Zhik’s design teams' award winning, Hydrovision® Adaptive Hood and detachable visor as part of its Isotak X Offshore range is now being adopted by yachting enthusiatists.
This high-performance low-cut features an open-mesh construction that enhances breathability, and flexibility, whilst the engineered structural overlays protect your feet from deck hardware.
Read more: The Burghee Foil is All Function and Style Onboard
TaLii Microfibre Towels are super absorbent, anti-bacterial, quick drying, compact, lightweight and odorless. What more could you ask for in a towel?
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Sail shape is long gone. They have stained, feels thin and you see broken threads everywhere. Your sail is used-up and ready for the garbage. What to do with it is a common question that sailmakers get asked.
Ga-Oh (spirit of the winds in Algonquin) creates bags and other items from re-purposed sails.
Starting from the top. If you partake in any winter activities, you have probably heard that your head is the body’s single biggest source of heat loss.
The Yacht-Master II is designed to meet the needs of professional sailors. This regatta chronograph features the world's first programmable countdown with a mechanical memory. It provides precise synchronization with the crucial starting sequence of a yacht race.
Cool As Ice Caps are specially designed caps w/ detachable pouches to hold a cool pack or ice. Great for any outdoor activity to reduce heat stress, discomfort and fatigue. The washable and durable canvas material w/ sewn in vinyl lining extends the cooling effect and prevents liquid from leaking. 
As we dream of the snow melting and the 2014 boating season ahead some of the latest Helly Hansen apparel for sailing. Everything from old-school lifestyle to high-tech offshore to Helly Hansen's newest, innovative piece, the Crew H2 Flow Jacket (a staple of the Volvo Ocean Race crew's uniforms) will offer you everything you need to start the 2014 sailing season in style and comfort.
Read more: Helly Hansen Rolls Out New Sailing Apparel for...
Technical gear and apparel gives you a huge advantage when you are out on the water in the elements. Comfort, warmth, dryness are things we take for granted until we don't have them anymore. The features of this women's softshell jacket from Sperry offer all three and style to boot.
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Boat Reviews
CY Virtual Video Boat Tours
We all love boats and nothing can break us up! So, what better way to spend our time than looking at interesting boats and going aboard in a virtual ride or tour. We have asked our friends at various dealers and manufacturers to help us assemble a one-stop online resource to experience some of the most interesting boats on the market today. Where the CY Team has done a review, we connect you to that expert viewpoint. If you can’t go boating, you can almost experience the thrill via your screen. Not quite the same, but we hope you enjoy our fine tour collection.
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AXOPAR 37 XC
Whole new ball game…
Set aside your assumptions and expectations for a few minutes while we try to describe the new Axopar 37 XC that made its American debut at the 2020 Miami International Boat Show. This boat represents a whole new ball game in terms of design, performance, seakeeping and functionality. In fact, I’d say it takes a ‘clean sheet of paper’ approach to boating – it’s that different.
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Destinations
The Rideau: Living the Past today
By John Morris
History: right after gym and just before chemistry class. Fifty minutes of naming the prime ministers by date and looking out the window. Who knew it was actually interesting.
And in some ways it hardly matters because the Rideau Waterway is just so amazingly beautiful. Driving your boat through the locks is wonderful fun for kids of all ages (adult kids, too) and the scenery is sensational. The history is a huge bonus however, and worth understanding from both as a political lesson and from an engineering perspective.
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Lifestyle
Our boat: A beauty – the 1967 Trojan 42 Motor Yacht
By David and Barb Gamblin
Unknown to us at the time, the quest for VIA-MARA started in 1973 when I saved the back cover of a boating magazine with the advertisement for the Trojan 42 Motor Yacht.
Four boats, and eight years later we went shopping for a Trojan 42 built prior to 1972 (that year the house and binnacle became fiberglass and the bridge window framing changed to (ugh) black anodized aluminum.)
DIY & How to
Ask Andrew – The Bucket
I was cleaning up my workbench the other day. My eyes then scanned across my workbench and fell on ‘the bucket’. Everyone has a one. On a boat, it’s usually in a cockpit lazarette. It’s full of old paint cans and half-used tubes of caulking. There might be some white grease, painters tape or epoxy in there, too. I take my bucket everywhere and it’s full of all sorts of tubes of grease and sealants and adhesives.
I thought to myself that I should probably sort through the bucket and get rid of the stuff that isn’t useful. I quickly realized, though, that each of the items in my bucket (except that had gone bad) were useful, and each is used for a particular job.
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Rayplex Gel Kits
Rayplex makes gel coat repair and colour matching easy. Minor gel coat repairs are easy to get professional results.
Available in white, black-gray-white, red and clear (for metal flake) in various sizes and colours. Rayplex gelcoat can be used for repairs above and below the waterline.
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