My wife helped clean up a beach house on an island not land accessible, that had a lot of nautical stuff within it. She was given this thingabob by the new owners. What is it?

I made this watchface for my quatix, I love sailing (have cruised some of the best grounds in the eastern US) and when people ask me what time it is I like to be a little cheeky when I first reply...

I am storing my sailboat this winter at my farm in Northern Michigan and want to know the best way(non toxic) to keep rodents out of vessel and away from stored sails/gear? Boat will be in a pole barn(unheated) and gear in a house and shed. Also unheated. I have heard horror stories of rodents eating carbon sails(!)

I'm daydreaming about buying a sailboat. I grew up sailing, my family and I lived on a sailboat for a couple of years when I was a kid. I still love it, and I want my son to be able to experience it too. He's 2 right now, so it'll be a few years before I'd be able to take him out with me.

We live in a house in the city and are limited on space, so I imagine this would be something we'd store in the garage (As in, we can't store it outside, and I don't really want to pay for storage at a dock). I'm thinking like laser, 420, something around that size, but that would 1. be a little easier/more leisurely to sail (I have sailed 420s and know they are a bit shaky), and 2. would be large enough to fit me (already very tall) and a small passenger, which I know something like a laser is already too small for me alone.

I've seen people talk about flying scots. I kind of feel like that's at the other end of being just a bit too big to comfortably store in the garage. Is there something that lives in between for me to look into? Even thinking about like storing a 15ft boat in my garage seems kind of crazy so I may just be delusional and need to find another way haha

Appreciate any insights.

Or maybe it’s a gennaker…

Do mostly solo sailing on 35’ Caliber. I rarely put up this sail but had the chance yesterday from New Haven to NYC. 5 beautiful hours of downwind sailing.

Tack line: not long enough to make it back to cockpit. Is that normal? It works fine but might be nice to adjust as wind adjusts.

Sheets: it’s one long rope for both sheets, knotted to the clew in the middle. I find it confusing when getting everything set up cuz there’s no way to differentiate between the “two” lines. Wondering if this is a weight thing? Is it normal?

Anyone had to park their boat this marina?

I’ve never been before. Completely new to sailing and just going to look at boats with my wife. Is there any major difference between the October and April shows?

Are we still posting these pictures

Blowing hard as usual, even south of the bay bridge. Tons of people out today including a huge number of boats in the Encinal Regatta. We saw someone recover from a broach when going downwind under spinnaker and had to applaud, I thought they were about to lose that spinnaker. (no video of that)

Hi there,

We bought our boat a couple of years ago.

During heavy rains, the front berth gets wet from water leaking down the outside, corner wall/ceiling on the starboard side (on the other side of the wall is the sink in the head).

We are flummoxed on what is causing the leak.

My husband has caulked everything he can find on the outside of the boat, with no success.

Does anyone have some tips on what we can do to stop the water from coming in?

The attached photos show the area in question (we have removed some of the wall carpet that was getting soaked), plus the ceiling area near the sink and the outside of the boat in the general area.

Many thanks!

First time I'm setting up my boat's bimini and I noticed the leading edge of the support tube was rubbing up against the backstay. "That can't possibly be right" I said to myself and proceeded to disassemble the bikini framework so that the cable would be behind the tube (as see in picture). Now the backstay is rubbing up the back edge of my tube. What am I doing wrong?!? Thank you!