Editorial: Soliciting Negative Feedback – Feature: Of Piston Rings, Cross Hatch, Blow-By and Carbon
From the Masthead
Soliciting Negative Feedback If you are a parent, then you know the last thing young children and adolescents want to hear is criticism,...
May 2024 Newsletter – Not A Cord Grip
Photo Essay: Not a Cord Grip
These are small, inexpensive, and readily available parts, and they are critically important; without them the worst-case result can...
A Boat Buyer’s ‘Top Ten’ Guide to a Pre-Offer Evaluation Part I – ...
From the Masthead
It’s no understatement to say access to critical machinery, engineering and bilge areas is vitally important. It’s a subject on which virtually...
Photo Essay – April 2015
Bilge Pump Plumbing
By Steve D'Antonio All photos and text copyright SDMC, Inc. 2015 ‘A menagerie of disparate plumbing components’ would be an apt caption for this...
Photo Essay – December 2015
Letter from the Editor
As I write this editorial I’m sitting aboard a train bound for Schiedam, in the Netherlands, on my way to visit...
Good Seamanship Makes for Good Safety
Letter from the Editor
There’s nothing like an extended voyage to sharpen one’s technical and aesthetic senses. In my case, such passages serve to keep...
Feature Article: Bottom Paint Halos, what causes them and how to prevent them from...
From the Masthead
“You don’t need reporting smoke alarms, you have insurance” A few years ago, while working with a client on a new build project,...
November 2018 Newsletter
Photo Essay: Hull to Deck Joint
Few boat building interfaces are as important as the one that occurs between the hull and deck. The loads...
Ask Steve – January 2014
Hello Steve, We are in the planning stages for our next sail boat. It will be a new off-shore mono haul, 54-60 LOA (Oyster /...
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
After receiving the following letter from a consulting client a discussion on the subject of CO poisoning seemed in order. Steve, After recalling reading something on...









