What an an outstanding story, and thanks for sharing! My father used to speak fondly of his Nash Metropolitan. Being friends with Dave Ash, the...
They are quite fun, but out of my league for a few years unless business picks up drastically again.
This came to my attention today through a friend in Grand-Am racing: Speed Racer Missing Trailer The backstory from the boat team's owner: last...
Cindy Purcell, granddaughter of Frank Pembroke Huckins has recently embarked on a journey to visit every Huckins that survives. The journal of...
OP - No. 1854: Rocking Boats explains it quite simply.
A pendulum or a metronome have mechanical forces holding them in place, but with sufficient outside force those mechanical forces can be overcome....
Ward vs. the search engine! Congratulations, you know how to search key words, but even a basic understanding of a reaction force would allow the...
In order: Why? Because Marmot tends to bray like an ass at any given opportunity, puffing his chest out as though he has some monopoly on...
That doesn't completely work either because you're still approaching the matter as if the boat is a freely spinning object about an axis. It's...
"Centrifugal force" is fictional no matter how many pieces of paper you have to claim yourself an "expert" about boats, guy. Knowing one's way...
I'd buy something that fits in the bathtub, then buy a place with a really big bathtub. The largest motoryacht I'd contemplate would be in...
Without intending to be pedantic, why worry about something fictional?
Dry Martini has been on the market for several years, with a price that has been spiraling downward the entire time. She may still be the perfect...
These Vent, Clamshell, 3-3/4"L x 3-1/2"W x 1/2"H 331375-1 - SeaDog Line Vents Blowers and Hose @ MarineEngine.com could easily be powdercoated....
You're looking at Orion the Hunter? The Kirkline convertibles have an outstanding reputation for their construction. They're lightweight with a...
Glass over wood started in the 1950s. Si-Go was one of the earliest to be glassed at the factory, but I don't know for sure which hull was the...
It's a photo of a photo, but here's Si-Go in her prime years:
I spent about an hour on the phone with the listing broker today giving him information on the boat and correcting a couple of errors in the...
Huckins are light, but that doesn't keep them from being pretty good competition for the mentioned brands up to about 5' seas. Then the weight...
This old chestnut... Care to quote market share off the top of your head? It's currently about 10% - somewhere around 10 million sold a year....
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