Find your way
Site map
A plain map of the public site, marine guides, field notes, member help, and portal entry. Machine-readable companion: sitemap.xml.
Marketing
- Home
Launch offer, positioning, and path into guided troubleshooting and repair solutions.
- Pricing
Free Deckhand, Lifetime Dockside, Harbor Pilot, Ocean Watch — checkout wires when Stripe is live.
- Community
How members share outcomes and stay in the loop.
- About
Brian Downing — PE, USCG Master, liveaboard perspective behind the site.
- Privacy
How we handle member and visitor data.
- Terms
Use of the site and membership expectations.
Member help & portal
- Member Guide
Start your account with a magic link, update the boat profile, submit asks, follow history — for new members.
- Member portal — sign in
Passwordless magic-link entry. Member-only pages (home, boat, ask, history, case, account) stay behind sign-in and are not listed for search indexing.
Marine guides (Top 10)
Technical cruising guides — not the same as the Member Guide above.
- Guides hub
Index of the Top 10 practical troubleshooting guides.
- Battery banks that sag
House-bank voltage discipline and overnight loads.
- Alternator output underway
Charging reality when the engine is running.
- Nuisance breakers
Trips that look random until you measure.
- Shore power heat
Warm plugs and pedestals that deserve respect.
- Communications redundancy
Keeping a path open when one link fails.
- Corrosion hotspots
Where salt and current meet metal.
- Plotter & radar dropouts
Nav electronics that blink at the wrong time.
- Anchor alarm power
Keeping watch gear awake without killing the bank.
- Inverter mysteries
Fault lights, loads, and shore personality.
- Water in electronics
Salt spray recovery and damp lockers.
Field Notes (blog)
- Field Notes index
Short cruising notes from the electrical and systems side.
- Alternator output under load
- Battery bank balancing
- Ground faults at sea
- Starlink & Iridium redundancy
- Shore power heat warning signs
- NMEA backbone faults
- Overnight load discipline
- Corrosion is never random
- Inverter load personality
- Salt spray recovery