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Welcome aboard. You have a lot of challenges to look forward to. When you've overcome the terror, you'll find yourself happy and satisfied. Wishing you the best.

Generally alone, I get underway at dawn. If coming up on a favorite spot... either an anchorage or yacht club, I may do as little as thirty-five miles. This at about seven knots. If distance is my objective, I'll run dawn to dusk in the waterway (assuming an anchorage is available). Or, with...

Lovely. Happy for you.

I installed a Nature's Head about three years ago. Love it. No stinky hoses and no maintenance aside from occasionally emptying the composted material into a heavy plastic bag; then using that around the shrubs at home. Great stuff.

My boat has an older 375hp Cat engine. Cruising at seven knots, I average a burn rate of 2 gph.

Also from experience, use of a springy nylon line will greatly reduce those shock loads and possible avoid ripping out that cleat.

Singlehanded or otherwise, I pre-lead a spring line from the mid-cleat aft to the cockpit. My boat is brought alongside the dock with the cockpit near enough to the dock that I am able to secure that spring to a cleat on the dock; then return to the helm and ease forward, allowing the spring...

Great thread. I'm most often solo. My 34-footer has a single screw and no thruster. I agree with the thirty-degree approach after sitting off the dock in neutral for a few moments to get the feel for wind and current. Approaching into the current, hopefully starboard side to the dock which...

HOLD EVERYTHING... Do not cut your leaking aluminum tank out before considering this alternative repair: I have two 180 gallon aluminum tanks. When I purchased the boat I was told that one tank was leaking. Turned out that both tanks were leaking. With a bit of searching I came across an...