Systems & Propulsion

Water Fixer Best Bet for Making Sure Your Drinking Supply is Safe

A vast infrastructure of utility companies and governmental agencies collects, filters, treats, purifies, and distributes water that comes from lakes, rivers, reservoirs and underground...

RIs No-Discharge Controversy

This isn't an item youve likely read about in your local newspaper, but here in Rhode Island, the EPAs designation of all Rhode Island...

Offshore Log: A Simple Outboard Lifting Crane

For two years, we struggled to get our 8-hp. Yamaha outboard from its storage location on the stern rail to the transom of our...

Isotemp and Super Stor Earn Best Ratings Among 7 Water Heaters

When one compares the list of standard equipment on a boat built in the late 1980s or 90s to a boat built during the...

marinCool Peltier Effect Refrigeration

Just as theres more than one way to skin a cat, theres more than one way to chill a beer. Serious cruisers usually opt...

PS Advisor 09/01/00

Inflatable vs. Hard DinghyI have recently bought a nice, old 38' Shannon ketch, and she has dinghy davits. I have no dinghy, but am...

Low-draw LED Anchor Light

On the back page of the Fall 1999 Davis catalog are six new products—amber, red and white LED Clusters™ in either single- or double-contact...

Marine Sanitation:SeaLand Holding Tank Systems

SeaLand Technology of Big Prairie, Ohio is not a diversified company. Once part of Mansfield, the largest maker of home toilets, SeaLand was spun...

Marine Sanitation:Does Your Holding Tank Hold?

If you’d asked the yachtsman of 30 years ago if some day he’d be lugging around his sewage in a tank, he’d probably have...

Marine Sanitation: 8-Way Hose Test

SeaLand Technology of Big Prairie, Ohio, manufactures marine sanitation systems. It’s all they do. Their product lines include heads, polyethylene tanks, tissue paper, hoses...

Truth About Grease – Boat Maintenance Must Do Tips

Sailboat Maintenance is a big topic so we're breaking it down into bite sized boat maintenance tips in our Everything You Need to Know...

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Beneteau 393 Used Boat Review

Beneteau is one of the few builders (along with perhaps Catalina, Hunter and its own corporate cousin, Jeanneau) whose volume of production can generate...