How-to: Maintenance

Something I had forgotten about over the years is the limitation found on inland lakes and waterways that exists in some locations. Specifically I'm talking about either horsepower limits or in some cases restrictions on the use of internal combustion ... …Read More

Parker Energy Systems has just introduced a handy device that although intended to be used to control their fuel polishing systems, offers boaters additional functionality whether you have a fuel polishing system or not. The device is a programable ti... …Read More

Mastervolt, an innovator in many areas of marine electrics near and dear to my heart announced yesterday that they have added another distributor to their growing US presence. It turns out that the distributor they selected is a long time ABYC member a... …Read More

Regarding the Gulf oil spill, I've been sitting back quietly observing the shenanigans as they evolve. I remain amazed that technologically, we have the ability to send a mobile robot to Mars and send back photos of that planet's surface, but we can't ... …Read More

Over the last decade more and more boaters have either bought or retro-fitted bow thrusters. In some cases people have had to buy several........... Why? You may ask. DC stray current corrosion to the extreme has been the cause for more than a few bow ... …Read More

I love it when readers send along a photo of something they see on a boat that catches their eye. Recently a reader sent a little gem my way that is perhaps the ultimate in what we used to call a "Mickey Mouse" installation. No offense meant to the Dis... …Read More

Well its Memorial Day weekend and at least for me the boating season has begun. On my power boating side that means striper fishing here in the northeast. Every now and then the fish get smarter than fishermen and one of the ways they do that is to ge... …Read More

Most people that own boats spend little or no time thinking about the exhaust system for either their main propulsion engines or their generator if they have one. In going through my photo archives today I ran across a photo in my "stupid designs" file... …Read More

A $250 West Marine gift card goes to Capt. Chuck Cahill, who has two boats vying for their next upgrade. …Read More

OK, so I'm among those low tech types that does not have an iPhone. I use a Blackberry because my service provider is not a part of the iPhone network, and I like my service provider, Sprint. Today it was announced that a new weather service applicati... …Read More