The Importance of Monitoring and Maintaining Your Marine Engine
April 15, 2025
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Sponsored Story: Regular maintenance of your marine engine is essential to guarantee its performance, durability and avoid unexpected breakdowns.
There’s a lot to consider when changing out an engine. Here are some things to think about to ensure that your repower is a smooth one.
Got an airlocked engine on your hands? Here’s how to fix it.
Engine coolant has come a long way, but it can only do its job if things are working properly.
Our troubleshooting guru, Steve Zimmerman, takes us through how to properly maintain your raw water pumps.
For many, the subject is at best of passing interest and at worst an arcane oddity. But many serious boaters consider it an interesting technology that can be a meaningful part of their maintenance regimen. If you fall into the first category, read on at your risk but please don’t snore.
We follow the path of explorers who ran the Northwest Passage over a century ago, but our journey is a lot more fun
We can spend years planning for a bucket-list trip and then life gets in the way. Go now.
Splashing later this year.
Karly and Evan Nietzel—aka YouTube’s @Navigating Nietzels—tailored their careers for remote work after buying a trawler, moving onboard and completing the Great Loop. Along with their pup, Ripley, they’re just getting started.
This aluminum vessel’s throwback design belies its modern systems, all installed for a Great Loop cruise.
The three-stateroom, semidisplacement model has a range of power options and a low air draft.
A solar-power system on our classic trawler lets us spend time moored or anchored with more than enough juice to meet our energy needs.
America’s Great Loop Cruisers’ Association has been helping boaters complete the ultimate voyage for a quarter century.
The steel-hull Nightfall, designed by William Garden, connects generations of this family through a love of cruising.
Larry Graf, the founder, designer and lead engineer of Aspen Power Catamarans, talks about Aspen’s proa hull designs and adventure cruising on his own creations from the Arctic to the Sea of Cortez.
