These boat maintenance mistakes can cost you thousands of dollars, damage expensive equipment, and make your boat much harder to sell. From forgetting when the engine oil was changed to losing maintenance receipts, missing warranty deadlines, and letting safety equipment expire, many boat owners rely on memory until something goes wrong. In this video, we look at the most common boat maintenance mistakes and explain how better maintenance records can save money, prevent missed service, and protect the value of your boat. You’ll learn how to organize your boat maintenance history, track oil changes and repairs, store surveys, manuals and receipts, schedule future maintenance, and receive reminders before flares or other safety equipment expire. I’ll also show you VesselBook, the free digital boat logbook we built to keep your boat’s maintenance records, documents, upgrades and service history together in one place. Visit VesselBook.com and start building a permanent history for your boat today. #BoatMaintenance #SailboatMaintenance #BoatOwnership #VesselBook Lady K Swag!!! Right here: www.lady-k-sailing-shop.fourthwall.com Need a consult? Click here to drop a message: https://ladyksailing.com/consults/ Want to help support Lady K Sailing? Click here to become a Patron: http://www.patreon.com/ladyksailing Or here to make a one time donation: http://www.ladyksailing.com/team-k Follow Lady K on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ladyksailing Or Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ladyksailing/

Vesselbook is the permanent history for your boat. Keep your boat safe, store documents, and set reminders. When you sell your boat, its profile goes with it.

Historsea Channel: @Historsea What are the best small sailboats you can actually live on? In this episode, we look at three small cruising sailboats under 30 feet that make real sense as tiny liveaboard boats: the Albin Vega 27, Pacific Seacraft Dana 24, and Cape Dory 28. These are not just weekend campers with sails. They are small sailboats with real cruising reputations, practical layouts, manageable systems, and enough capability to make the liveaboard dream feel possible. We compare each boat for real-world liveaboard use, including interior space, storage, sailing ability, simplicity, cost, comfort, and the compromises that come with living aboard a small sailboat. Whether you are dreaming about affordable cruising, downsizing to a tiny floating home, or shopping for a pocket cruiser you can actually sail and live on, these three boats show how small a sailboat can be before the dream starts getting a little too cozy. Lady K Swag!!! Right here: www.lady-k-sailing-shop.fourthwall.com Need a consult? Click here to drop a message: https://ladyksailing.com/consults/ Want to help support Lady K Sailing? Click here to become a Patron: http://www.patreon.com/ladyksailing Or here to make a one time donation: http://www.ladyksailing.com/team-k Follow Lady K on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ladyksailing Or Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ladyksailing/

Lady K Swag!!! Right here: https://lady-k-sailing-shop.fourthwall.com/en-cad Need a consult? Click here to drop a message: https://ladyksailing.com/consults/ The Shannon Shoalsailer 35 might be one of the strangest cruising sailboats ever built: a 35-foot sailboat with no conventional keel, no centerboard, no daggerboards, and only about 30 inches of draft. Designed by Shannon Yachts for shoal draft cruising, the Shoalsailer 35 was built for places like the Bahamas, Florida Keys, Chesapeake Bay, Gulf Coast, and other shallow water cruising grounds where normal keelboats are constantly running out of water. In this episode, we look at the history of Shannon Yachts, why Walter Schulz designed the Shoalsailer 35, how this unusual hull shape is supposed to sail without a normal keel, and what sailing magazines like Practical Sailor, Sailing Magazine, Blue Water Sailing, and Cruising World had to say about it. We also look at a rare 2006 Shannon Shoalsailer 35 currently listed for around $120,000 and ask the real question: is this beachable shallow draft sailboat brilliant, ridiculous, or the perfect Bahamas cruising boat? Want to help support Lady K Sailing? Click here to become a Patron: http://www.patreon.com/ladyksailing Or here to make a one time donation: http://www.ladyksailing.com/team-k Follow Lady K on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ladyksailing Or Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ladyksailing/

Can you really buy a modern cruising catamaran for around $150,000? In this episode, we take a close look at the Gemini Legacy 35, a compact 35-foot catamaran that offers shallow draft, twin diesel engines, three cabins, and a 14-foot beam that can fit into many normal marina slips. With a 2014 Gemini Legacy 35 currently listed for $159,900 after a $10,000 price drop, this boat raises a serious question for anyone shopping for a used catamaran: is this one of the most affordable ways into modern catamaran cruising? The Gemini Legacy 35 was built as a smaller, more practical alternative to the big, expensive cruising catamarans from brands like Lagoon, Leopard, and Fountaine Pajot. We look at its layout, sailing performance, shallow 2-foot-10-inch draft, twin Yanmar diesels, Bahamas-friendly design, and the compromises that come with buying a compact cruising cat instead of a larger offshore multihull. If you are shopping for a used sailboat, liveaboard sailboat, affordable catamaran, or shallow draft cruising boat, this Gemini Legacy 35 review should help you decide whether this little catamaran is a bargain, a trap, or something in between. Need a consult? Click here to drop a message: https://ladyksailing.com/consults/ Want to help support Lady K Sailing? Click here to become a Patron: http://www.patreon.com/ladyksailing Or here to make a one time donation: http://www.ladyksailing.com/team-k Follow Lady K on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ladyksailing Or Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ladyksailing/