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May 21, 2024 | 
practical-sailor.com | John Stone
Have you been wanting to add a bootstripe to your boat but aren’t sure how to do it? Perhaps you have a bootstripe already but need to raise the waterline and bootstripe. Looking around the boatyard for inspiration might not be much help. Many of the bootstripes you see, once you train your eye to recognize the crisp ones from the wobbly ones, might convince you that it is a lot harder than it looks. But it doesn’t have to be.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
practical-sailor.com | John Stone
August through October are hurricane months in the Carolinas. While it’s almost always best to haul out for a hurricane, it’s not an option for every boat owner. In the summer of 2018, our only viable option for securing our 36-foot Cape Dory Far Reach was to remain in our marina slip and get ready best we could. Our marina is on the Neuse River about 20 miles from where it empties into Pamlico Sound, a large body of water between the mainland and the famous Outer Banks of North Carolina.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
practical-sailor.com | John Stone
Are you having trouble with your boat’s critically important seacocks? Maybe the handle is frozen and attempts to free it using penetrating oil, a breaker bar, or heat failed to loosen the sea’s vicious corrosive grip. Or maybe you can open and close the valve, but it leaks. Perhaps you’ve thought about replacing the half dozen or more seacocks on your boat but gasped when you checked the prices of traditional bronze seacocks. What to do?
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Mar 20, 2024 | 
practical-sailor.com | John Stone
Spring is just around the corner. For many sailors, especially those with boats on the hard, it’s good time to consider the advantages of stripping off years of old paint.
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
practical-sailor.com | John Stone
Multifunction displays are big and bright, but a stand-alone sounder offers some redundancy in case the network fails. To continue reading this article or issue you must be a paid subscriber. Sign in Subscribe Subscribe to Practical Sailor Get the next year of Practical Sailor for just $34. And access all of our online content - over 4,000 articles - free of charge. Subscribe today and save 42%. It's like getting 5 months […]To continue reading this article or issue you must be a paid subscriber.
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Oct 29, 2023 | 
hcplive.com | John Stone
Suppose you had a new patient in your practice, whose clinical presentation included swelling under the chin caused by enlargement of the submandibular glands. Following a biopsy, you see storiform fibrosis, obliterative phlebitis, a lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate, and mild-to-moderate tissue eosinophilia, similar to what is seen in the pancreas during autoimmune pancreatitis. If diagnosing such a patient seems challenging, you are not alone. I saw this precise patient more than 15 years ago.
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Aug 29, 2023 | 
acrjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Zachary S. Wallace |John Stone |Xiaoqing Fu |Peter A. Merkel
Objective Fixed and tailored rituximab retreatment strategies to maintain remission in antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)–associated vasculitis (AAV) are associated with tradeoffs. The current study was undertaken to develop a simulation model (AAV-Sim) to project clinical outcomes with these strategies. Methods We developed the AAV-Sim, a microsimulation model of clinical events among individuals with AAV initiating treatment to maintain remission.
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Jun 20, 2023 | 
practical-sailor.com | John Stone
Staying Cool on the WaterAs the first of what will likely be many heat-waves this summer is driving many people indoors, it is a good time to make sure that you are well-equipped to deal with the soaring summertime temperatures. Fortunately, summer temperatures are almost always cooler near the water. Which is good, since we doubt many our readers would skip sailing just because it's hot out. During our decade of cruising, my partner and I spent most of our days within 20 degrees of the equator.
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May 22, 2023 | 
practical-sailor.com | John Stone
With the alligators no doubt watching, I used my DIY hookah rig to swap out the prop blades on the Flexofold propeller. The whole operation took only a few minutes. The switch to a smaller diameter prop with less pitch allowed the engine to reach its maximum rated RPM. To continue reading this article or issue you must be a paid subscriber. Sign in Subscribe Subscribe to Practical Sailor Get the next year of Practical Sailor for just $34.
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Apr 19, 2023 | 
practical-sailor.com | John Stone
Home Systems & Propulsion Diesel Engines Marine Diesel Repower Part 2 To continue reading this article or issue you must be a paid subscriber. Sign in Subscribe Subscribe to Practical Sailor Get the next year of Practical Sailor for just $34. And access all of our online content - over 4,000 articles - free of charge. Subscribe today and save 42%. It's like getting 5 months […]To continue reading this article or issue you must be a paid subscriber.
