Aye mate, I can see yer wantin for a delivery now and then. Things were cooking a few years ago here in Ft. Lauderdale. Lately I have not seen...
It has been done before. Ya are lucky to have a 200 gallon tank. Hopefully it is Aluminum as opposed to to black iron? Suck up the remaining...
Good advice: I have a Perkins 4-108 in my boat and found it to be bullet proof, but not idiot proof..:D All it is asking for is clean oil...
Aye Calvin, ya seem to have a few problems... A frozen roller furling can lead to un-twisting the forestay. Been there, done that. Not good,...
Don't have many boat stories, but on airplanes a new flight attendant may be in for some fun: On a twin engine turpoprop full of passengers,...
Some insurance companies require a licensed Captain to be running the boat, whether it is the owner, or a hired hand. One company sets the...
Hmm, wrong name, but some of the details looks quite familiar... The extended aft ceiling over the enterainment cockpit, the sliding glass...
Nice shots. The boat to the left on the second picture looks like one I operated winter 2003/2004. G-dock at Bahia Mar?
Yeah, it ticked me off then: Me ego was shining just as bright as the classic yacht I had purchased 6 months earlier and spent a fortune and hard...
Well, up to 80' is a "yacht", over 80' "mega-yacht..."super-yacht is over 150' or some such number...Never heard the term giga-yacht before, but I...
Try 23 lbs over-weight, or more than 25%. (1/4) Not sure about the deep end...Care to specify? Try to pay for something you did not get....
The BBB, (Better Business Bureau) was a good thing before the internet. Nowadays most people go on "Google" before makin an expensive decision...
Great Capt. Tom. Thanks for the updates and best of luck to all involved.
Slow down tiger....I did not say that I did not belive the MFG was wrong, instead I questioned the dealer and he stated verbaly and in writing...
Yeah, an halyard can be used, but I was hoping to avoid that, hence I ordered a dink that weighted 80 lbs...
I posted similar messages on a few other bulletin boards and got some interesting responses. Came to think of YachtForums a day or two later as...
Bought a Mercury Hypalon 310 Airdeck a few months ago as the dealer promised the weight was 80 lbs, not the 103 listed on Mercury's web page....
Hmm, perhaps that is the way to go..? No payments, no insurance, minimum fuel and maintenance. I would add a mast and a sail however...:cool:
Okay Capt. Tom, looking forward to the latest info on Legacy. This case should be a text-book accident where everybody could learn a lot of...
In the US: No. The license requirement starts around 199 tons for private ownership and operation..:rolleyes: If ya want to carry pax or...
