Maintenance & Refit

A cruising yacht stays reliable because somebody keeps looking closely. Maintenance & Refit is the less glamorous side of Aurelia Blue and one of the most important. Here we document inspections, repairs, upgrades, experiments and the long list of jobs that sits behind every sailing season. Some are major projects; others begin with a washer, a cable, a pump or a strange noise that deserves attention. We also write about the places and people involved in keeping an ocean yacht working in the Caribbean. The category is deliberately broad, because boats keep teaching their owners new things. What matters is not pretending that nothing ever breaks, but showing the process of noticing, understanding and improving before a small issue becomes a large one.