Of course there are 50'+ boats that are better/worse than others, but that's not what you said. You said that one 55 footer among them (I don't...
Thanks to you for appreciating. Long time no seen by the way, how's things? I hope all is well. In the meantime, eventually we came back to what...
You must know nothing of Italian boatbuilding history in the last decade, if you have to ask that...
Of course my previous post was incomplete, that's why I also uploaded (in post#25) the specific schedule for the 183 TE93, as published by MTU,...
Well, did you check out the MTU abstract I previously posted? Oil change (just as an example) is indeed mentioned, and included in either W2 or W3...
Capt J, I told you in not unclear terms that I didn't agree with most of what you said, and I tried to explain why. After understanding that you...
That's the so called B60Y. Completely different animal, a sort of (failed) attempt to compete with Ferretti, Sanlorenzo, and other flybridge...
Thanks to you for your appreciation. It surely makes sense to check the maintenance history and calibrate your potential on that basis. For this...
+1. Actually, I would go with anything over IPS any day! :)
I wouldn't be too concerned by the hours per se, but if the boat was built with those engines she must be 20 years old, or almost. And according...
Well, at least that answers what I wanted to ask you, i.e. if there is a builder anywhere in the world of which you didn't helm more boats than...
Wow, good thing that Dick Bertram and Ray Hunt can't read your comments anymore. Anyway, if that's the reasoning and attitude on which basis you...
That would be your personal decision, and as such you are obviously fully entitled to it. It just happens to be a wrong one, and I can think of at...
Hardly surprising, considering that they entered an insolvency procedure already in 2013. A 2014 boat must have been a sort of leftover, with...
Well, the last time I've been at FLIBS, there weren't many US flagged pleasure boats either...
Well, after all that's the American way of doing business for you, folks... Pretty sure, Giacomo Costa rolled over in his Grave that night,...
See? That MD80 must have been from the pre-TCAS era. When it comes to see what is going on around you, trusting computers is better than trusting...
So, what do you use instead of jetliners, for long distance trips?
Well, it's an Italian Company that developed the thing. I suppose they might have been inspired by the Concordia. Their computerised system...
Generally speaking, I agree that maneuvering is NOT the hardest part of cruising. Anyone who think it is, obviously never experienced a rough...
