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  1. Breeding Cats in Cape Town
  2. Centurion 40S
  3. Deciphering an HIN
  4. The legacy of Philip Rhodes
  5. Southerly 101
  6. The New Columbia 30
  7. Buying a Charter Yacht
  8. The Joys and Pitfalls of Buying a New Boat - Part 2
  9. The Joys and Pitfalls of Buying a New Boat - Part 1
  10. Cruising Multihull Sail Trim
  11. Optimizing Sea Trials
  12. Trailering Your Boat
  13. Finding Beauty in a Junk
  14. Boat-Building 101
  15. Through the Cracks
  16. You've Bought the Wrong Boat
  17. Quick Rig and Deck Check
  18. Centerboards and Swing Keels
  19. Building Our Sailboat
  20. The Burdens of Command
  21. Choosing the Right Boat
  22. Boat Plumbing Inspection
  23. Buying the Big Boat
  24. Cruising Catamarans—Fixed Keels or Daggerboards?
  25. Naming and Renaming Your Boat
  26. Techniques for Removing Teak Decks
  27. Cruising the Classifieds
  28. Keeping It Simple
  29. The Cruising Cockpit
  30. Rust Never Sleeps
  31. The Third Essential
  32. Surveying a Diesel Engine
  33. The Importance of a Pre-Purchase Survey
  34. Leaking Seacocks and Sink Drains
  35. Center or Aft Cockpit
  36. Finding the Family Boat
  37. Hull Blistering
  38. Monohull vs. Multihull
  39. Reading Hull Numbers
  40. Re Gelcoating
  41. What's in a Name?
  42. Structural Damage
  43. Restoring a Hobie
  44. Gigi—One Boat's Story
  45. Painting Bottoms
  46. A Good Family Cruising Boat
  47. Recommending Surveyors
  48. Boats for the Long Haul
  49. Advantages of Different Keels
  50. The Basic Liveaboard
  51. Optimizing Your Downwind Performance
  52. Size Matters
  53. Advertising Issues
  54. Funds Held in Escrow
  55. Shoal Draft Cruisers
  56. Underwater Profiles
  57. The Ideal Daysailer
  58. Selling a Boat
  59. Information on a Specific Boat
  60. Cheap Deals
  61. Choosing a New Boat
  62. Documenting a Vessel
  63. Ownership through Chartering
  64. Sea Trial Etiquette
  65. Sailing a Cutter Rig
  66. Evaluating the MacGregor 26
  67. Buying My First Boat
  68. De-Waxing Hulls
  69. Yacht Design and Circumnavigating
  70. Negotiating Sales Tax
  71. Ferrocement Pros and Cons
  72. Broker's Reputation
  73. Repairing Holes in Fiberglass
  74. Problematic Hull Deck Joint
  75. Steel Hulls—Pros and Cons
  76. Wisdom for Boat Shopping
  77. One big or two small wheels
  78. Rebuilding an Unknown Sailboat
  79. Selling a Motorsailer
  80. The Family's First Boat
  81. Selling a Boat
  82. The Commissioning Process
  83. Shower Set Up
  84. What's a Good, Small Boat
  85. Selling a Boat on Your Own
  86. Bluewater Boat?
  87. Tender is the Vessel
  88. The Right Boat
  89. Fixed Keels vs. Swing Keels
  90. Design Surprise
  91. The Best Daysailer
  92. How We Define Seaworthy
  93. Considering Ferrocement
  94. The Choosing-a-Boat Equation
  95. Locating a Surveyor
  96. Sail Area
  97. Selling Advice
  98. Modernizing the Free-Standing Rig
  99. Proper Certification
  100. Deck-Stepped vs. Keel-Stepped Masts
  101. Creating a Motorsailer
  102. Having a Sailboat Built
  103. Less Expensive Cruising Alternatives
  104. Custom-Built Boats
  105. Asking Prices and Book Price
  106. Used and New Boats
  107. Long Distance Multihull Purchase
  108. Teak vs. Fiberglass Decks
  109. Ronstan’s Clear Start
  110. Removing Old Names
  111. Contracts and Sea Trials
  112. Steel or Fiberglass
  113. Buying a Catamaran
  114. New Boat or Old
  115. Calculating Displacement Ratios
  116. Good Light-Air Boats
  117. Inland Lake Sailing
  118. Rebuilding a Damaged Boat
  119. To Survey or Not to Survey
  120. A Boat to China
  121. Moondancer 's Keel and Masts
  122. Insuring a Ferrocement Boat
  123. Building Moondancer
  124. Affordable Multihulls
  125. Strange Contraptions in Foreign Boats
  126. Catamaran or Trimaran?
  127. Back from Bermuda
  128. Hull Speed Demystified
  129. Buy Your Boat in Europe—Now!
  130. The Balance of Hull and Sails
  131. A Case for Multihulls
  132. The Windrider Rave
  133. Buying the Family's First Sailboat
  134. Vanguard's Volks Boat
  135. The Tartan 3700
  136. Monohulls and Catamarans
  137. Capsize Controversy
  138. A New Inland Lakes Scow
  139. The Starting-Out Boat
  140. Brokers: The 10-Percent Factor
  141. The Westerly Ocean 43
  142. Heavy vs Light Displacement
  143. Start-up and Running Costs
  144. New or Used?
  145. Modern Production Boats
  146. New Escape
  147. The C&C 121
  148. Beneteau's First 40.7
  149. The Turner T45
  150. Mystic Alicat
  151. The Right Draft for the Keys
  152. The Perfect Cruising Boat?
  153. Starting out in a Cat
  154. Considerations When Buying a Boat
  155. Buyer's and Seller's Responsiblities
  156. Buying a Liveaboard
  157. Selling
  158. Reality Check on Cruising Catamarans
  159. The Beneteau 361
  160. The Bermuda 40
  161. The Cabo Rico 40
  162. The Catalina 310
  163. The Dufour 36 Classic
  164. The Hunter 420
  165. The Island Packet 380
  166. The J/46
  167. The Longshore 19
  168. The Saga 35
  169. Replacing Our Boat
  170. The Selling of Safari
  171. The Right Insurer and the Best Policy
  172. How to Choose the Right Boat
  173. Engine Checkup
  174. Is New Better than Old?
  175. Pure and Simple Sailing
  176. Realistic Cruising Budgets
  177. The Pros and Cons of Smaller and Lighter