http://www.woodenboat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=99253
http://www.youdagames.com/Youda-Marina-game-info-3284
http://cbs4.com/local/Fisher.Island.Boat.2.1126114.html
http://www.mptusa.com/ These people would be happy to answer all your questions.
What about an Offshore or a Marlow? I'd have to double check but I believe they can cruise in the 20s with the right engines.
Did you have a "little person" along to do your engine room work/checks? Or is there more room down there with the "small" Volvos?
Sailing is fun and a good learning tool. But unless he intends on just captaining big sailboats, and even if that is true, it's time he starts...
I'd look at gyro stabilizers for full time stabilization even at the dock with nothing hanging below the hull. Considering that the boat will...
Perhaps design the crews cabins with something like Pullman type bunks so when you need more crew their are berths for them. But when you don't...
I don't see why. There is nothing I mentioned that a motivated 14 year old could not at least start to learn to do.
Start working now to learn anything and everything you can about boats, their systems and how to maintain them. Learn to varnish, wash and wax,...
Well, if charter work is in it's future then I'd say 4 master/guest cabins with at least two of the guest cabins being equal in size and layout....
Amen brother!
After the metal was soda blasted they applied a structural material to fill the pits then over coated it with the more paint like product.
Ah, the Kelly girl. She is apparently clueless and I didn't think she was an employee of Dockwalk either. But I could be wrong on that. If I...
This may be old news to some, but, on the aluminum boat I have recently taken over we found damage to the hull from some improperly stored lead...
I read it as mechanical failure of some kind and not the captains fault. Doesn't read as deflamitory to me Ken.
So it wasn't due to mechanical failure?
"pretty common", really? Maybe it's a Miami day boat charter thing. But most of the big boat captains and crews I see on a regular basis,...
Like I said, everybody has a bad day for what ever reason. :D And F-ups like that don't happen very often. So I'd guess there isn't much, if...