Boats sit for long stretches between trips, and anything that sits becomes a target. I spend a lot of time scrolling boat listings, and I keep running into stolen boat posts — a Predator Copperhead that got gutted and sold

If you've got more than one battery on your boat — engine, house, trolling motor, whatever — you already know the pain of not knowing which one is dying until it's too late. You go to fire up the trolling

Today was the first bath my boat's gotten all year, and it's the most important wash I'll give it all season. Not because it's the dirtiest it'll ever be — it's actually not that bad — but because how well

I had one of those days where everything on the docket needed attention at once — a pressurized lower unit that blew rocks and grease all over me, a Vessel View calibration check, a cowling latch cable swap, and a

I've got a dash panel on this project boat that's beat up, faded, and honestly just looks tired. Instead of buying a replacement, I decided to paint it myself with basic engine enamel. The catch was the engraved labels —

I pulled the access panel off this bass boat's bilge area and just stood there for a second. Butt connectors spliced into more butt connectors. Lamp wire — actual lamp wire — feeding a livewell aerator. Three power wires twisted

If you've got an engine battery, a house battery, and a trolling motor battery on your boat, you already know how hard it is to keep track of all three. One of them starts going dead all the time, and

Back on Christmas Eve 2024, I set up a test I honestly forgot I was even running. I took two of everything out of a boat's fuel system — primer bulbs, fuel filters, fuel pumps, injectors, O-rings, gaskets, diaphragms, brass

This boat sat in the woods for years. Rats, rodents, dirt, oxidation — the whole nine yards. When I pulled it out, the gelcoat cleaning looked chalky and faded. It looked like it belonged in a scrapyard, not on the

This box sitting on my dock was the last thing standing between me and getting my boat back in the water. I had that same feeling you get unboxing furniture from IKEA — the one where you know you're going