I’ve long thought there must be a safer, more comfortable way to go up our mast than a Bosun’s Chair. When I criticized our use of this ancient design concept, my fellow sailors and racers would give me that all too familiar judging smirk, followed by something like: “We all have to do it; just get up there.”

When we decided to replace the worn-out, real teak on our transom sugar scoops, we thought it might be best to look into synthetics.

We are teak oilers over varnishers, so our teak needs regular elbow grease. In our (seemingly never-ending) quest for the right teak cleaner

Angie's always on the team solving problems, and not understanding the inner workings of diesel engines meant they were just black boxes — b