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Could I have a storm jib double as a riding sail?

By Emiliano Marino A Riding Sail system is an almost indispensable piece of comfort and survival gear aboard any boat that is moored or anchored out for any length of time.

by Emiliano Marino Last Fall, just when the United States’ military was preparing to bomb and abduct Venezuelans in pursuit of oil, a client came to the sail loft wanting a custom made cover for an oil well maintenance truck.

by Emiliano Marino I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, we never know who’s gonna walk into the sail loft with an unusual project!

Whirling, swirling, skittling here and there like a leaf in the wind.

We’ve posted a riddle online and here is the answer: Out front of The Artful Sailor’s shop there are several symbolic pennants and flags fluttering madly in the Fall gale of wind.

by Emiliano Marino The Artful Sailor’s Sailmaker’s Apron design began in 2017, not as an apron but as what we called inwale pocket cloths for holding sundry items along the rails or gunwhales of a small boat.

By Emiliano Marino The making and hanging of a hammock is an art.

Josh Colvin, editor of Small Craft Advisor Magazine, now an online publication, interviewed Emiliano, a long time contributor and technical editor for SCA, with a series of provocative questions on subjects about which Marino has some clear, and currently…

By Emiliano Marino Normally, the popular West Wight Potter 15’s have a lumpy, humpy, asymmetrical leech anyway; supported by a full upper batten.

by Emiliano Marino In yacht racing circles, sailors hope to win silver trophies.

by Emiliano Marino Ha!

By Emiliano Marino The Universe works in mysterious ways.

By Emiliano Marino A Working Sailor’s Accessory No, I am not going to try to shame you into giving up shoes, hamburgers, steaks and rawhide, nor offer scenes of suffering or environmental havoc; but, we have a problem: our beautiful, rugged rigging knives…

In terms of longevity, roller furling sails are throwaway sails, to begin with.

Long about six years ago, Lorelei the cat arrived at The Artful Sailor shop.

By Emiliano Marino The Artful Sailor sees a lot of sails.

By Emiliano Marino I first came to the The Artful Sailor’s building in 1979.

By James L.

By Emiliano Marino The green of oxidized copper in the form of verdigris is a lovely color, but spells doom on the brass and bronze hardware in a sail as spur grommets disintegrate and hanks freeze.