lots of speculation in this thread but why would anyone try to cut thru Frying Pan coming from Beaufort and heading toward charleston? makes no...
as long as it's not the one that ended up in the drink in Tx... (the clip is on Youtube and was on a number of TV channels this week...) there...
agree.. both boats are very good. you know what you have right now, you know the condition of the engines and machinery, etc... on the other...
westerbeke are good gensets, for one to fail at 42 hours suggest negligence at some point. 42hrs in 6 years is a problem... most good diesel...
Ferretti Bertram probably is even more interested in what happened!
i did the math on prop speed (36" props...) and it didn't add up. in so fl it was much cheaper to pay a diver to scrub the props every month...
hitting a container will do it, however you cant' forget the pictures of the delaminating Bertram-Ferretti off Palm Beach. if they hit something...
Common Sense should trump most rules.... in a perfect world :)
it all comes down to why you're on the water. Personally, I didn't come to this job from the commercial world because jobs on white boats was...
it's a little grey... I have never found a clear definition of a narrow channel which means that no one should forget that they still must avoid a...
well, you never know where a thread will go... one of the span was locked down when i came thru, the other one was up in the air... looks like...
while i agree that 16 should not be used for passing arrangements, unfortunately we dont' have a choice since that's the only channel monitored by...
at $3 a foot, St Aug. municipal is a rip off... i know it sounds like pocket change compared to many places in the North :) I came thru the...
As I was rounding Peanut Island in Palm Beach on my way south to Miami, I noticed a tall mast on the other side and thought... it cant' be. You're...
i agree about imiting a new boat survey to hull only, not an engine survey since the hull survey will cover the engine isntallation anyway....
this is a little long, but i thought it could be worth putting all my notes together in one post for those traveling the ICW this fall. I just got...
a survey is a must on a new boat, except maybe a small boat (under 30) with simple systems. Yes, in a perfect world you'd expec the builder and...
i just arrived in miami yesterday and i cant' think of any bridge that gave me a hard time. most guys were actaully really good at opening at the...
start with checking the power source... do they have dedicated batteries? if so , how are they charged? check the connections for corrosion,...
too far off the channel to be a steering failure, there was time to recover. I dont know if he was northbound or southbound, but going northbound...
