DeFever builds (or built) a line of trawlers. They moved operations from Taiwan to PRC in the mid-'90s and set up shop in Suzuho (sp?) on the...
Not much more in the way of new news, but rather a finer point of what the Feds/Customs is up to. * The issue is duty due on foreign-built...
Listen: some things are just not supposed to happen. Or, conversely, per the coarse colloquialism, 's**t happens'. There are worse things than...
Great vid, Brian! Antique winches, galore. The French really did take the design to the limit, huh. Speaking of the '60s, and a continent + an...
Kudos, BaysideBert, for a really gorgeous interior--looks like a Hinckley! Back in the mid-eighties, the accounting department at Bertram...
....can see it coming like a left hook: Murray Brothers chairs [et al] equipped with a seat belt, side/fore/aft airbags deploy when the boat...
Somebody has to have invented a plastic 'fire plug' that could be secured to the deck for Fido to do his #1 on. If not, Andrew, go right ahead and...
Interesting points you all offer. As far as the discounting goes, I recall various large business transactions (not mine, sadly) where the...
With 6'7" headroom, your kids ought to fit. The numbers for a 1980 boat... LOA 28' LWL 23'4" Draft 2'7" Height above WL to aft sheer...
This just in off The Coconut Telegraph in Fort Lauderdale: the Feds are confiscating Ship's Papers off various large yachts--foreign-built,...
There are SAE papers to document & prove all that, right?
The YF Schadenfruede Detector's red light is flashing...
Thanks for sharing that article, Peter. With standards of living on the upswing, it would seem that China will develop a burgeoning middle...
In partial defense of Jimbo, and from my limited experience of observing the guys twisting the wrenches, one can [correctly] adjust the buffer...
An authority here in the office suggests placing the clamshells at right angles to the seafood forks.
First, congrats Carl, for making the Big Numbers. Thanks to all who contribute to the knowledge base..you know who you are. Now, as to the...
According to the tide tables, this would have been about an hour after dead (sorry) low tide; pretty skinny water for running the surf. Whether...
+1 According to a knowledgeable source, Tom Henry was a lawyer out of Maryland in his previous life who chose to become a charter skipper twenty...
Same boat? Coincidence? Mistaken length? (12 of 20) Vessel Name: MAKIN WAVES USCG Doc. No.: 1168681 Vessel Service: RECREATIONAL IMO...
Thanks, Propbet, for that. Growing up in boats from an early age....we are the luckiest souls on the planet. A young couple with kids...
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