Practical Sailor is the Consumer's Union like review source that I know
of, and they usually come up with pretty reasonable testing methods and
critieria for evaluating products. However, being a small publication,
it's hard for them to keep up with all the products on the market. And
while they have a website (http://www.practical-sailor.com), they
charge for review articles to offset the fact that they aren't
advertising supported.

I'd certainly like to see more reviews of boat products on the web, and
I would hope that we start seeing a lot more boat and gear blogs, but
surprizingly few are active yet. And I'd also like to have more product
review type features on my blog, www.navagear.com, though producing a
good review is remarkably time consuming, not to mention costly, if the
manufacturers aren't giving you freebies.


Aaron Tinling
s/v Sweet Destiny
www.navagear.com - the tools and tech blog for sailors