Honestly, I'm not "The YachtForums Guy" He's YachtForums (aka: Carl), and I'm just a regular old Joe (PropBet) who was lucky enough to score a...
Oh boy- Here we go again! If you want to support your child sailing the world, that's fine. But if he or she needs rescuing, you need to post a...
Welcome to the forum. 72' is a fair amount of boat as an owner / operator. I'd consider an engineer and a first mate who are cross trained to...
I simply wanted to say "Thank You!!! Carl" Not only are you an expert in knowing when or where to ask if a hull is steel or aluminum, ;) you...
Thank you. I haven't had a laugh like that for a good week or two. :)
I was curious about that. Thank you for the confirmation.
^^Agreed^^ Fleming / GB, then Marlow. We did a lot of long and hard searching for what we thought would be the best boat for our use. Several...
He won the lottery 5 year ago. With a new fetish of a boat hobby, he very well could be busto by now!
I have to say "Undecided" not be cause you're the admin / you figure it out, but because I know the admin / technical side of vB, and know that...
FLIBS for sure. Monaco might fall in as a solid second.
I don't know if Hacker Craft will do anything that big, but it's worth a look. I know two people with custom boats from them, and they are truly...
I'm no expert but something tells me you have an issue *under* the paint, rather than with the paint itself. Cleaning or painting over is only...
HAA!! Even the ones that the surveyor, sellers, and brokers tell you "really, she's a dream, never a lick of trouble!" There's a reason the...
This one takes a little more time and effort, but we use it once in a while for gear at decks....
I gotcha. And please let me be clear, I wasn't being critical of your decision of knocking that. It read as though you had learned of prior poor...
Other than first hand accounts of people saying they are terrible? I don't understand that logic, but to each his own. Perhaps there was...
For as early as you are in the process, (mind you, this isn't necessarily a bad thing) figure roughly $1,000 per foot per year. This will of...
gmail. Beautiful spam filtering tools. I forward all of my various accounts to gmail, allow them to filter, pull / sort from there to each...
I was kind of thinking the same thing. Seems the perspective and the height of the windows on the main and bridge, and top deck(s) are a little...
An education and a great story! Very cool Pascal! And darn near perfect timing in running across them in the channel.