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Marine Cleaners: Gelcoat Restoration & Maintenance eBook from Practical Sailor

Tips for Gelcoat Maintenance

Painting fiberglass boats is a huge business. The development of high-gloss, long-lived polyurethanes means you can get multiple years out of a paint job....

Tips on Preventing Mildew Growth on Boats and Sails

The best way to fight mildew onboard is to keep it from ever starting in the first place. Prevention is your best defense. When...

Bilge Absorbers

The second you drop a loaded oil filter into your bilge, you realize that the most important piece of gear on your boat is...

Bootleg Bronze Cleaners

Lest you think multi-billion-dollar chemical companies and their geeks in white lab coats have a lock on cleaning your bronze, there are numerous homebrewed...

Common-Sense Safety Precautions

Most times, cleaning your sailboat is nothing more than a common but necessary chore. But some cleaning jobs require special cleaners and more-than-usual elbow...
Waxing and Polishing Your Boat

Waxing and Polishing Your Boat

With spring launch day looming for most of us, I am plunging once again into polishing and waxing fiberglass boat hulls. This post covers...
Acrylic Gelcoat Restorers

Acrylic Gelcoat Restorers

Part of our interest in acrylic hull restorers is due to the wide range of opinions on these products. Marketing materials often position these...
pH value scale chart

Choosing Marine Cleaning Products With the Right pH Level

When choosing a multi-purpose cleaning product, its a good idea to look for one where the pH level is balanced so that it is...

Production Boat Keel Matrix Inspection

Keel Failure on sailboats is a scary thought. Inspecting the keel matrix of a production style sailboat is a critical step in your boat...
Fast Cruising Sailboat J 45 video from Practical Sailor

Fast Cruising Sailboat J 45

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Beneteau Oceanis 41 Used Boat Review

Beneteau has been building sailboats for 120 years, but it’s unlikely that patriarch Benjamin Beneteau ever envisioned his boatyard becoming a vertically integrated company...