part of the sheet to pick up?  Many mainsheet ratchet blocks are symmetrical in appearance, making it hard to identify which direction…