Category: DailyWave

Do you need a printer onboard your boat? The short answer is yes, it makes life so much easier and convenient, from printing out boat

The subject of electrical power for a boat is always a contentious one. Not sure why, but yachties seem to take great pride in NOT

Ok, what’s the difference and what you should know. Firstly AIS, Automatic Identification system, that allows other boats to track your position is based on

Turns out that autopilots are a great thing, they do a tremendous amount of work for you, quietly in the background. So what do you

When the going gets rough the tough “CLIP ON”. Simple. on longer passages we run Jack lines right around the boat so that we can

When sailing shorthanded, as Connie and I do continuously on Waiata, do you go forward during a shift when you’re the only one awake? We

When you’re cruising your often much more interested in getting somewhere than the act of sailing itself. When your out for a day sail, you

Just recently I was approached by another sailor who was setting up their Iridium GO and it had stopped working. He had tried “everything”. But

On longer journeys always remember to pull the drain plug out of your dinghy so it can’t grow heavier as the passage goes on with

Quite a few boats carry their dinghy lower than you might want given a decent following sea. Waiata is like that and although it looks