Having run the West Coast for 24 years, I can tell you that Capt J's list is a good one. It's a list that most professionally crewed vessels of...
Jeffery Siegal of Active Captain wrote a very interesting piece in his newsletter about how dangerous paper charts are, principally because...
Interesting that United Yacht Transport adopted the name once used by the Dockwise arm that transported yachts on the Dockwise semi-submersible...
"Also the article on the sale mentions that they acquired two vessels. I thought there were more vessels." There had been others. I remember...
XM or Sirius weather add ons for some electronics are just about all there is, excluding ham nets, SSB weather sources, and weather fax. One...
In follow up to my "Ask the Attorney" post, I searched all the archives and didn't find the exact question. So, I asked the attorney myself, since...
The Log boating newspaper has a regular feature called "Ask the Attorney". People write in with questions and a maritime attorney answers with a...
Pascal; does it have NMEA out to the autopilot? MBevins; my issue with vector charts is that although they're digitized from raster charts, there...
Navigation is only about one thing: Best Accuracy. If you want to rely on proprietary cartography that is a secondary (Primary?) income stream...
I bought Coastal Explorer for the simple reason that it updates all NOAA charts (that you want) in both raster and vector for free. The NOAA...
Years ago I rebuilt a dash panel with all the original gauges and switches on a 68' Roamer. I found an engraving company that did high-end plaques...
I ran a boat once that would list towards the tie-up side (floating docks!), except when the fuel tanks were full. I closed the fuel cross over...
I've been told that it was "Sow and Pigs", but I have no personal knowledge of that. The attached will show the general recovery area, as near as...
We're at Cuttyhunk, MA. harbor and heard of a sportfisher going on the reef on Wednesday in the afternoon. The next day, there was a tug with...
We have returned from the Bahamas with non-LBO guests and we were expressly instructed that they must report to Customs within 24 hours. The...
I would recommend against aluminum as it will not hold paint or powder coat over time. Plastic, either acrylic or polycarbonate work well, but if...
Virtually all larger yachts have dedicated starting batteries in addition to whatever the house configuration is. There are usually one or more 12...
It's not too clear what the circumstances are. Some responses assume that there is a power supply either from shore or a generator and that the...
There have been a lot of changes in coolant chemistry in recent years. The orange coolants are the extended use formulas, and the green ones tend...
Most dual frequency fishfinders are 50/200. We added a Garmin GMI-10 display with a NMEA 2000 transducer that sounds at 180khz. We wanted true...
