Marine Systems Excellence eMagazine

Text and photos © 2019 Steve D'Antonio Marine Consulting, Inc. From the Masthead For those who don’t know it, Taiwan is a mecca for boat building...

Photo Essay: Solderless Terminal Installation Solderless terminals, first introduced by aircraft manufacturers prior to WWII, have revolutionized the marine and many other industries.  Without them,...

Text and photos © 2021 Steve D'Antonio Marine Consulting, Inc. Photo Essay: Steering Steering, it’s one of the primary systems you simply can’t do without, along...

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...

Text and Photos By Steve D'Antonio Copyright April 2014    Onboard "alarms"fall into a variety of categories and levels of criticality.  The alarm panels shown here monitor...

Text and photos © 2019 Steve D’Antonio Marine Consulting, Inc. Photo Essay: Anchor Rode Cut-Away Lines Other than for inspections or testing, it’s a part of...

Monitoring the Secondary Fuel Filter Photo and text by Steve D'Antonio Copyright 2015 SDMC, Inc. Fuel filters, and monitoring thereof, is, or should be a fixation with...

Text and photos © 2022 Steve D'Antonio Marine Consulting, Inc. Photo Essay: Cord-Grips Electrical issues represent by far the most common problem faced by vessel operators. ...

Text and photos by Steve D'Antonio Copyright © 2016 From the Masthead When you read this I’ll be aboard MIGRATION, a Nordhavn 68, cruising among the islands of Norway’s...

Text and photos by Steve D’Antonio Copyright © 2016 Photo Essay: Boiling Water with Batteries A few years ago the thought of boiling water using battery power would have...