For some license levels one can take a "refresher course" at MPT and it replaces seatime and you can renew that way.
I was talking about someone in regards to what Irma did down there. He felt it's going to seriously effect this winters yachting season since...
I know of one sportfish around 60' in Pompano Beach that you just cannot explain what happened there other than a tornado. The sportfish snapped...
Start ohming out all of the alarm senders and inspect the connections at the same time. You should have about 4 per engine: oil pressure, coolant...
There is not necessarily a direct correlation. One of the boats I run is a 2007 62' Sunseeker with 1100hp common rail Man's that holds 772...
If the engine is rated at 80% load, that is what I run it unless it provides incredibly stupid not to (for example 65% load gives you the same...
Well, the majority of diesels that go into planning motoryachts and sportfish from the various diesel engine manufacturers are the high output...
The searay is a much better built boat. It also performs much better. I have run both boats and had the sea ray in 5-7' seas and was still on...
Why on earth did you get rid of that boat for a hatteras? What speed did it cruise at and wot? 8v92's?
Apex Miami doesn't have a good reputation. I know someone that had a 65' painted, 50 percent over budget, looked horrible, and they kept...
Well from Stuart, in an express that does 28 knots....you can run at cruise North of there for most of it.....so you could either go West to Ft....
This was the problem with Zeus. With warranty repairs, I've seen the 3 companies punt the blame at each other and it being a pain to get the issue...
I have one owner with a 28 knot cruise yacht and we had been going back and forth with that discussion. I told him if he was going to run to go...
I have seen this many times. Lots of island engineering from either the owners or workers. They take a good boat and over complicate it with "...
On a 1988 65' Hatteras MY, we cut the refrigerator up in pieces to get it out. We ended up going with a tall sub zero that was narrow enough to...
I have worked directly for CMD running one of their boats for test drives at the Miami Boat Show one year. I have also run around 30 different...
The boat had large MAN's in it, they might have been 12 cylinders. I do not remember as this was back in the 1990's and I only mated on it a few...
In 1994 Ocean yachts went over the 40 knot barrier with the 53' SS. I was on that boat as a mate. The boat was named "Off Pump", my friend was...
The 53' Ocean was Oceans first large sportfish that topped 40 knots with factory power.
I had a 2007 Sunseeker soda blasted about 3 years ago.....we had a problem where all of a sudden the bottom paint and barrier coating lifted in 1'...
