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How To Make Your Boat Shine

How To Make Your Boat Shine

September 7, 2021 3 Comments

Here’s how to make your boat shine – we demonstrate the best way to make your metalwork sparkle, remove rust from your Gelcoat, and make your engine nice enough to eat off of! How To Make Your Boat Shine Video Links to Products Mentioned in the Video Autosol Marine Products (From Autosol) Star Brite Rust[Read More]

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What Tools To Have On My Boat

What Tools To Have On My Boat?

June 29, 2021 3 Comments

We often get asked by aspiring sailing cruisers, ‘What tools to have on my boat?’ One of our guests wanted to bring his land-based man cave with him. He spent his life building up his tool collection and felt very attached to it – especially his lathe. This is totally understandable but ultimately not practical.[Read More]

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Marine And Boat Refrigeration Temperature

Marine And Boat Refrigeration Temperature

June 15, 2021 2 Comments

The secret to having a successful sailing cruising lifestyle is maintaining a routine of checks. Things break on a boat all the time when you first start out. Over time, however, you start to discover ways and means to prevent a majority of breakages – even checks concerning marine and boat refrigeration temperature come into[Read More]

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The Best Life Jacket For Sailing Cruisers

The Best Life Jacket for Sailing Cruisers

April 3, 2021 5 Comments

The Best Life Jacket for Sailing Cruisers? Let me tell you a story first. Never did I expect to be standing under the boom in a Force 10 storm trying to tie down our mainsail. The seas were an ominous muddy gray with enormous white angry cresting waves. The waves were crashing on top of[Read More]

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Mantus Scuba Pack

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May 9, 2020

After living aboard our sailboat full time since 2014, we have some tried and tested kit that we refuse to live without. These are the items we use on a daily basis and make a massive impact on our lives. Before you set sail make sure you have these items or similar. They’ll surely make your[Read More]

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Top 10 essentials for living on a sailboat

Top 10 essentials for living on a sailboat – A woman’s perspective!

September 18, 2019 36 Comments

Owning, living and traveling on a sailboat requires several essentials – the obvious one’s that come to mind are a working engine, tip-top rigging, good sails, a strong hull and crew that know what they’re doing. Aside from the core basics, however, I have a list of my top 10 essentials for making life on[Read More]

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Best Shoes For Sailing

Best Boat Shoes For Sailing – It’s Not Deck Shoes

October 23, 2018 6 Comments

After living aboard our sailboat for over four years now, we know the best boat shoes for sailing. Surprisingly, in the tropics, it’s not deck shoes. Before leaving land we had to choose between what we took on board and what we left behind. While sailing over 30,000 nautical miles we’ve actually gotten rid of[Read More]

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Best anchor for your sailboat

Best Anchor for your Sailboat

October 1, 2017 4 Comments

If you ask ten sailors what the best anchor is, you’ll get ten different answers. Furthermore, what works for one sailboat/one sailor won’t necessarily work for you. A better question to ask regarding the best anchor for your sailboat is this: My boat is a (type of boat), it weighs (weight), has a beam of[Read More]

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Install Outboard Stabilizer Fins

How To Install Outboard Stabilizer Fins

June 6, 2017 4 Comments

Learn how to install outboard stabilizer fins to your outboard motor. Why? Stabilizer fins increase stability, allow for better gas mileage (average of 40%), help the dinghy to quickly plane at lower RPM, increase top-end speed and keep the bow lower at all speeds. (Video at the bottom of article) The only reason I can[Read More]

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Mantus Dinghy Anchor

The Best Dinghy Anchor

April 18, 2017 2 Comments

What’s the best dinghy anchor? To determine the best dinghy anchor we tested three variations: the folding grapnel anchor, the claw and the Mantus anchor (deemed ‘the best dinghy anchor’). Allow me show you a picture of each anchor, explain why a sailboat owner would need an anchor for their dinghy, and the results of our[Read More]

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