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An extensive grab bag of facts and commentary on troubleshooting, installing, and repairing a wide variety of equipment. Techniques for any one job are useful but limited. Contains excerpts from hard-to-find bulletin board and newsgroup postings, as well as links to useful sites and vendor pages.
[Bill Dietrich, USA]
An e-mail discussion list for people interested in boating gear and maintenance information. Almost 300 subscribers.
[SailNet, Charleston, SC, USA]
A serious cruising couple, who spend 4-6 weeks ashore plus 15 hours per week maintaining their 56-foot cutter, tell how to reduce maintenance time, cost and risk. 3 pages.
[Cruising World, November 2002]
A circumnavigator tells you what trouble symptoms to watch for in your gear, how to prevent some of these problems, and what her maintenance schedule looked like.
[Cruising world, August 1996]
Over 50 checks, inspections, and preventive maintenance chores, particularly recommended for spring launching but useful year-round.
[National Boat Owners Association, USA]
Brief list of safety questions about your gear, including PFD′s, fire equipment, fuel systems, ground tackle, safety equipment, stoves, electrical system, bilge pumps, through-hulls, and batteries.
[Nautical Know How, Inc., Stuart, FL, USA]
Common sense on maintaining a maintenance log, and how it can have benefits completely beyond boat maintenance.
[Sail Jazz, Mount Pleasant, SC, USA]
Contains a pre-cruise mini check list of inspections and tests you can do to be sure your boat has no electrical or related problems. An excellent reference when adding, refitting or maintaining electrical components. The pages are shareware; the author requests a small donation from users.
[Robb Zuk, Salt Spring Island, Canada]
A checklist for weekly, bi-monthly and monthly inspections and preventive maintenance chores performed by a yacht maintenance firm. Compare it with your maintenance plan.
[Marlin Yacht Management, Ft. Lauderedale, FL, USA]
A list of gear checks before each passage.
[SetSail]
I′ve learned there is about a hundred years′ difference in boat design from 1985 to 1995.
Eddie
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