Not to mention on their propellers: more likely a day than a month.
The reason was the good old one that always drives boatbuilders choices, i.e. cost. The 1360hp MAN V12 was the last built upon the archaic OM400...
Commercial aviation is full of pilots who could have never written a book like Highest Duty. But assuming that because of this there was no issue...
+1. I have a funny feeling that by the time that kind of moisture ingress (if any) can become a real problem, it's time to scrap the whole boat...
If like me you've got scuba rechargeable flashlights onboard anyway, that's a zero cost alternative. And it works as well on the tender as on the...
I also don't like the wedges option, and as I said I think lights would work well also pointing diagonally downwards. But having said that, at...
I mostly use them pointed towards the bottom, for two reasons: firstly, most of my preferred anchorages are in no more than 20 feet of depth, and...
I can think of a couple of boats that I've seen with a similar transom. Both from small Italian builders, whose name is irrelevant, but I can see...
Well, that is indeed crappy stuff, I must admit. No big deal to replace the Jabsco chinese stuff with a proper Gianneschi pump and forget about it...
Yeah, I can imagine. The pandemic situation is still rather hit and miss at the moment, with occasional improvements followed by some new...
Aha, 3/4M did sound low for a new boat. Well, "low" relatively speaking, of course... :)
I'm not up to speed with new boat prices, but 3/4 of a million for a brand new 55 footer sounds hard to beat to me, even if of course you won't...
Unless my memory fails me, they are not even glued - possibly aside from some specific points. But that's by design: there are very good reasons...
True in general, but you might be in for a pleasant surprise with your new boat, in this respect. I can't be positive with that specific model,...
+1. I got them more years ago than I can remember, and I've yet to try anything that works better. The Pelican hard case they come with (or used...
+1. That said, u/w lights are great for a night swim while anchored in total darkness. In fact, I've had friends onboard who would have never...
No first hand experience on vessels as big as this Turkish thing, but up to 100' or so, I can't remember to have ever seen any boat built from a...
How anyone wealthy enough to afford a 250+ feet hobby can at the same time be so obtuse to have it built by the same folks who produced the epic...
Interesting to hear that... "Sea water system is electrically bonded, so there is no longer zinc anodes to replace." I always wondered why they...
Ok, I was talking of human size boats, where even the quietest genset is still audible. That said, if your chef doesn't prefer cooking with gas,...
