All your instructional guides for Cruising


Feeling powerless

The humble multimeter . . . your best friend when it comes to tracking down power problems.

Petrea Heathwood explains how to check voltage drop in your power system.

Better buying

How to apply?

Heading along to the local chandlery? Chandlery assistant Kerry Ashwin has some tips.

Electrics: Just Cruising by Keith Fleming

Electrics are the hidden essentials on a cruising boat.

Electrics are the hidden but essential part of any cruising boat.

The A-Z of cruising

The Murdoch family’s superyacht, Rosehearty.

Simon Kent gives us a crash course in cruising and cruising jargon in this fun A-Z.

Outboard on board

Choose the right outboard for your needs and remember - the more powerful, the heavier it will be.

How to choose a lightweight outboard for a performance trailerable.

The chilling question - refrigerator or icebox?

Thermo electric units only give
temperature drops below the outside surrounding air temperature of around 20° on economy settings and 30° on high power settings, making them less useful when the weather gets really hot.

There can't be a skipper of a TS or small keelboat that at some stage hasn't lusted after an inbuilt fridge in their galley.

Through the maze of laptop navigation software

This screenshot shows Memory-Map in split-screen night mode. Split screen allows you to split the chart into two screens and zoom right in on one screen. Night mode changes the screen colour to better suit your eyes
at night.

Robert Minato looks at what is available in navigation software for turning a laptop computer into a navigation device.

Dinghy tales

Looking not that much smaller than the boat, Christine lurks on a beach and waits for her next victim.

Helen Hopcroft encounters a dinghy with a wicked sense of humour when Christine enters her life.

That's entertainment!

Entertaining on Sydney harbour.

Sharon Smallwood shares some do's and don'ts for ensuring that entertaining guests on board is a pleasure rather than a hassle.

Your first port of call: Just Cruising by Keith Fleming

Yachts cruising overseas require a little more paperwork than the average airline traveller.

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