Navas' Tips

Leave your laptop/notebook/netbook computer unattended and you may well become a victim of "grab and run", the most common kind ...

Alpine Butterfly These eight knots will cover 99% of your marine knot needs . [click links to more information and instructions on h...

When our 14-foot carbon fiber spinnaker pole snapped (due to excessive lateral loading) and we were confronted with a very expensive dilemma...

The Cal Sailing Club , a non-profit, volunteer-run sailing club located in Berkeley gives free Beginning/Intermediate/Advanced Sailing L...

If you have an Android smartphone , these are the sailing/racing apps I use and recommend: Beer Can Racer Tactical racing app, much l...

Passage of healthcare reform, whether you're for or against this particular bill, is an amazing landmark event that I frankly feared w...

The best LED flashlight/headlamp I've found for boating at night is the Photon Freedom Fusion . Click the link and scroll down for fu...

It's cool to have logo gear (hats, shirts, etc) for a boat you cruise or race on, and it's even cooler when the crew gear matches. ...

SSD (Solid-State Drive, based on non-volatile memory ) has finally come of age, and is now a realistic alternative to rotating hard disk dr...

Over the past few years 2.5" hard drives for laptop/notebook computers have greatly improved, to the point where they are now comparabl...