Dollars and Sense
January 27, 2025
Protect your boat’s value with expert cleaning tips. Learn how to tackle salt, grime, and stains to keep your vessel in top shape year-round.
Protect your boat’s value with expert cleaning tips. Learn how to tackle salt, grime, and stains to keep your vessel in top shape year-round.
Discover the best tank senders for tracking fuel, water, and waste on boats. Learn about sight tubes, floats, ultrasonic senders, and more for accurate readings.
Gelcoat can protect your boat season after season—if you follow these maintenance tips when it’s time for repairs.
There is no stopping it. Here are some tips to mitigate the problem.
A watermaker will provide plenty of the most important human necessity.
This tool lets boaters “see” the flow of electricity and diagnose onboard issues.
Gelcoat needs smart maintenance on a regular schedule to keep the boat looking sharp.
Launching, retrieving and stowing a dinghy are tasks that need careful consideration, with numerous dividends.
Knowing the ins and outs of hydraulic or electronic steerage systems can make it a lot easier to solve dead-helm problems.
Windlasses can be incredibly robust and extremely reliable, given a little care and the proper installation.
Smarter steering means frequent, but only short, glances at the chartplotter.
Howard Chen’s Bold Vision in China
How one liveaboard crew found comfort and confidence by choosing paravanes over high-tech stabilization systems.
Great Lakes Cruising Story: Family, Failures & Perseverance
An Aspen Power Catamarans rally raises the adventure bar with a trip up Vancouver Island’s untamed west coast.
Boats designed with these appendages, as well as retrofitted models, enjoy a wealth of benefits.
Oftentimes, we go overboard when trying to please everyone.
A Scandinavian-Style Passagemaker
With the N46 Mark II, Nordhavn reimagines the first model the brand’s founders ever designed entirely on their own.
A conversation with Trawlers Great Lakes
