Your Boat’s Outer Skin
August 29, 2024
Gelcoat can protect your boat season after season—if you follow these maintenance tips when it’s time for repairs.
Gelcoat can protect your boat season after season—if you follow these maintenance tips when it’s time for repairs.
A power failure at sea highlights the ins and outs of multi-voltage systems.
Whether hauling out annually or less often, follow this haul-out game plan to get the most from your time “on the hard.”
When it comes to your windlass, what you “don’t” see is what needs the most TLC.
Using a power buffer to properly clean and polish your gelcoat is best for your boat, and your sanity.
Is it possible for a diesel engine to start up all on its own?
Creating a library of owner’s manuals and other stuff has real, hands-on advantages.
Need to turn a small circular hole in a bulkhead, deck or other surface into a larger one? Here’s a tip.
While not a replacement for bottom paint, Ultrasonic Antifouling systems can help keep your hull cleaner, extend paint life and improve fuel economy.
Island time is great, except in an emergency. This medevac service is for boaters who need help fast.
Black streaks, yellow mustaches and rust all require different solutions to keep a boat looking clean.
A Down East icon provides inspiration for this gentlemanly cruiser.
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.
