FirstMate Blog

Practical guidance for yacht owners, engineers, and crew on vessel documentation, maintenance planning, fault finding, and service history.

Practical guidance for yacht owners, engineers, and crew — focused on vessel documentation, fault finding, maintenance planning, and service history.

Marine Engine Manual: Speed and Precision at Your Fingertips

Digging through a 300-page PDF for one torque figure or part number costs time you don’t have onboard. Why manual lookups are slower than they should be, and how to fix it.

Where Your Vessel Documentation Actually Hides

Vessel documentation scatters across paper manuals, email threads and crew memory. Where it hides, what that costs, and how to bring it into one place.