Boat Reviews

“`html What Cavitation Looks Like on Your Trawler Prop I spent three weeks last summer chasing down a noise I couldn’t pin down. My 42-foot...

“`html Why Great Loop Cruisers Face Unique Fuel Tank Risk Planning a Great Loop passage means committing to 18-36 months of continuous cruising through some...

“`html Why Raw Water Pumps Fail on Trawlers As someone who’s spent six seasons cruising the Great Loop and two passages to the Bahamas, I...

“`html Why Trawler Galley Design Matters on Long Passages Forty-eight hours motoring to Nova Scotia last spring with three crew members — that’s when everything...

“`html Signs Your Trawler AC is Failing Before Total Breakdown I spent three weeks last summer on the Great Loop with a dying air conditioner,...

“`html Why Stabilizers Matter on Long Passages Six weeks aboard a 42-foot Grand Banks — first the Chesapeake, then the Gulf of Mexico — taught...

“`html Why Trawler Holding Tanks Fail on Long Passages Holding tank failures on extended cruises aren’t random — they’re predictable consequences of how we actually...

“`html Why Winterization Matters for Cruising Diesels Winterizing a trawler diesel engine properly—honestly, it sounds like something you knock out one weekend. It’s not. Get...

“`html Freshwater vs Saltwater Cooling Systems for Trawlers — Which Works for Your Passage? The Great Loop or cruising from the ICW to the Bahamas...

“`html Why Standard Generator Sizing Rules Fall Apart at Sea The “one kilowatt per ten feet of boat length” rule haunted me for three years....