The 130' is a nice size where you can still dock at many marina's if you wish. The 164' precludes that and you're stuck on anchor and dealing...
I disagree with Olderboater on this one a bit, he doesn't have a lot of first hand experience with pods. I've put thousands and thousands of miles...
Without a doubt a Sunseeker 52' or 55' Manhattan, given your criteria.
Cabo 40' or even the 43' FB, the 40' would be my first choice but very outside of your price range. Don't worry about MAN maintenance, it really...
I see it on the large Simrad plotters and also on Garmins. The pre-loaded garmin charts on the garmin chart plotters are my favorite though. On...
I still see major navigational issues with electronic chartplotters. There are many places where the chartplotter is so skewed in one direction...
Awlcraft 2000 from Awlgrip. It never requires waxing, just wash with the Awlwash soap. It's easily repairable and holds it's color. I had a...
95' is one hell of a large yacht for an owner-operator to operate. I would hope you plan on at least employing a full time mate/engineer and a...
And a lot of non but good WM stores will have 24 volt items. Basically just about any 1988 or newer 45'+ yacht will all use 24 volt equipment.
Napa has tons of that type of stuff in their catalog. You're talking about 2 different things. I just simply mentioned that Napa has the 12v-24v...
Yeah they sell parallel solenoids also to join two 32 volt banks together for starting purposes. Here's a place that sells all sorts of 32 volt...
They sell the solenoids at NAPA. Take a picture. Ocean loved to use big solenoids to combine battery banks to make 24 volts for starting. Last...
You're going about this all wrong. Have you considered working on one of your friends boats as a deck hand to see how the chartering even works,...
If it ain’t broke, don’t screw with it. Very easy to break 30 year old copper or bronze
No. Alcohol is paid for by the guests.
Well a day charter, you're talking about lunch...…..what I've done for example...…...a really nice arugula salad tossed in olive oil, with fresh...
You mean on the rubber hoses where they go on the flanges? People do it with sanitation hoses all of the time. However, you usually destroy 2"...
Perhaps there is some sort of language barrier because you are in Sardinia. BUT, this forum is based in the United States and here, in the...
What safety? I think you should learn the basics of how to be a proper Captain, because a lot of things you are referring to are non-issues...
Why are you so hung up on water tight compartments???????? Those old Hatteras' like Pascal's, you could drop that thing from a Port crane onto...