Troubleshooter: Pressing Concerns
March 3, 2025
How to Spot, Fix & Prevent Shaft Seal Leaks on Cruising Boats
How to Spot, Fix & Prevent Shaft Seal Leaks on Cruising Boats
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.
Both have their advantages and disadvantages, and both require making smart purchasing decisions.
Your boat and its systems are composed of a wide variety of fasteners.
You do not need to be a seasoned mechanic to have confidence in your engine.
Gelcoat can protect your boat season after season—if you follow these maintenance tips when it’s time for repairs.
With preventive maintenance now, a few more months of excellent cruising can follow prime boating season.
Hoses need regular inspection and periodic replacement, or all kinds of leaks and drips can result.
Spending the time to make an owner’s manual for your boat will pay dividends in the long run.
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.
An Aspen Power Catamarans rally raises the adventure bar with a trip up Vancouver Island’s untamed west coast.
These 10 decrees will keep pretty much any boater safe out on the water.
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