if a surveyor doenst' spend two days checking EVERY system on the boat, he didnt' do his job. it's that simple. every surveyor i've hired,...
a Catboat is any sailboat with the mast all the way forward and usually no head sail. I say usually because early Cats were workboats (NJ, 19th...
yeah, it's a 12' Catboat, built by local builder Dave Westphal. wood and glass, junk rig, wooden mast, centerboard, 6' beam. very stable and easy...
repair shops may have used ones or teh parts to repair yours. Or they woudl know which head is compatible with the rest of your system. In FTL, I...
After waiting almost all day for rain and thunderstorms to clear, we finally dropped our tender, "Sabrosa", in the water around 7pm. There was...
the "shower pump" is probably just the sump pump which pulls water from the shower sump and dunps it over board. check your fresh water pump and...
if the control head is filled with water, sounds like it's beyond repair... jsut replace it. I lost the AP last fall jsut when leaving Nantucket...
somebody has some explaining to do, afaik, rocks just pop up overnight up there......
sad, i hope they throw the book at him... 6:30pm is still daylight!
you can't learn how to operate a windlass jsut with a quick course!! making people believe that they can do it just because they took a course it...
And fix or pay to fix the garage door, the roof, the gutters, clean the yard, the pool, etc... Or if living in a condo sign a big check every...
well, in all fairness I believe the "flexible flyer" was really about 80s vintage Oceans and one or two models only. I agree that the captain...
well, i can tell you from experience that whenever we go thru the dock gate, it really feels different... it's like leaving the city and the noise...
this winter we were docked next to a recent Ocean 60ish with enclosed FB. whenever the boat touched the piling, it made those awful loud creaking...
yeah, but a two bedroom house at that price is not on the waterfront... living aboard is not about saving money, it's about being on the water....
indeed start by cleaning the bilges and make sure that there is no puddle of diesel somewhere. usually a noticeable diesel smell indicates a...
It s real easy to install opencpn and install all NOAA charts, and it s all free! Perfect to plan trips ans look up depths etc... A much better...
depends on what you mean by heavy generator use. you can set up just about any boat with a large inverter and matching inverter bank and get...
7 kids... Gee I guess they are disposable!!
Well. Judging by the website of the production company holding the rights to the family's story there is a 14 year old trying to sail around the...
