Don’t bring this on a sailboat

Practical Sailor editor Tim Labute takes a deep dive on how to avoid a bad day on the water:

In this Practical Sailor top 10 countdown, they look at the forbidden items that don’t belong aboard, from funny sailor superstitions to very real safety problems. Some of these are annoying, some are messy, and some can genuinely create expensive or dangerous problems on a sailboat.

Whether you’re buying your first sailboat, maintaining an old cruiser, upgrading your marine electrical system, or just trying to avoid dumb boat-owner mistakes, this video is a practical checklist of things to remove, replace, or rethink aboard your boat.