Maintenance is a necessary chore. Finding side benefits makes it fun, even when it means hauling yourself up the mast each spring.
Boat Maintenance
Keep your cruising boat and gear working well with these suggestions for routine maintenance and simple fixes.
🎧Planning Boat Systems and Spares
Learn to choose the RIGHT spares to have on your boat, along with how to design truly redundant back-up systems.
🎧Boat Maintenance and the Black Box
The best tip for staying out of trouble . . . keep your black box filled up! Learn more about it here and specific things you can do to avoid trouble when motoring.
Maintain-ability
Maintaining your boat is key to enjoying it. Ease of maintenance and access is important is check when looking at boats to buy.
🎧3 Tips for Line Etiquette
Tying your boat up well is a characteristic of good seamanship. It’s even more important for a storm. Learn what to do and what not to do!
🎧How To Choose Bottom Paint
What’s the best bottom paint for your boat? Lots of things go into determining that, and what works well for your buddy might not be right for you. Everything you need to know.
🎧Six Steps to a Perfect Bottom
Bottom painting. How do you keep this regular, messy, job in check? 6 steps will have you clean, painted, and ready to splash.
Safety Checks
A chilling story from a reader brings home an important point: never assume your safety gear works. Check it. Frequently.
🎧4 Months Repairs on a Cruising Boat
How much boat repair is there really in the cruising life? How often do repairs really delay you?
Installing a New Halyard
No, you don’t have to go up the mast to change a halyard. See how we do it in less than 5 minutes from the deck.