I wish I had a dime for every time I checked a route in the GPS and found bouys marked as way points.
Cheap ones are on ebay for under $200 "buy it now" price. You'll need to grind back to clean in places so you'll need electricity. I'm assuming...
That's good, it really isn't as big of a deal to do right as you think, You can rent plasma cutters, and long magnetic straight edges are...
Crazy? No, there's a bunch of ways to take care of this, but the right way is to cut away the rotten metal back to good (from your pictures I'd...
Well, I don't store tenders below deck so I didn't have that issue to deal with. What I came up with for fuel storage was this. They're 4 212...
Not all sea states at WOT, but I usually cruise at 75-80% power in the 61 Viking SC with 1100 common rails, and that will give me right between 27...
Hmmm... I guess the new way will make it down to the Lloyds office here in Aus in a couple of years, because they just made me do radiuses on some...
I guess your idea of "looks pretty good" and mine are different. IMO you have a good bit of metal to remove and replace. You'd be wise to invest...
It depends on their situation. I have a guy, he trades his boat in every 2 years. For him, the extra hours at sale time are more expensive to him...
You've got that a bit backwards. Delivery skippers are running flat out because the owner is on the phone going "But I've got guests flying in on...
"Should" being the operative word in that sentence. I don't know of anyone who will beat them that hard, it's too painful. Remember, this is a...
I run through there regardless the weather in anything 6' draft or less, the risk of hitting anything is very low even if you don't see the...
I shoot through the crack every time going Charlston-Beaufort NC. It's not close to a straight line. Even on a 30kt boat it saves about an hour,...
It depends on the load it was carrying. Anywhere from 4000hrs to 10,000hrs is what I'd expect. There is catch in that though, and that is how much...
They're rebuildable, the question is, is it worth rebuilding or replacing with something new.You probably won't be able to tell until you do the...
Well, it should be 5083 Aluminum, so why paint it at all? If you have bare metal, just leave it, or Alodine it. If you already have paint and are...
Keep your Bertram.... There is nothing "better" about that Hatt.
Neither did the guys at Oceanco.....:(
To: All aspiring Yacht Designers... From: The guy who has to drive them, maintain and repair them... Please, go to sea for a few years, and work...
One more factor to consider on the diving/salvage angle, is the NTSB going to get involved? Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. If it's a new...
