THE BLOG

Buying a catamaran? Here's some useful resources from people who've been there, including a handover checklist, tap tests video, and yacht broker insights.

Step by step, here's how we changed our flying sail furler from a continuous to a discontinuous furling system that runs back to the helm.

After rebonding every window on our sailboat, here's the step-by-step process we used to replace the marine glass and plexiglass windows aboard.

In this tutorial I walk you through the steps to view your fuel flow rate on the Yanmar marine diesel engine interface while motoring.

Our Leopard 45 came from the factory equipped with two 4JH45 marine diesel engines. It's a Yanmar common rail 4-cylinder inline diesel, and like all engines it requires regular checks and routine servicing to help it in top shape. In this quick guide I'm going to run you through what we think are the key things to know about basic maintenance for the Yanmar 4JH45 and Yanmar 4JH57 marine diesel motors, including the service intervals, tools we keep aboard and main parts you'll

Here are 17 places you can source marine equipment and yacht related supplies, tools and contractors from in Cape Town, South Africa.

Tap testing is a handy diagnostic tool for fiberglass boats that was invaluable during warranty repairs of our Leopard Catamaran.

A midway step is a must-have for docks that sit between transoms and side deck exit, so here's our design we created for our catamaran.

A method for bonding saildrive rubber boots to yacht hulls, which in our case is the Yanmar SD60 saildrive.

Learn how to check the valve clearances and find top dead center on a Yanmar 4JH45, 4JH57, 4JH80 and 4JH110 marine engine.

We installed STEINBAUER PowerModules on our Leopard 45 Catamaran's Yanmar 4JH45 engines, and what a positive difference it has made!