Welcome Aboard
Current issue highlights: Make a fishfinder double as a depth sounder, protect your dinghy with step-by-step instructions, and simplify cruising with our guide to life without a fridge. We’ll have you picking up buoys. We review the Cal 36 and Hughes 31 and illuminate your awareness of anchor lights in Anchor Lights 101.
Lighter fare: Keep your eyeglasses from falling overboard with our quick-and-easy eyeglasses holder, use bungee cords for easy furling, and read how one sailor discovered the spirit of Christmas far from home.
What's New At Good Old Boat
Reader Photos
We can't help ourselves. Or is it our readers who can't help themselves? Whichever! They send us photos. We have to post them. So we started a new page for boat photos. Once every two months we'll choose our favorite photo and run it in the Mail Buoy of the current issue of Good Old Boat.
Audiobooks
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers. While sailing in the Baltic Sea, two men suddenly find themselves enmeshed in uncovering a secret German plot to invade England. The Riddle of the Sands is heralded as the first true spy novel, written by Childers in part as a warning to the British government to bolster their presence in the North Sea. This story features equally thrilling scenes of espionage and adventures at sea.
Includes a PDF map, CD jacket and track listing. Approximately 11.3 hours listening time. Read by Jeremy McGeary. In MP3 format, this and other fine books are available as downloads or shipped CDs from www.AudioSeaStories.com.
New Clothing
Great new T-shirts by Tom Payne. Be sure to take a look at the other shirts, and our Good Old Boat logo fleece clothing.
Great colors. Top-quality 100% cotton. Full range of sizes. Only $20.
Just in time for Christmas!
As our piles of printed back issues diminish, we keep adding years for your collection of back issue CDs. We've just added the years 2002 and 2003 for your reading and reference. After all, the articles we've been printing since 1998 are timely anytime for any sailor up to his armpits in rope, epoxy, sealant, and sawdust. Compared with six printed copies of our magazine, these small CDs are portable, stowable, and searchable. Furthermore, they fit well in a Christmas stocking.
Good Old Boat Galley Book
The Good Old Boat Galley Book CD hot off the PDF duplicator's press! The first release of a brand-new concept: a collection of Good Old Boat articles on CD in PDF format (easy to store and easy to use no matter what kind of computer you have). This article collection is about simplifying life in your boat's galley. It isn't so much about what sailors cook (although we do include some recipes); it's about how they manage to do it in a space the size of most shoreside bathrooms! It's about making do and doing without.
Good Old Boat Bookshelf
Looking for those books mentioned in our latest issue of Good Old Boat? We have teamed up with Amazon.com to offer even more books at a better value to you. Have a look at the new books related to sailing and other nautical topics.
