There is a plethora of information posted by other cruisers on several cruising posting boards that can be very helpful in all aspects of the cruising life from destinations to equipment to recipes to repairs...the list goes on and on. The challenge is finding the posts that pertain to the topic you are interested in. To find the posts that will help you, you would first have to visit each of several posting forums one at a time. Then the search tools on each are either difficult to use or require registration.
Here is a search tool that will search for your topic of interest on several boards at once. The boards included are:
SSCA Discussion Boards
Cruisers Forum Boards
SailNet Community
Living Aboard Forums
Cruiserlog Forum
Just type in what you are looking to get information about and and click search. You can refine your search for better results by putting your search term in quotes. "Admiral Catamaran" will deliver better results than typing ... Admiral Catamaran