Oil Change Fundamentals
A Steve D’Antonio Marine Consulting client recently sent me an e mail inquiring about the proper procedures for an oil change. She didn’t have...
Editorial: Island Lady Fire Analyzed – Feature: Understanding and Preventing Aluminum Corrosion
Text and photos copyright © 2018 Steve D’Antonio Marine Consulting, Inc. From the Masthead
With the fall boat show season in our wake, the Marine Systems Excellence...
Feature: Damper Plates – Editorial: It’s Dangerous Out There
From the Masthead
It’s Dangerous Out there; Pay attention, your life, limbs, or eyesight, may depend on it. When I was a U.S. Naval Sea...
Heat Exchanger TLC
Text and photos © 2020 Steve D'Antonio Marine Consulting, Inc. From the Masthead A few months ago, while carrying out an inspection on a new vessel,...
Taiwan Log Book
Taiwan Logbook By Steve D’Antonio
Photos by Steve D'Antonio and Ta Shing Ta Shing
Skilled and experienced staff are a prerequisite for any successful boat building operation. The...
Risk Assessment for Offshore Passagemaking – Pt 1
Risk Assessment for Offshore Passagemaking Steve D'Antonio
All photos copyright Steve D'Antonio Part I
In part one of this two part series I'll discuss the means by which...
Inverter Installations; What You Need to Know
From the Masthead
August 2014 August has been a busy month for SDMC, I began writing this editorial in a hotel room in Xiamen, China. From...
Planning for and Dealing with A Sinking Ship
By Dick Stevenson Copyright March 2014 Dick and Ginger Stevenson's Valiant 42, Alchemy, underway off the coast of Turkey.
A strategy for managing a flooding situation aboard your...
Fuel Tank Installation
From the Editor What’s right with the marine industry? That’s right, I said what’s right. During my twenty year career as a marine journalist, I’ve...
The Good Samaritan at Sea
From the Editor
I’m composing this month’s column as I sit in the pilothouse of a 68-foot trawler, moored at Limehouse Basin, London, the UK. ...