Dockline Blog

The endless adventure and flexibility delivered by a trailerable boat are awesome. You can fish or cruise virtually any waters within driving distance, just as long as the weather and the bite are right. But boat trailers also come with ...

Whether you bought your boat a week ago, a year ago or a decade ago, one thing is for sure: You want to keep it as well-protected as possible. Keeping a boat under cover means soft goods such as seat ...

Ask a boater to list everything they periodically service and chances are their trailer hitch would come last. Or else it wouldn’t even make the list. The fact is that your trailer hitch doesn’t need much attention, but it does ...

Over the last several decades, technology has changed boating for the better. It’s not only the “smart” technology, like digital controls and electronic fuel injection, that are improving the boating experience. The technology of materials science has also evolved, allowing ...

As utilitarian as a boat trailer might seem, making sure you choose the right trailer type can make the process of launching or loading your boat much easier. The main consideration is whether your trailer should have bunks or rollers. ...

Trimming your sterndrive engine properly has many benefits, including helping your boat to plane faster, perform better and use fuel more efficiently. If you are used to driving an outboard-powered boat, you will find that trimming a sterndrive boat is ...

We’ve all seen the reality TV shows set in Alaska, replete with eccentric, hard-bitten men and women in an epic struggle to survive in a beautiful – yet completely unforgiving – environment. Like all so-called reality programming, they are but ...

“Etiquette” is basically an old-fashioned word for good manners. While one of the many joys of boating is that it lets us go our own way and do our own thing, we still must share the water with other boaters. ...

Success at the professional ranks of competitive fishing often comes down to mastering the variables that can be controlled and managing the ones that can’t. Those variables range outside of the usual things you’d expect to have influence a fishing ...