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Can TFers recomend a surveyor in the Miami area for a pre-purchase survey? The vessel is an 18 year old fiberglass single inboard diesel priced at $100K.

Responding to the OP, Muirgen: That's a creepy story. I don't blame you at all for elevating to DefCon 1, and am so glad that the incident ended without conflict. I do wonder about something not mentioned in your account: was Muirgen monitoring VHF channel 16? If so, did either vessel attempt...

Congrats on your salty-looking Finn 8, Rod, and good luck with all projects. Such a handsome boat.

Welcome sailors, home from the sea. What a great trip!

As Red Green used to say, "If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."

That's annoying, but not too surprising. Did the charter company staff try steering you to a different boat in their fleet? That has happened to me with other bareboat charter operators, who for various reasons were unable to rent me the boat they had advertised and that I inquired about, but...

Welcome aboard the TF, Tjome! You have good taste in boats, as the GB classics are beautiful and well-built. Unfortunately, they tend to age poorly unless scrupulously maintained. The common pain points are decks, windows, fuel tanks and electrical systems. Keeping up with the brightwork is a...

Maybe the OP meant to say "Lexington Market," as the Reading Terminal (which is amazing) is in downtown Philadelphia. Happy mistake, though, as now I know about the Lexington Market, which I'd been ignorant of before. So thanks! As to significant changes in B'more, I suspect the other post was...

Fair point, but anchoring in rough conditions is admittedly infrequent (I hope!) and that's the sort of situation where I and every other sensible mariner is being cautious and alert. No, I am thinking more about the routine situations like docking or locking through in a canal, where you're...

Thanks, Nick. Yep, a lot of boats out there are beautifully designed and in some cases well-built, but come with a long list of serious projects that need doing on Day 1. Every boat is a compromise, but with a job that is full-time +, that's one compromise I am unprepared to make, which helps...

Hmm. I have heard of that but have never seen it done. So is the engine trimmed-up when you start it and flush it? That way all the salt water in the cooling loop would be displaced by fresh, and you could finish with an exterior rinse.

Thanks, RT: All sound points. My outboard engines have always done best when they get rinsed and flushed after each use. That's best done out of the water, but my plan for this next boat is to keep it in a salt-water wet slip, which would make fresh-water flushing problematic.

Ditto on all points. I would only add that, when coming alongside in a tight space where it's hard to place a spring line correctly, it's a nice option to be able to reach over and get a short breast line across and snugly secured to a midship cleat. With that, you can move forward and aft and...

As to the first point, I agree and am open to that possibility. As to the second, it depends. Assuming neutral or favorable wind and current, and ample room to maneuver, yes. Add in any complicating factors, though, and I'm likely to put the rudders to work as well as the props. Another...

A cockpit station makes perfect sense, and if I find a boat with the feature already installed, I'd be all over it. I may have sounded tepid about the idea because adding an outside station, even just for engine and rudder controls, could be expensive. Recently I flew to Miami to look at a...

I envy you time spent aboard a Z36. Maybe they don't all have a side door, but this very nice 1998 example listed by Gray & Gray does: https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/1998-zimmerman-z36-custom-cruiser-9162706/

Have you tried St. Mary's Boat Services? Just across the state border and a short distance up the St. Mary's River: Home

Been there. Very understandable feelings when you can't be moving, and can't even reliably predict when you will be able to move. OTOH, your kitty looks to have adapted with minimal effort . . .:cool:

Where should we be looking for our PMs?

I read, "The hull construction averages one-inch thickness with stringers and cross sections built of nonabsorbent structural foam heavily encased in fiberglass," and it sounds as though she's built like a tank. But none of us seem to have first-hand info about this particular boat. She's an odd...

What are the rest of us supposed to do for 1-2 days without TF?

By all the evidence she's built like a tank, but as noted above, she is an unusual boat. In some respects quite practical, but in others not so much. E.g., a single stateroom in a 44' boat is limiting, and that long deckhouse with no side doors is inconvenient, IMO. If she fits your purposes...

Thanks for bringing that up. Real workboats have 'em. Suboptimal for me, but that would be a workaround. Recently I went through a 42' custom Downeast style, designed as a fishing boat but built as a yacht. It checked so many other boxes for me that I assessed it for a cockpit control station...

Thanks, David. Interesting that you mentioned a gas-powered CD 28. I have been re-evaluating my lifelong aversion to gasoline inboards, since a couple of gas Cape Dorys came and went from the market within the past six months or so. Agree about twins in the Mainship Pilots. Even a single Yanmar...

Thanks, Carl. Yes, I have been on Gray & Gray's website often. She presently has the listing on a handsome Zimmerman 36 that checks nearly all my boxes, although at a price about $100K above my budget. It's always something . . .