When your life and your livelihood depend on your motors you tend to take better care than when you have more money than sense and your priority...
"Diesels are meant to run hard" means long hours and pushing heavy loads. It definitely doesn't mean constantly at WOT or below rated cruise...
More discussion will just make your head spin more. My question would be how much faith you have in your mechanic. He's the one who'll face you...
So good to hear someone smart enough to carry paper charts and I'll bet you know how to plot and follow a course on them too. :D GPS goes back...
Everything about choosing a boat, whether a yacht or a dink, is compromise. First consideration has to be planned use. A RIB looks best on deck,...
The BW 13 sport is not the old cathedral hull we remember from our youth. Check it out. It's also a stable bow platform for casting . And she's...
Trouble is when you get down to 14' do you think you could stand on that bow casting without going overboard? Do you think you'd want to come up...
Btw if you'd like to look into aluminum boats simply Google that. there are several types is that size range, but my recommendation would still be BW.
Aluminum wouldn't cut it. At 14' you'd have the same stability and swamping issues as with a flats boat, and I doubt you'd want something light...
Yep, that's me (or it used to be). Once drove cross country, 4 days, on 5-10 minute power naps.
Most of us here are coastal cruisers and we generally don't single-hand extended blue water cruising. But there's a lot that do all around the...
You do get locked on only one view of things is valid sometimes, but that comes from you generally knowing what you're talking about. My wife...
Heck I'm sure a lot of people sleep while they drive their cars.:confused:
Agree with the size. As for weight I think a flats boat would be lighter than a Whaler, but you'd pay for that when it throws you overboard.
Hence why I couldn't do it. :cool: I have trouble taking a nap even with someone else at the helm unless I know them real well. However all...
There was another boat I was trying to think of but drew a blank. Carolina Skiff was it. Thanks.
It's not something I could ever do personally but it's done all the time with sail and fishing boats. Put a collision alarm on your radar and the...
Nice enough boats, but it looks like their smallest boat is 16'4". The thing that gets me about this idea is that you're dealing with a single...
That's what happens when you buy in a seller's market. Why negotiate when there's more buyers than boats. Selling at the top of the market is...
They did a great job of keeping the fire contained and knocked down, especially considering they had water trouble.
