When I origionally tested for my USCG 100 ton master, I could have taken the test for a 200 ton Mate at the same time. I would have been 100 ton...
NO, but what I was trying to get across is that there is a license you can get with Little or NO seatime, and then when you have achieved the...
I agree with what everyone else is saying but would like to add this. Get yourself a full time Captain at least for the first year. There is a...
Right now you are going to have A LOT of competition in getting a deckhands job. There are a lot of seasoned deckhands looking for work....
They do great work...... but do have a knickname of "rob the rich and spendmore" but if you get firm quotes you should be pretty good.
Nobody wants an Aluminum sportfish due to the noise they put out while fishing and maintanence. If speed and strength are sought in a...
The jetdocks work well for a small boat and you can put a ring on the jet dock at the boats midship and run the line through the ring and foward...
I agree with Marmot, I don't think the 60 ton ticket will help you much better outside of Canada. There are only two forms of Licensing that are...
I don't think it's a calibration issue because the software still shows the tank size as 200 gallons and when the tank is completely full it shows...
No, if a yard asks if you have insurance that only applies to subcontractors working on a vessel. If you are the Captain or crew, tell them that...
One of the boats I manage and have managed since new is a Boston Whaler Outrage 27 that has twin Mercury Verado 225hp engines with the...
You could turn the pump around 180 degrees and mount it upside down and get the same direction. It should be ok to remove the nuts and mount...
Yeah but think of the hassle and cost of maintaining 4 engines.
I've found that the catamarans do very well in moderate seas. BUT, when the weather kicks up and the waves are large enough to hit the center...
He's talking about putting them in a Sportfish I'm pretty sure. The Sportfish guys want to cruise at 30+ knots these days. The Sportfishes can...
Yeah, what he said.
The injectors are opened such a minute amount that they don't meter and/or flow the fuel properly at such a small percentage of fuel flow. The...
I have run a few 54' Hatteras SF's from 2004 to newer. All 3 of them have had the C30's and they are a great riding/running boat with the C30's....
A lot of the older mechanical engines will get very sooted up running at hull speed. Say 1000 rpm's or less for the older Detroits, Cats, MTU...
So what happens when a few of them go bad???? You have to test all 2,000 of them to find which ones? We all know that after a year of use, the...
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