The Marine Installer's Rant

The letter excerpt below was sent to the owner of a new boat. The owner was being advised by the manufacturer there would be no warranty cov...

This should have been an easy job, and it would have been if the guy who designed this helm, had not been a frustrated artist, with a curvac...

"Hey Lefty, I gots an idea for a job. We could heist a boat, hide it in Miguel bay, and strip it down at our leisure." I don't...

This is my modest attempt to illuminate the readers about the recent advent of "chirp" fish finder systems in the marine market pl...

There is a reason RIBs (Ridged Inflatable Boats) are favored by search and rescue organisations. Fast draining, lots of flotation, lightweig...

Is it only me? Or is it just my imagination that this is the most dangerous thing on a boat. This insidious invention only appears to be a u...

The droning, the incessant buzzing. It never stops. Day in, and day out it's alway there, burrowing through my ears, and into my head It...

Sherlock Holmes said, "When you have eliminated the impossible, what ever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." This is...

It has come to the Installer's attention, that according to the social media mavens, twitterati, and Youtubeologists, that the written w...

The grand opening of the new West Marine Flagship store a couple weeks ago in Sarasota was quite the production number, and is close as we w...