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Complete index of all articles
Index
Unassisted climbing the mast
Black Diamond Bosun's Chair ReviewMore Unassisted Mast Climbing using a GriGri
Ultimate Unassisted Mast Climbing
Unassisted Mast Climbing - 1
Unassisted Mast Climbing - 2
Unassisted Mast Climbing Update
Line and Rigging
8:1 and 20:1 Cascade Vang Systems (and link to 16 more vang systems)A Better Soft Shackle
Amsteel to StaSet Splice
Block Mechanical Advantage
Double Soft Shackle
Fairlead Friction Explained
Gross Fine Mainblock Reeving
High Strength Soft Shackle
How to Tie a Bowline (fast and easy) Hybrid Soft Halyard Shackle
Hybrid Soft Halyard Shackle
Inhaulers
Jib Twing
Jibsheet Fairlead
Low cost High Tech Halyard
Low Friction Ring Mechanical Advantage
Main Halyard Soft Shackle Variation
Mainsheet System Analyzed
Mainsheet Systems
More Low Friction Rings
More on Rings as Twings, Inhaulers, and Twings
No Shackle Halyard
Soft Halyard or Line Shackle
Soft Line Shackle on a Block
Soft Shackle Spinnaker Y-Sheet
Soft Shackles
The First Bend
Vang Systems
Boat Upkeep and Maintenance
Almost Lost My RigBoat Dimensions
Boating Electrical ABCs
Bonding Sinks Boat
Bonding your boat
Buying New Sails
Buying Used Sails
Calibrating your Knot Meter
Controlling mold growth on your boat
Foot Block Wedge
Gray Marine 4-112 Humidity Below Deck
Lightning on a Sailboat
Loos gauge accuracy
Make your own Telltails
Oh the horors of having tape pull up the paint below
Over 900 FREE Manuals
Replacing Cockpit Drains
Repowering your Sailboat
Rig Tuning
Navigation
7-Day Tide and Current ForecastAutomatic GPX File Marker and Route Generator
Easy GPS Waypoints and Routes Creation
GPS GPX Batch Waypoint and Route Creator
GPX CSV Waypoint Editor and File Converter
Latitude Longitude Converter
Light List
Printing your own NOAA Charts
The San Francisco Bar
Tide Page
User comments about the Weather and Tide Page from Forums and emails
Weather Page Updates
Weather Report for L‑36.com
Electrical and DIY
DIY Boat Monitoring SystemFault Tolerant ESP32 Boat Monitor
Low Noise Voltage Measurements with ESP32
PC Boards for Boats
Sending Email using ESP32-SIM800
Miscellaneous
Calibrate a Marine CompassEvantide Sails Again
Eventide T-Boned in MM Regatta
GoPro Fogging
Keeping this site working
Knife Review -- one year later
Knives on a Boat
My GoPro will not Turn ON
My Youtube Channel
StartLine Articles
Racing
Analysis of A Tack (using GPS)Articles on Racing
Basics of Sailboat Raceing
Finding Target Boat Speed to Windward
How to Fly a Spinnaker
How to Point Higher
Leeway
Papoose Dismasted
Racing with a Whisker Pole
Small Things Big Wins
Starting
Velocity Headers
Wood Boats
Cockpit RepairInspecting Wood Boats
Repairing a pulled up rail track
Repairing cabin top leak on Papoose
Wood Boom Repair
Lapworth 36 Articles
Boat of the Month (L-36)Chariman Bob's list of concerns about L-36s
From Odin Braathen
Insurance
L-36 Class History
Remembering Bill Lapworth
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