USCGS Polar Star To classify this ship as a cutter, is a nice understatement. This 122 meter piece of iron is a veritable POLAR ICEBREAKER par...
Sorry AMG, we got carried away again !! IMHO, the Russian-flagged Akademik Shokalskiy should not have been in the thick ice of the antarctic in...
120 ft long range yacht To cover the distance from Vancouver to Maui, you need a yacht with a theoretical range of about 3000 to 3200 NM. This...
Rescue the rescuer Now the Chinese Icebreaker is also stuck in packed ice. The Australian icebreaker (which has the rescued people from the...
Frigonautica or Frigoboat (.it) I can only fully agree on that brand. They also provide fully custom cooling and deep freezing lockers and top...
Diesel fuel additives Why spending so much money for fuel additives on your diesel. Google for Water-in-diesel emulsions. Very cheap and very...
Two 100m+ OceAnco projects under constcrution in Germany.. If there would be a German Yard hired as a subcontractor by this Dutch Megayacht yard...
RC Helicopter ! Thank god real helos cant do things like this. At least as far as I know :eek:...
Old Salt Blog That is a nice blog, Old Phart. I will keep reading it. Going into solid ice with your ship is a strange experience. The first...
Rogue waves Hapag Lloyd lost a pretty large special cargo vessel (Munich Express) in the late seventies due to a rogue wave in the mid atlantic....
Post Olderboater 09-04-2013 "Experience. 30+ years of boating on lakes. Boats have included jets, outboards, inboard/outboards, inboards. Sizes...
Westport 130 The Westport 130 is a nice looking yacht with a very practical layout and most probably with its GRP hull as sturdy and durable as a...
Boat performances Sorry, if my post has caused some misunderstanding. My statement about the range calcualtion was only ment as a general...
3000 NM range for westport 130 The calculation for the 3000 NM Range is only a theoretical figure, calculated with absolute ideal circumstances...
Nordhavn 52 It is not only the larger aft cockpit, it is, what is under the bottom line. Sturdy construction, seaworthiness, simple and proven...
The trawler is a Nordhavn 52. It is basically a 47 with an extended aft cockpit. In my opinion one of the best trawlers for circumnavigation and...
You do not need a 60 ft boat to stow 2 kayaks. The boat in the picture is a 50 ft Trawler. I would just stow them high enough and away from the...
Escaping from reality by living on the oceans ? Its either this way or the other way around. Both will never come and never happen. Civilization...
Crew position Welcome to the forum. Also it is not a typical crew forum, it provides vast knowledge about the big yachting world. Good luck
If you look at this web site under references / yachts, you will find some very nice high res interior pictures of "A". The picture I like the...
