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TM Contents SEPT/OCT 2019 ISSUE 128 Speaking Seriously Review Boat 8 The Beneteau First 345 40 A true racer/cruiser from the world’s largest boatbuilder By Robb Lovell For the Love of Sailboats 44 Design Comparison A Day in the Life 12 Beneteau First 345 . What’s More 14 Working in Another World … and a couple North American racer/cruisers A diver’s insight can reveal the hull story By Rob Mazza Websightings By Brian Mykytiuk 3 The best sailing magazine ever? Rigging Matters Learning Experience 17 Equal Angles, Equal Forces The View from Here 20 A Squall, a Broken Shackle, Correct adjustment of your spreaders 5 Getting from Under Pressure and Hydrolock may save your rig to Bohemian Rhapsody A Bristol and her crew are schooled By Connie McBride Helping the next generation of sailors on the Chesapeake to find sailing By Ed Lawler Design Matters By Michael Robertson 26 The Hull-to-Deck Joint Sailing Tales There's more than one way to fasten Mail Buoy 30 The Joy of Sextant the two biggest boat parts 7 Our Mag in Mexico, Ethanol A J/40 races celestially to Bermuda By Dan Spurr Lament, and Goodbye Gwyneth By Joe Rosenfeld Refit Boat Simple Solutions Short Voyages 34 Lessons from Experience 28 A Step Above (or Below) 40 The Canals of New York A refit turns a Great Lakes daysailer Safety and comfort increase A first cruise after downsizing into a Caribbean cruiser with a companionway fix By Susan P. Gateley By Bob Allenick By Drew Frye On the cover . Interior Improvements 52 The Solar Panel Bimini 44 Cracked and Crazed No More Why build more than you need? An old galley gets a new view By John Langford By Terry Kotas 53 Fireplace Facelift Rigging Matters Better than new after half a century 47 One Wrong Step By Reb Blanchard The go-slow art of sailboat repair By Jon Keller Product Profiles 51 A tool to plug holes, a tool to 14 open holes Andiamo, this 1989 Brewer 44 owned by Carolyn and Gino Del Guercio, joins a Good Old Classifieds 56 short list of boats that have twice been a Good Old Boat cover girl (see the Reflections January 2017 cover). This time, Susan 61 Under the Sign of the Crab Bisaillon captured the Brewer sailing in Life and the sailing season don’t always align the Bahamas in fresh winter wind. 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