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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...

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...

Text and Photos By Ralph Naranjo  Copyright June 2014    Like bookends of keel design, these two under body extremes reflect how keel loads can be tightly focused or...

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...

Text and Photos By Steve D'Antonio  Copyright May 2014   While some alarms afford users a simple convenience, a warning regarding a nearly full holding tank for...

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...

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...

By Steve D'Antonio  Copyright February 2014  Engines will often continue to run even when filters are extremely contaminated, as are the ones shown in this image....

By Steve D'Antonio  Copyright January 2014    Electrical interference can take on several forms, including electromagnetic or EMI, and radio frequency, or RFI.  In the latter...

Text and photos by Steve D'Antonio Copyright December 2013    Fifteen or more years ago this is what commonly passed for a crankcase ventilation "system". The orange juice...