Dec 2, 2023 | Boat Maintenance
Winter is coming – it is time to prepare your boat. A Winter Closing Up list needs to be tailored to your boat, your location and your intentions. To help prompt the right sorts of questions on what needs doing on your boat, Boat Chat has pulled together a...
Oct 2, 2023 | Boat Maintenance
There are several boat fire safety lessons to be learned from the cargo fire on the bulk vehicle carrier ‘Fremantle Highway’ in July 2023. The fire caused the loss of several hundred vehicles, the death of an Indian crew member and forced the crew to abandon the...
Sep 15, 2023 | Boat Maintenance
A safe LPG (Liquefied Petroleum Gas) installation on a boat is most often a simple installation with several built in safety features. The best way to assess any system is to follow the LPG pathway from cylinder to appliance. The PDF file below contains some simple...
Jul 26, 2020 | Boat Maintenance
Sacrificial anodes are something every boat owner should be aware of, yet not every boat owner will need them. The principle is quite simple; the material that your boat is made of and the environment in which you keep it has the propensity to cause serious metal loss...
