Boat & Gear
Most maintenance is not difficult — it is remembering when it was last done. These guides give the intervals by system and by season: laying the boat up and bringing it back, the annual and pre-trip checks, hull and bottom care, and what to log so next year's question has an answer.
3 guides
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Every job by interval and by system, and the three clocks — calendar, engine hours, condition — that decide when it is due.
Read the guideWhat fouling costs, how copper biocides work and where they are restricted, the five paint types and when each fails, what goes over what, and the haul-out job step by step — chosen by how you use the boat, not by which paint is best.
September 26, 2026
Almost everything written about winterizing is written for a boat that will freeze — which is why owners in the Med skim it and decide it doesn't apply. It mostly does. Winterizing is about water that has nowhere to go, and only one of the three ways water wrecks a laid-up boat involves frost. The list split by climate, why the oil change goes before storage rather than after, the fuel step people miss, and the ventilation mistake that grows mould under a perfect cover.
August 11, 2026
A boat maintenance checklist that works like a schedule, not a wish list — what to check before every trip, monthly, at the annual haul-out and every few years, organised by system — plus the piece most lists miss: three separate clocks (the calendar, the engine hours and plain condition) that decide when each job is actually due, and why a dated log matters more than doing the jobs.
July 23, 2026