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If your going to be regularly boat shopping, making contact with one STRONG surveyor should be at the top of your list of things to do. If you go over to the Baylinerownersclub.org site and post this question you'll get many answers quickly as there's many owners, there including one fellow...

I just "flew over" Tampa again with my map app, and was saddened to see how many places where even fishing boats, and small commercial boats used to dock up the Hillsborough River are gone, but noticed one of the pirate lair places I tried to make contact with in the mid 90s is still there, it's...

That could be a sign of a stroke, can you wiggle your tongue?:D

If you mean literally in Tampa Bay north of Gandy causeway, the question soon becomes "any marina" much less liveaboard. Near downtown, and on Davis Island there's slips and a Yachtclub, but vacancies are doubtful. The condo construction boom in Florida eliminated many marinas that allowed...

You read his post? I think I would take the advice of a long time owner of a classic much loved yacht before anyone else. One garners experience in time.

And that's a bad thing? I bet all the guys who bought these boats 25 -30 years ago wish the Internet had been invented back then so strangers could had told them the mistakes they were making.:facepalm:

On Yachtforums.com, there's a post under general discussions of a fellow who just had his 56' Matthew MY totally painted. He has photos and high recondmendation s for the outfit in Daytona that painted her. He seemed to have brought her down from South Carolinas to have her done.

I don't remember being critical of unique designs. I try to find the positive in everything, but comparing peoples homemade budget cobblers to Harry Schoell designs? That's like comparing my boutique (polite word for piss ant) Brokerage to Camper and Nicholson. I don't drink (but boy those...

That's Harry Schoell and one of his infinity Yacht designs. I had posted it in a thread about wide boats, as he designed many. The Deltaconic hull design was his. He was way ahead of his time design wise, but was exactly in the right time of when there were lots of rich guys (back before it...

No, I'm beimg positive. The large photos speak for themselves.:)

I'm going to stay positive in my remarks: the exteror of the pilothouse around the windows looks well done. Nice wipers. Has a separate shower stall. Nice swim platform. Think of how much money you can save money on gym and yoga classes by just regularly moving about her. I would expect that it...

I loved my 50' single screw Pilothouse, but it was too narrow. The old Meridians (pre-Brunswick) and Trojan Pilothouses (Whittaker), Durbecks, and others made great designs back in the early 70's, but all too narrow now. Made sense back when dockage was cheap and plentiful as a narrower boat...

Great read- thanks! Although it reinforced my thoughts for a faster boat, and was really surprised they ended up in St. Petersburg. Thought for sure Miami would had been the logical choice to keep a foot in that Latin culture they so enjoyed and be able to regularly speak the language they...

Sign me up! Thanks for the excellent reports. Anybody here run the stretch along the Caribbean coast between Panama and Roatan? It's an area much discussed with friends and clients for 30 years, but no first hand reports.

I have friends who run the west coast along Mexico to Panama, and they report only El Salvador as sketchy (due to gang members deported from the US) Guatemala is quite cruiser friendly. I'm led to believe that it's the entire Caribbean side south of Guatemala to Colon Panama that has...

Anybody go? Reports, photos, thoughts?

I'm not the one who will be drawn into a conversation about going slow, but IF you wanna talk going faster, then I'm your guy. I'm rolling Tamiami at over 100 mph with the top down Cruising 64 mph in triple diesel Fountain 48', which can run from Key West to Cancun burning 1 gallon per...

While admiring the thought, effort, and finish of his creation, if I wanted a short range boat (which it is) I would want a much faster one with shallower draft, and if seeking a long range passagemaker I likely would choose a unmollested Heritage 46' which are actually pretty good sailing...

I've only gone outside. It you have a autopilot and good forecast, picking up over 3 knots really makes a difference in a slow boat. There's fuel close to the inlets from St. Augustine to Savanah, all with wide entrances you can use at night. Come in take a nap. But see no reason to use the ditch.

Dry Roasted peanuts, cases of bottled water from Home Depot (just in case your tanks are harboring bacteria), bananas, fruit, protein bars, Oatmeal (eat it raw), some books, flashlights, batteries, inflatable mattress, sunglasses, sunscreen, binoculars, and ID for the Feds who might be boarding...

:flowers: My point was that good acid and weed, were probably responsible for having the original idea that ferrocement was a good idea, back when that boat was built, what in the late 60's -early 70's? And then probably further contributed to the idea of "since we have no money for spars...

That POS is ferrocement too- in the words of:Drugs are bad.

photos I've taken around Miami lately. This was actually for sale at the Boat Show! Seems well done, but as he asked himself in his blog: "why?". He took a boat that sails great, had fresh air and a view from a easily accessed cockpit, and then totally eliminated those positives...

That would be a hard one even if you had said "at any price". Gilberts there in Key Largo would be the most pleasant.

I've been out on day's there on Puget Sound (same with SF Bay!) you guys call "nice" (maybe because the sun was shining?) and all I could think was "holy ****, this is what Biscayne Bay looks like during a Hurricane, not for me thank you". Plus it's cold!!