December 2017 Newsletter
After a fall boat show hiatus, the SDMC Newsletter is back on watch. Text and photos copyright © 2017 Steve D'Antonio Marine Consulting, Inc.
Photo Essay:
Exhaust Back...
A Tale of Two Messages
Text and Photos By Steve D'Antonio Copyright June 2014
From the Editor
Earlier this month I shared with subscribers my decision to resign my position as Technical Editor...
July 2020 Newsletter
Text and photos © 2020 Steve D'Antonio Marine Consulting, Inc. Photo Essay: Battery Box Installation Battery installations aren’t sexy; once installed years can go by without...
May 2016 Newsletter
Text and photos copyright © SDMC, Inc. 2016
Ask Steve: May 2015
Good day Steve! I have a question that your readers and I would benefit from, your...
June 2026 Newsletter – Avoiding Heat Shrink Butt Splice Woes
Photo Essay: Avoiding Heat Shrink Butt Splice Woes
Butt splices are ubiquitous, the average 50-foot vessel contains scores, perhaps even a hundred or more of...
May 2020 Newsletter
Text and photos © 2020 Steve D'Antonio Marine Consulting, Inc.
From the Masthead
Ever the optimist, I believe if Covid 19 isn’t yet in our wake,...
Ask Steve – July 2015
Steve, I have a 1974 Grand Banks and just moved into a new port with new slips and the shore power is GFI protected....
Ask Steve
Copyright © 2014 SDMC Inc. Steve, I have read your articles in Cruising World for years and have found them very informative. Recently I notice that the...
Ask Steve – May 2015
The Q&A posed below is in reference to a previous post to the Marine Systems Excellence E-zine, The Good Samaritan at Sea, published April...
Ask Steve – November 2014
Hi Steve, Greg Lee here. Having sold our N47 we are about to close on our purchase of N3522. The sanitation hose badly needs replacing...




