Just about every boat that goes to and from San Pedro takes that route, 98% of them. It's no different than taking the devils backbone to Harbor...
What on earth are you talking about??? The owner took the boat through there the first time as he was a native Belizian and had property in San...
His license was 1600 ton unlimited master at that time. I don't think the USCG issues a higher license. There may be other factors, such as...
Depends on the boat and the situation. I ran over a sandbar in Belize, there's 2 islands you have to do an S curve through if you take the bay...
The Coast Guard has not spoken on his route and I don't think the Captain called them up and asked them when choosing his route. The insurance...
The Captain had reports that the Hurricane was intensifying, he had weather reports on the location of the storm and the direction/speed it was...
No matter how mis-treated I've seen boats, having structural issues with transom and delamination and those types of things are very rare and...
I couldn't imagine the impact a category 5 will have on Mexico.
I wouldn't touch anything with Balsa, it wicks water like an absorber chamois...... Cracked stringers under aft berth and delamination at transom...
I agree with all this. And, after surveying 2 of these boats with major problems how can you say they're well built boats?
It could be, the hose should be labeled as to the size (usually).
What the Captain thought was a safe route, going directly through the Hurricanes projected path and hoping to cross it's path hours before it, was...
Can it be patched, probably. Would I patch it, no.
No I don't. I think the easiest route would be to find new fiberglass mufflers with similar dimensions and install them with wire bound exhaust...
I hope they are able to locate the ship and retrieve it's black box and it's working. The depth puts them (NTSB and US Navy) at a big disadvantage.
Chances are if the muffler is leaking, if it's metal all of the material is in poor shape. Most likely without seeing it, I'd recommend replacing...
The USCG issued a Hurricane warning for the area. That is an overwhelming reason to take the safe route. Do you not think that even if the El...
Boat mounted is too restrictive IMO. You could get the floating third lung and still leave it in the boat if need be. For boat maintanence, I...
Well, the USCG refused to send a search and rescue crew out to look for the El Faro until after the Hurricane force winds subsided, so that ought...
The old 2 stroke Detroit Diesels in most of the yachts the OP is looking at, use about 1/2 as much fuel at 1000 rpms or below than 4 cycle diesels...
