When someone is selling a boat and have a buyer willing to sign a contract with 10% deposit asking for a brief sea trial, I can’t imagine the...
Usually no but you could hire someone to do that. Some captains / managers do I would probably look at storing the boat further inland, 100...
A lot of people do just that: spend the winter on a boat down south and cruise around although you can’t compare it to a condo. You don’t just...
I would not eliminate a boat because of engine hours alone, it really depends on how it was run. The number of gallons burned is more important...
Great posts. Thanks for the insight
They re beautiful and well built... in Turkey
Unfortunately you may be right. Viking is building a few MYs and they’re pretty good. Hatteras seem to have abandoned the MY market...
Ocean Alexanders are not in the same category as Fleming, Nordhaven, Selene, etc. they are modern style MYs. I have never run one but looked at...
I wonder if leaking fiberglass exhaust tubes are a common issue on Taiwan boats. Years ago I ran a Johnson 70 with an aft master and fiberglass...
You have a point but the other issues noted in the surveys raise more red flags than can be seen on May Day in beijin.
Run Forrest, run Some of the visible stuff in that survey like the exhaust issues alone would have stopped me from even going to survey and...
Here is another example, side by side Navionics and Explorer This is Galleon Point, a very nice anchorage in the Northen Exumas. I ve anchored...
None of that matters. They want to push a bigger and more expensive radar on bigger boats :)
Indeed. He Can’t find it? On a small boat it could be in the engine room as they are often plumbed to the cooling system
I think Hatteras started loosing their way back in the late 90s when they reduced the size of their aft decks on most motoryachts. This may work...
minuses to have Navnet 3D black box on the 84 which was a lot better than the new Garmins on the 110. The radar had much better range although...
During this last trip we got together with a friend who has a very nice recent 80 MY and an experienced captain to run it. The boat has a Garmin...
It’s a shame that the builder which pretty much launched Jack Hargrave career with some of the most successful small MY is dropping out of that...
Some people believe in pulling and balancing wheels every couple of years, maybe that was the case 2 1/2” shaft seem a bit light for these...
Indeed the formula is general and there will be variations depending on exact hull shape. That it was always spot on for everybody i ve run with...
