Boat Maintenance

One of the pleasures of boating, at least for me, is reading boat names! I enjoy the many humorous names and those that are...

As a full-time live-aboard, you learn to make some sacrifices. You ultimately become your own little island so you must learn to ration your...

Two things, as they say, are certain in life: death and taxes. Perhaps a third would be that fuel cost will inevitably keep rising....

The final area for hidden maintenance problems that I want to cover is the boat’s electrical system. Most modern boats rely heavily on their...

If you own a cruising boat, you will have to learn to be an electrician (in addition to a painter, a detailer, a mechanic,...

Boats are made to live on water, but that does not mean they are impervious to the stuff. Some systems, like the  electrical system...

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...

In the quest for speed, sailors endlessly debate sail trim, the best cloth, the hottest cut, and which folding prop will do everything. In...

What jobs can push down on your ‘to-do’ list for later, and will there come a time when you really regret doing that? Sometimes...

Instead of requiring 30 random cleaning products, you would need only four or five with carefully targeted chemistry. Thats it-no more than five cleaners to serve most purposes. Here are the basics to building your own kit.