Blogs Tagged: BOAT UPGRADE

We own a 1986 31' O'Day sloop sailboat that has a head and head storage tank. The head storage tank did not have a monitor. Our head tank is under our V-Berth, and once the berth is set up for sleeping,…

We all know how important it is to get a good night's sleep on the boat. If we don't sleep well, bad things can and do happen. We have been looking to improve our V-Berth sleeping setup for a few years…

How and why we updated our anchor and tackle     Have you ever had problems with a dragging anchor? Like many boaters, we have dragged anchor on a few occasions, which always involved exciting moments.…

We have never had a bimini on our sailboat. Our boat came with a "canopy" that was only useful when at anchor or a mooring/dock, and we could not sail with the canopy in place. We wanted to add a real…

We have always had a bad smell coming out of our holding tank vent line on our boat when anyone flushes the head. If you are sitting on the port side, where the holding tank vent is, and someone flushes,…

Our first sail of the 2016 season was an "EXCITING" one! My wife, daughter, and I went out with friends and their son back in May and had a good time. My wife went down below to get something, and an alarm…

Problem with mold and mildew on your boat? Us too! We have had a problem with mold and mildew on our boat every summer since we purchased it in 2005. I have been making changes to our boat to solve this…

We went to the Newport International Boat Show (NIBS) on Saturday, September 19th, 2015, to check out NEW PRODUCTS! We saw a lot of exciting products. The products that we were most impressed by were: Automatic…