BUILT TO CROSS OCEANS Twin anchors. Separate windlasses. Five control stations. A full-length protected keel. None of these things make for flashy brochure copy, but they reveal what the Fleming 78 was built to do. She's intended for long passages, offshore work, owner-operation on a serious scale, and reliability! 

PHONE ALERTS Shore power drops at 2am and the marina doesn't call. Sentinel does. Riviera's monitoring system watches battery voltages, bilge pumps, tank levels, and saloon motion, then pushes alerts to a phone. It can also trigger geo-fencing so the owner knows if the boat drags anchor.  All large boats should have telemetrics. 

THREE VIDEO TOURS ON A NEW SAILFISH Today we spotlight the new Sailfish 252 featured on "Marine Source" - a new classified website that has 2 dealer videos and one factory video on this listing, plus links to other Sailfish boats, all on one page. See pros,  cons, and data on this new boat, and then browse Marine Source for other listings.

BEFORE YOU REPLACE THEM When an engine starts acting up, it's easy to blame a dirty injector. This test shows why that's not always the case. One stubborn injector survived every test and troubleshooting trick, but it never fired.

READ BEFORE YOU GO Bimini sits 50 nm off Florida, but the entrance is poorly marked, the channel shifts with the sand, and GPS can put a boat on the bar before the slip is in sight. This Waterway Guide piece covers the approaches, the clearing-in procedure, and what to do if the wind goes southwest before arrival.

COLD MORNING The Boomershines move Sea Shine off the Mississippi and up the Ohio to Paducah at 29°F, locking through Olmsted Dam on the way. The river is running unusually low, the towboats aren't stopping quickly, and the next stop is a marina slip that may or may not fit a 56-footer.