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In-Depth Guide to Building a Solar Charging System for Your Boat

Solar panels have long been the best passive solution for keeping your boat’s batteries topped up and many of us have gone through the process of doing an ...
On March 26, 2025 / By George Day
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Zoleo Provides the Simplest Satellite, Cellular and Wi-Fi Comms Worldwide

In the last two years, Zoleo has made great inroads with the cruising community and for good reason. For example, when the Salty Dawg Rally organizers decided to ...
On March 26, 2025 / By George Day
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Mustang Introduces Award Winning Atlas PFD That Does It All

Mustang Survival’s latest inflatable PFD, the Atlas 190 DLX Hammar incorporates everything the highly respected marine safety company has learned about PFDs over the last four decades. This ...
On March 12, 2025 / By George Day
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The Nav System to Replace Chart Plotters?

Many of us who have dedicated chart plotters on our boats or multifunction displays (MFDs), also have charting and routing apps on out phones and tablets that we ...
On March 5, 2025 / By George Day
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Innovative, Recyclable and Award-Winning Weekender from Grand Soleil

After spending three days at the Cannes Yachting Festival in France last September and meeting with the leaders of the major boat building companies, including Group Beneteau, Hanse ...
On December 12, 2024 / By George Day
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Mustang Introduces New Hydrostatic Offshore Inflatable PFD

Mustang has long been a leader in marine safety gear and inflatable personal flotation deveices so it is news when the company comes out with a radical news ...
On July 30, 2024 / By George Day
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Fountain Pajot-Dufour Yachts Group Makes Commitment to Carbon Neutrality by 2030

The Fountain Pajot-Dufour Yachts Group, based in France, has become one of the largest builders of sailing yachts, multihulls and monohulls, in the world. They also have made ...
On April 24, 2024 / By George Day
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Orca 2 Nav System Expands Capabilities

The Orca satellite and chart plotter system designed for tablets and smart phones to replace the integrated systems from Garmin Raymarine and others, has been around for two ...
On April 16, 2024 / By George Day
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Replacing a Sailboat’s Propeller

Captain Curran onboard a 1976 Newport 30 shows how to replace a propeller. He explains the process of first checking for oxidation and corrosion, removing the old propeller, ...
On October 19, 2023 / By Sandy Parks
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Installing an Autopilot

(Practical Boat Owner) – Certain items can be a game changer on a boat and an autopilot falls into this category. Good for those who sail alone as ...
On October 12, 2023 / By Sandy Parks