If you enjoy anchoring out, you may consider a mooring. The 70 footer i run spends the summer on a mooring in nantucket and it works out very well...
Norseman if you had helped your neighbor taking that beautiful sailboat to the bahamas, you would have had more days for your renewal :)
I'm pretty sure the USCG transfered all license processing to a central location a year or two ago supposedly to improve processing times (it was...
my Norpro 18 uses a Marathon Alternator, its manual has a procedure to flash the windings on initial install or whenever needed. Never had to do...
Bill has a point about storage on the OWW but keep in mind that they often close one or more locks for maintenance in the summer. Can't always...
even with glass hulls, you want to do the alignment in water, NEVER on the hard.
few yards, not a lot of space, high property taxes and the need to haul out boats when a hurricane comes this way... you may have more luck in...
relying on AC power for nav equipment is not very wise to say the least. If the boat doens't have any inverters to take over if the genny goes...
a few years back i was on receiving end of a PHP upgrade by the server guys... no warning until i started getting emails than things were "not...
good thing YF is not located in NOLA, everything would have been looted! btw, just got this error message when trying to delete a duplicate post:...
i dont know... I haven't seen too many plotters using hard drives! :)
saying that all 38-42 boats are same (for some reason, I find it difficult to use the word "motoryacht" to describe production 40 footers) is very...
any decent graphic artist at any printing, embroidery shop should be able to convert a good picture to a line art drawing. Most graphic software...
well, if one tries to claim ignorance as an excuse to do something dangerous or stupid, they deserve it, dont' they? that i agree with you......
Welcome ALE, where do I start... :) first, about the additional liabilitly exposure of having a license, whenever someone brings up this urban...
understood, but some folks may want to leave the boat somewhere, take a 2 week break from cruising to fly home and come back... or they may want...
I realize that this thread is a year old but this is plain stupid. Any recent development on how this has been enforced since this first heads up?...
i'm not sure they're still around. We have a 15' Rendova (about 5 years old), very nice tender. Very quick with a 50hp Yamaha 4 stroke, and...
using a spring line to hold the tender alongside the swimplatform works pretty well. The biggest issue is to make sure the tender doesn't get...
possible, but i also think we have too many analysts in this world... remember that not so long ago these "experts" were predicting $200+/barel!
