by Mai Tai | Apr 25, 2022 | General Maintenance, Maintenance
Prepping Your Boat For Spring Cruising (Cont.) After making my initial inspections and completing an overnight sea trial three serious issues presented themselves. In this issue I discuss the most serious and the most complicated problem, leaking propeller shaft...
by Mai Tai | Mar 10, 2022 | General Maintenance, Maintenance
Prepping Your Boat For Spring Cruising The marina parking lot is filling up on the weekends, buffers are whirring and engines are lighting up. The sounds of spring are in the air. It’s time to prep for spring cruising. Here’s what we do to start the...
by Mai Tai | Jul 7, 2021 | Gelcoat Maintenance, General Maintenance, Maintenance
Gelcoat Maintenance – Maintaining Glossy Finish There’s nothing like that “new boat” glossy finish. Keeping it that way for as long as possible is the challenge. Washing and waxing is the obvious answer to keep that shine going. But, there are...
by Mai Tai | Jun 27, 2021 | Boat Maintenance, General Maintenance, Maintenance, Plumbing
Heads Up To All Boat Owners I never expected to see another boat sink at dock. But, there it is. The second time in a year that a boat, only a stones throw from us, ended up under water when we woke up in the morning. This was a relatively new express cruiser that...
by Mai Tai | Jun 1, 2021 | General Maintenance, Maintenance, Sanitation
Operational Considerations To Keep Your VacuFlush Toilet Working Properly In our last issue on the VacuFlush toilet we discussed some of the weak points in the system and how to keep them from being a problem. In this issue we discuss some of the operational...
by Mai Tai | May 11, 2019 | Boat Maintenance, General Maintenance, Maintenance, Safety
It happens more often than you think. If you spend any time hanging around the docks you will likely see or at least hear about boats sinking while tied up nice and snug. It hardly seems possible. “Boat sinks at dock” happens more often than you think. A...
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