Boat Maintenance

The Bottom Paint Report

Indicative of the tangled web sailors enter when trying to select an anti-fouling paint, this year’s Practical Sailor anti-fouling paint test featured a huge...

The Brush Keeper

Poke your head up the hatch after waking up on board on a crystal clear morning in Port Townsend, WA's Point Hudson marina and...

White Paint Match-up

One of the long-standing complaints about bottom paint—besides its cost and laborious, monotonous application on an annual basis—is the way it looks. Some sailors...

Teak Treatment All-Stars Finale

]That left eight of these products to soldier on. Mind you, all of them had ranked one, two or three in previous separate tests....

Bottom Paint 2004

About the only thing that's predictable about them is that they're unpredictable. That's what the experts say about sharks and twisters, and we've always...

Underwater Metal Coatings: Test Results

We reported in the August 1, 2003 issue on the phasing out of tributyltin (TBT) as the biocide of choice for antifouling paints. While...

Teak Treatment All-Stars After Six Months

Over the years, teak treatments and marine varnishes have been exhaustively tested by Practical Sailor. We can't recall when a test frame of some...

Offshore Log: Gelcoat Maintenance

Painting fiberglass boats is a huge business. The development of high-gloss, long-lived polyurethanes means you can get multiple years out of a paint job....

Teak Treatment All-Stars Grudge Match

Teak is a wondrous wood. Some wood-lovers don't care for its somber earth-tone colors, preferring instead the luster of mahogany, the richness of cherry,...

Topside Paints At One Year

To commence its first-ever test of high-gloss topsides paint, Practical Sailor about a year ago applied a colorful "bracelet" on the editor's work boat—a...

40-Footer Boat Tours – With Some Big Surprises! | Boat Tour

Join us at the Miami Boat Show as we get on four 40-footers for boat tours! A Beneteau 37.1, Jeanneau Sun Odyssey 410, Dufour...