The Marine Installer's Rant

Chuffed is an understatement. The Marine Installers Rant took third place in the original online content category in Boating Writers Int...

The top secret Parmain laboratories don't often do product reviews, but when the opportunity presented itself to evaluate the Pearce...

I'm wet, choking, and can't breathe. Coughing, I jolt up to a sitting position, and a coin falls out of my mouth. I suck in fe...

Attention class, everyone get into your seats, and get your supplies ready. We need our template paper, scissors, a straight edge, tape,...

Kate and I watched the new Fox show Touch the other day. It's about an autistic kid who can see patterns. He spends a lot of time writ...

Borrowing Mr. Well's time machine, I roar on back to the year 2003. These were heady times. The Installer put in all of the gear you s...

Welcome to my Friday, a day of work, walking, and hundreds of pounds of AGM batteries that need to be delivered to a boat waiting at the g...

The Boating School is pleased to introduce our new elective summer course schedule, and is now accepting registrations. These courses have...

"Okay Houston, we've had a problem here." "This is Houston, say again Albin 13." "We have had a navigation in...

It was a good year for Florida beachcombers, and for the sharp eyed, there have been many treasures washed up on our shores. I don't k...

This is the boat George bought. This is the pump That lay in the boat George bought

The US Coast Guard has suddenly realized that the average weight of an american boater is now no longer 160 pounds, and has revised its ...

"Watson come if convenient, if inconvenient come anyway. Foul things are afoot on Lord Miller's yacht. Meet me at the quay. I sha...

This is the first opportunity I have had to see or install the shiny new GSD 24 Garmin sounder module. This model is replacing the venerab...

I'm sitting quietly on my client's boat reading some documents that will hopefully clarify why his MacBook Air doesn't see the...

Yossarian: Is Orr crazy? Doc: Of course he is. He has to be crazy to keep flying after all his close calls he's had. Yossarian: ...

It's not often I have allowed my visage to appear here. In fact it's only the second time. I'm not shy and retiring by any me...

"The TV won't turn on", she said, "Could you please see what's going on." "Funny I thought, it worked las...

The comet had been captured eons ago by the the sun's gravity, and has been orbiting the sun ever since. On one orbit it passed near t...

Happy Tryptophan day. This is a decidedly odd piece of fancy, even by my standards. Boat safely this holiday if your boat isn't in it...

It's right, it's wrong, or it's gray. In this case it was wrong, and it was grayish on the wrong side of the fence, which meant ...

The urgency was palpable in the service writers voice on the phone. "Could you please go and fix this guy's problem". "Wh...

The two greyhounds girls are heaved into the back of the land trawler , (spelled Kate's Tracker) and off we go to meet some friends at t...