Battery Chargers: Newmar Earns Best Buy Status
Not to let technology get in the way of simplicity, the Charles Industries 2000SP is a good choice for recharging modest banks of lead-acid...
Perko, Hella, and Orca Green Shine
ConclusionsThese lights are tremendously expensive, no doubt. If money is tight, your decision will have to ride on your realistic intended uses for these...
DC Electrical Distribution Panels: Blue Sea Systems on Top
You just finished adding some important electronics to your boat—let's say a new VHF, and a combination knotmeter-depthsounder. Now, how do you get electricity...
Battery Selector Switches
ConclusionsThe Blue Seas switch is our choice for best value in a standard-duty battery selector switch. It's made in the U.S. with high-grade materials,...
12-Volt Booster Packs
Even so, assuming that this would be used on a decent-sized boat, and used as a jump-starter—rarely, we hope—it's hard to choose it over...
Portable Gas Generators
ConclusionsAll of these generators get the job done. The VST types do it differently—and each type has its pluses and minuses. The VSTs are...
PS Advisor: 09/04
LEDs in EmergenceYou published a letter in your June 1 edition this year in which the writer questioned the feasibility of LED lights for...
EPIRB Update: 09/04
In the wake of independent tests conducted by the Equipped to Survive Foundation (ETS), wherein the GPS components of two EPIRB models from McMurdo...
Cabin Lights
Among all the energy demands aboard a modern boat—electronics, pressure-water systems, watermakers, autopilots, refrigeration, and so on—it's simple DC cabin lighting that's often the...
Battery Boxes and Trays
Batteries boxes are often overlooked, yet are an essential and integral part of a vessel's electrical system. A wet-cell battery not held firmly in...
Catalina 356 Cruising Sailboat with BIG Features!
Thirty-six-foot Sailboats didn’t always have aft cabins, island beds, in-mast furling, electric windlasses and winches. The all-new Catalina 356 is a couple’s cruising boat...
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Ranger 33 Used Boat Review
The Ranger Yacht division of Jensen Marine was created in 1969 to build performance-oriented boats designed by Gary Mull. Jensen’s Cal division had been...