Maritime Wood

If good enough isn’t good enough for you. If you care enough about details to demand the very best for your yacht, and not want to pay the high cost what it will cost.If you care enough about appearance not to be content with popped our production boat, why should you put up with popped out production sails?

Doing your own design and construction will satisfy your needs and look good and give yourself a great feeling.

Bent Frames. Why they break, and how to fix them, Causes of Failure and Tensile Cracks and Breaks Repairs to steam-bent frames are often within the capabilities of boat owners who have a basic knowledge of carpentry and who have access to a few portable power tools and some basic stationary machinery

What’s the correct way to wire an anode to my stern gear and engine? You need to run a bonding wire from a convenient bolt on the engine block to one of the studs on the anode. The wire should be of low electrical resistance and also resistant to corrosion.

Poor Performance under power, a detail look at the whole installation, For years several Nic 35 owners have reporting difficulties with their hydraulic drives. Indeed, there have been several instances of engines having to be rebuilt due to being run overloaded at low speeds. Although this hadn’t happened to Francis, he had never been satisfied with the performance under power of his own boat.

Professional Tools make the Difference, Consider this: Two power tools both, for the sake of comparison, drills displayed side by side at the corner hardware store. At first glance they seem to be the same, but the-price-tag signals difference. One drill might run as low as $25; the other over $100.