- You are here:
-
Home
-
DIY & How To
- Electrical
Far too many people do this in the spring; drop into the nearest big box store and grab a season's supply of universal, discount-priced 2-stroke oil, car oil for their 4-stroke outboard and inboard engines and maybe some all-purpose grease for their cables and steering gear.
Doesn't a propeller look simple? Visually, the size and shape makes it obvious that a propeller kind of "screws" its way through the water and to a casual observer, it looks to be one of the simplest parts on the whole boat.
Create a Custom Checklist for Your Boat
We suggest that you invest in about two hours of time from the marine technician at your dealership and together, create a winterizing and summerizing checklist.
In both California and now in Florida, class action suits have been launched against gasoline companies alleging that they knowingly sold gasoline to boaters containing ethanol and that the ethanol would attack and damage the fibreglass fuel tanks in older boats.
I've never seen an official survey on this, but I'll bet the primary reason people wind up poking around in their engine room is because they have battery problems. Especially with today's new fuel injected engines; your battery only needs to crank the engine over a couple of turns and it starts right up, running happily with your alternator charging and all systems go.
A quiet boat is a good boat. “Quiet” says well engineered, solidly built, comfortable to ride in…new. New boats are quiet. Old ones are noisy – power or sail. Why is that? In a recent technical presentation, we learned that the life expectancy of the sound absorbing materials in most new boats is about 10 years.
Lifestyle
Collingwood Yacht Club
By Katherine Stone
If you have ever had the opportunity to motor or sail across Nottawasaga Bay, located in the southwestern part of Georgian Bay from Christian Island to Collingwood, your point of reference is the huge green expanse of ski hills on the Niagara Escarpment that encompasses Blue Mountain. The ski resort boasts 43 runs, 251 hectares of skiable terrain, 11 lifts, and a summit elevation of 1,283’.
Read more about Collingwood Yacht Club...............
Boat Reviews
Beneteau Flyer 32
By Andy Adams
Summer sun boat! The handsome new Beneteau Flyer 32 is all about entertaining and the bow area is one of the main attractions. It's a wide shape forward with a huge anchor locker and opening centre section in the railing that invites you to beach the boat and go swimming. The bow is really one giant sun bed area with armrests that fold down and head rests too, for fall-asleep comfort.
Read more about the Beneteau Flyer 32....................
Dufour 460 – Pure elegance
By Katherine Stone
When one does an October yacht review on the Great Lakes you can never be sure of what kind of weather you will get…. and did we ever luck out! A beautiful sunny day with a high of 31 degrees and a perfect 8-10 knot breeze with light chop made for a champagne sailing day. Lucky for me we were at Swans Yacht Sales located in the Whitby Marina on Lake Ontario, trying out the Dufour 460 Grand Large, a flag ship for the midrange Dufour boats. With an overall length of 46’5” and a hull length of 44 ‘, this boat is majestic, not only in size, but also in elegance with timeless and contemporary style.
Read More about Dufour 460..................
Destinations
Belize: Sailing Solitude
By Mark Stevens
We’ve just weighed anchor off Thatch Caye, a tiny island nuzzled by Caribbean waters flowing between the world’s second longest barrier reef and the mountainous coast of Belize to our west, and now we’re navigating a serpentine course through a crowded congregation of coral heads.
Once safely in deep water we raise sail. I spin the wheel of “Kavok” (a Lagoon 421 catamaran we’ve booked for our weeklong Belize bareboat adventure from Dream Yacht Charter) until we’re pointed south – steady on a lazy beam reach.
Read more about Belize......................
Marine Products
Hold Everything with the RAILBLAZA Mounting System - CUSTOMIZING YOUR BOAT HAS NEVER BEEN SIMPLER
By: John Kerr
One of the biggest complaints we hear from our readers is ‘why we don’t run more new products’. They often say; “if we don’t know we can’t buy” and there is truth in that. There are lots of new niche products launched every year, but few are advertised and promoted widely and many sadly are never found. We have begun a quest to look for the ‘neat stuff’; the products that are actually here in Canada and in stock at your local chandlery.
One product I love is RAILBLAZA, it’s a wonderfully designed mounting system with numerous accessories and tons of flexibility.
Read more about RAILBLAZA Mounting System...............
