Want better and easier ways to maintain your boat? Want to avoid myths that that can turn into costly errors? In this post, we cover a few maintenance tips and myths we’ve run across recently. Easy and Safe Hull Cleaning…

How do you approach hull care? As we saw in our post, Hull Smoothness – What Matters for Speed?, hull smoothness matters but only to a point. In this post, we’ll cover how to achieve a smooth hull and ways…

How much effort should you spend on hull smoothness? We decided to investigate this after seeing a variety of approaches. Many (maybe most) fast sailors put time into polishing the hull, but others don’t bother. Our primary source for this…

Here’s a tip for newer sailors planning to moor a boat or tow a boat on the water. To prevent broken shrouds or forestays, you need to stabilize the rig. Take this simple precaution to save wear and tear. Why…

What are you doing to prep for the season? An easy performance improvement, especially for your mainsheet, is to clean your pulleys. Over the course of a season, lots of dust, dirt, road debris, and who knows what else can…

If you have an MC Scow numbered 2476 or earlier, you may have had the lee boards stick in the up position, making it difficult to release them for a tack. In this article, we discuss the causes and solutions…