Boat Maintenance Tips

Boat maintenance is a critical part of owning your vessel. The systems that protect, propel, and power your vessel are important to keep at peak performance to avoid problems when you’re underway or under sail. Engines, electrical systems, sails, seals, pumps, paint — don’t let them keep you from enjoying your pleasure craft. Waggoner has the boat maintenance tips to keep you in command of your maintenance for a carefree boating season.

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ESI Has Silicone-Based Bottom Coatings!

ESI Has Silicone-Based Bottom Coatings!

Essential Shipyard Industries (ESI), based in Friday Harbor,  just opened a second facility in the Skyline area of  Anacortes, providing customers with essential boatyard services, including bottom coatings. ESI has partnered with North American SeaWide to distribute...

What Does The Future Hold For Your Boat?

What Does The Future Hold For Your Boat?

What is the future for a boat when it no longer sparkles? If it costs more to hold onto the boat vs the fun it provides the owner, then it’s time to step back and evaluate the options. For some, the boat is a quick sale, at any price. Perhaps a new owner is willing to...

Protect and Boost Your Prop with Crystal Prop

Protect and Boost Your Prop with Crystal Prop

A new product, called Crystal Prop, is a long-lasting paint designed specifically for use on propellers, shafts, struts, and other metallic underwater surfaces. When applied to the prop, this product creates a smooth surface, which decreases water resistance, and...

Renewable Diesel – the Friendlier Choice

Renewable Diesel – the Friendlier Choice

Did you know that Renewable Diesel is now here for boaters, and reduces greenhouse emissions? This clean, efficient new fuel for diesel engines is growing in popularity and availability. Renewable Diesel is a direct substitute for petroleum diesel fuel that is refined...

Winter Classes for Boaters – Marine Technology Center, Anacortes

Winter Classes for Boaters – Marine Technology Center, Anacortes

February and March are great months to take in some classes before heading out for spring/summer boating excursions. The Marine Technology Center in Anacortes (1606R Ave.) is once again offering their top, favored classes. Don’t miss signing up online for these...

Is Fuel Polishing Necessary?

Is Fuel Polishing Necessary?

Is there a more perplexing issue than fuel management facing a new boat skipper with a diesel engine? From an early age we learn about gasoline going into cars at the gas station. Filler up, jump in the car, turn the key… vroom, off we go. Likewise, on a boat, we jump...

Spring Classes for Boaters – Marine Technology Center, Anacortes

Spring Classes for Boaters – Marine Technology Center, Anacortes

Spring is the time when boaters are busy preparing their vessels for the summer boating season, checking their boat systems and making needed repairs and improvements. Equally important is a refresher on interpreting the weather and maintenance know-how. For many...

Benefits of Installing an Inverter Bypass Switch

Benefits of Installing an Inverter Bypass Switch

by Art HebertThe bypass switch allows the owner to send power to inverted loads (usually electrical outlets, heaters, dehumidifiers etc.), by sending electric current around the inverter. This is great for periods of extended absence by the boat owner....

Clutch Plate/Drive Plate/Drive Damper

Clutch Plate/Drive Plate/Drive Damper

Whichever name you want to know it by, this out-of-sight, little known, sometimes misunderstood, integral part of the drive train on our boats can ruin your day and cruise if not maintained. For purposes of this article, we will settle on the name Drive...

Protecting Pretty Things – The Bilge Pump

Protecting Pretty Things – The Bilge Pump

by Aiona Hartley   Isn't it pretty? It's a bilge pump. Or rather the inner windings of one. Its literal guts, if you will.  This is what heats up if the bilge pump undergoes "rotor lock." Given enough heat, a bilge pump in "rotor lock" can catch on...

5-star Meals Begin with Proper Grill Care

5-star Meals Begin with Proper Grill Care

Caring for the BBQA strong odor on my boat led me to the lazarette, where we store the propane grill. I had neglected to clean the grill during fall layup, mold had formed on the bits of baked-on food and grease that remained.Grilling is truly our favorite way to...

Propane Tank – Staying Ahead of Corrosion

Propane Tank – Staying Ahead of Corrosion

A Little Rust Doesn’t Signal the EndRust is a concern in many settings, but especially true in the saltwater marine environment. Nowhere is it a bigger concern than when it comes to your steel propane tank. If your tank has rust, it doesn't mean that the...

Shore Power – How to prepare your boat and avoid ELCI Problems

Shore Power – How to prepare your boat and avoid ELCI Problems

Onboard ELCI – The Why and The HowIf you don’t already have Equipment Leakage Circuit Interrupter (ELCI) protection onboard your boat, you will want to read this article and learn how ELCI devices can make for safer boating and discover the various...

Like New with Marine Detailing

Like New with Marine Detailing

When we purchased our 46-foot DeFever in 2010, she looked like new and had been well-maintained by her previous owners. When out cruising with her, other boaters complimented her appearance and were surprised to learn that she had been Commissioned as...

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