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.
An interesting and well-optioned 3-stateroom newcomer to U.S. shores
After overplanning for a Gulf Stream crossing on my refitted Grand Banks 47, I found myself in a scene that would have shocked anyone.
Your boat and its systems are composed of a wide variety of fasteners.
It’s smart to keep an eye on the boat’s emergency equipment, even between scheduled service intervals.
Discover how Captain Luuc Klop transformed a rugged, unfinished 44-foot pilothouse trawler into “Barabbas”—a stunning, family-friendly passagemaker.
A Veteran of Two Great Loops on Small Boats Considers a Third in a 25-foot C-Dory TomCat.
Setting expectations and communicating clearly can make time on the hard shorter and more fruitful.
It’s not every day that a builder and owner take Hull No. 1 for 1,200-mile, open-water shakedown, but the Demey 60 Spaceship is headed for new frontiers.
The concept process behind Croix du Sud demonstrates how to consider a future refit for a classic build.
Anchoring comes with a lot of variables. Here are the key things to keep in mind in order to stay put.
