How to Cook Delicious Meals on a Single Burner Stove
Learn how to steam, use a lid, and set aside to steep to cook delicious meals on a single burner stove.
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Choosing the Right Dinghy for Your Cruiser Lifestyle: A Comprehensive Guide
Find the ideal dinghy for your cruising needs. From rigid to flexible, sailing to flying, explore the pros and cons of various types in this guide.
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Preparing for Hurricane Season: Tips for Storing Your Yacht in the Caribbean
Preparing Your Yacht for Hurricane Season in the Caribbean? Read our guide on yacht storage options and best practices for protecting your vessel.
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Tips for Maintaining Your Sailboat in the Caribbean: A guide on how to properly maintain your sailboat when cruising in the Caribbean, including tips for cleaning, storage, and upkeep.
Discover tips for maintaining your sailboat in the Caribbean! Keep your vessel in top shape with our guide on cleaning, storage, and upkeep.
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Marine Adhesives: A Comprehensive Guide to Choosing, Applying, and Maintaining Adhesives on Your Boat
Discover the benefits of marine adhesives and how to use them effectively. Learn the different types and their uses, plus tips for secure bonding.
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Preventing Wood Rot: Tips & Tricks
Learn how to prevent wood rot on your boat with these easy tips. Keep your vessel in top condition and avoid costly repairs. Read more now!
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The Top Questions you should Ask before Buying a Sailboat
10 essential questions to ask before buying a sailboat: budget, type of sailing, size, condition, equipment, costs, resale value.
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Ask the experts: Dinghy Pumps?
Even if your dinghy has perfect air retention you want to keep a dinghy pump close at hand. At least that is the approach of the cautious captain and experienced captains tend to get cautious over time
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Haul & Launch Suggestions
Tips to Haul or launch your yachts or otherwise prep them for use or layup.
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Practical Provisioning: Tips for Before, During & After Passage to the Caribbean
There are no service center stops with fast food outlets or small towns with restaurants on the waterway highway from the U.S. or Europe to the Caribbean. Plus, supermarkets on the islands don’t have the selection or same brands as on the mainland. That’s what makes provisioning well before you cast off so important.
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Will My Insurance Cover Lightning Strikes? What to know…
Lightning strikes are commonplace as are opinions on protecting your property from damage. Signs of a strike can range from a minor blemish to sinking. How do you handle the Insurance?
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What Does It Take to Work on a Crewed Charter yacht?
What does it take to work as crew? For one, a strong work ethic is a must for the 24/7 hours when on charter. Plus, there’s more.
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What to Know! Charter Yacht Vacations
What’s to know before you book and go on a charter yacht vacation? Here are seven of the most frequently asked questions and the answers:
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Dinghy Misadventures
I challenge any experienced boater to say they’ve never had a ditsy, dangerous or close to drowning moment in their dinghies.
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Why Are Horizontal Windlasses Better Than Vertical?
Why is it that the horizontals are so resilient is a much-asked question especially by persons who appreciate elegance on yachts and who therefore do not want the relative clutter of a horizontal winch which sticks out over the deck in a quite industrial manner?
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Caribbean Boatyard Haul-out Tips
Planning is the perfect way to have a problem-free haul out. Start with preparing the vessel for the haul, working with the yard manager and choosing a splash date.
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Sargassum Grown Veggies May Contain Toxic Metals
Is your sargassum grown veggies safe to eat? A study found toxic metals in samples from the Caribbean. Learn how to reduce your risk.
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How to achieve Ventilation on Boats?
Whether the boats got bought or not often did not connect with their quality but with their smell and odor.
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Portable, Filterless Desal Unit – Push Button Seawater to Drinking Water
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Boston, USA, have developed a portable desalination unit
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Onboard Marine Alarms – Use Them!
Onboard marine alarms. Use them often. The more they worry, the less I have to. They are always awake, I’m often mentally dozing.
