Extend Your Marine Engine Life With These Tips
Pro tips and practical maintenance strategies to keep your boat’s engine healthy between haul-outs and offshore sailing.
Expert advice and insightful tips for boat owners to navigate their ownership experience, maintain their vessels, and cruise with confidence and knowledge.
Pro tips and practical maintenance strategies to keep your boat’s engine healthy between haul-outs and offshore sailing.
When solar power stalls in squalls, a marinized portable generator keeps the batteries charged and the cruising life humming.
These simple upgrades and smart tips can keep freshwater and waste components running smoothly while cruising.
Cost-effective, durable alternatives to teak can refresh your decks and extend your classic boat’s cruising life.
Cost-effective, durable alternatives to teak can refresh your decks and extend your classic boat’s cruising life.
Smart strategies to find the right help, stay on schedule, and ensure quality results—wherever you cruise.
From surveying damage to choosing topcoat, here’s how SV Avocet‘s repair held up over time, and how to improve your process.
Learn how to inspect and maintain your marine transmission to prevent costly failures and keep your boat running smoothly.
The trick to installing a basic digital navigation network is to start with only the basics and to get the most important features.
Poultice corrosion can lead to costly repairs if it’s not caught and remedied quickly. Here’s how the pros do it.
In hindsight of our 40-year refit, we unveil the behind-the-scenes details of the project, starting with the forward head.
Learning how to inspect for small rigging problems can stop them from becoming bigger ones after you’ve left the dock.
When an unusual weather system plummeted air temps from balmy to bitter, this crew turned to cold-season comfort food.
After gathering mussels off California’s Channel Islands, one cruising couple shares their go-to curry dish from the galley.
Crunchy, nutritious, and long-lasting, cabbage is a galley go-to for sailors provisioning for offshore or coastal cruising adventures.
Too hot to cook down below? This easy grilled pizza hit the spot after a long, sweaty day of boatwork in the Mexican sun.
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West Coast Multihulls offers sailing charters and sailing instruction aboard a fleet of modern cruising catamarans.
A cruiser shares lessons from replacing worn Dacron with modern sails and explains how new technology can improve cruising.
From roller furlers to square-top mains, today’s trimarans offer big speed and smart sailhandling for coastal cruisers.
Trapped water can make stainless steel vulnerable. Learn how to prevent crevice corrosion before it leads to failure.
DIY repairs can get you farther than you realize if you suffer a tear in a place where there is no sailmaker.
Check out electric motors, repurposed sails and reef-safe sunscreens, and reduce single-use plastics on board.
While the Totem crew saw plenty of natural beauty during their circumnavigation, unfortunately they saw environmental devastation as well.
Amid stories about the declining state of the ocean, a sailor finds inspiration while sailing marine protected areas on a passage between Maine and Bermuda.
At Wake Island, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is exploring the deep into better understand what lies below the surface.
The world’s largest sailing community app now lets users track their boats, record passages, and share adventures for free.
In the 2025 Annapolis to Newport Race, an all-women crew proved that strength and skill under sail come in many forms.
Smart boathandling, good communication and humility help sailors maneuver safely in tight quarters.
Hall of Famers Steve and Doris Colgate reflect on 60 years of sailing, teaching, and Offshore Sailing School.