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I used to love those little key floats. Many years (many decades?) ago when I made my living as a marina diver people would hire me to recover their keys after they dropped them overboard. The keys were buried in the mud, but those little floats stuck up and made the keys really easy to find! dvd

After years cruising with a RIB and 10hp outboard, from Bahamas to the Great Lakes, I have to say it served us well. It was nice to have a fast dinghy on the rare occasion we had to cover a distance from our anchorage, or just wanted to explore in the area. Raising it on the davits was a bit of...

Not a fun way to spend the holiday! Here's hoping this is a short and temporary speed bump on life's highway for you and you have a long, healthy retirement. I enthusiastically concur with the title of your post. I might even go one step further and suggest the trite phrase "Live each day as if...

A few years ago, when we were preparing to cruise full-time, we were looking for the "right boat" after selling house, car, older trawler, etc. I was convinced a Nordhavn was it, but the Admiral didn't care for the layout. We went aboard a PDQ powercat and she said "I could live aboard this...

"Luxury Tug," although an oxymoron, must mean one can afford a professional varnishing crew...

BTW, this was the last 32 built before the temporary shutdown in 2010.

After cruising the East Coast/Caribbean for three years on my PDQ 34 I sold it and have come back home to the Left Coast. I've been looking for a NT 32 for several months and have to admit a Volvo engine eliminated a few possibilities. Yes, it's a bias, and I know some people who are pleased...

This is the only espresso maker we carry aboard. All you need is a source of hot water (and coffee) with the operation being much like a bicycle pump. They even have a 12V system made for cars which is fully automatic.

Three years of cruising, only got sick once - when I was helping a friend do an "emergency" fuel filter change, buried in his bilge with 4 ft chop on the Chesapeake ("Chesapuke"). My wife is very prone to motion sickness and although she got more and more used to being on the water, whenever...

SeeVee- I think that a significant consideration when looking for a "loop boat," is your cruising style. Marina to marina, tying up to docks every night is a lot different than anchoring out most of the time. IF you are considering docking most nights, side decks and fore/aft access are much...

Here's a photo of our Rocna just after it was set in the Bahamas. I always jumped in the water to check after anchoring, but scraped up my leg one day so had to stay out of the water for a while. I asked my wife to swim down & take a picture for me (what a woman!). By morning, after a 20-25 knot...

Where did you try to use it that they said all the above? Must have been Michigan. They don't accept SVRS. Did you end up using OARS? For NY it was easy, just calling 1-800-827-2851. We called that number and we were in. Just gave them the float plan number. We left the US from Oswego, NY...

We registered with SVRS and it worked well on our return from the Bahamas. One phone call when were within cell range and all was done. When we were getting ready to enter Canada through the Great Lakes, I tried to make a float plan in preparation for returning with SVRS. CBP said they didn't...

Been a while since I've posted -- was on the way to the Bahamas 18 months ago and got sidetracked by treatment for Stage 4 melanoma. In April of this year I was declared NED (No Evidence of Disease) so returned to the boat & took off for the Exumas. Got back a few weeks ago -- here's a few pics.

<<...and I think built in Chile.>> Actually the PDQ sailboats are being built in Brazil. Unfortunately, the powercats are not in production anywhere. Pearson owns the molds and has them in the Northeast. There are occasional rumors of financial backing offers, but no concrete plans to resume...

deckofficer, This boat represents a number of changes from my past boats beyond the number of hulls. My past boats were either sailboats or older trawler-style powerboats used for weekend get aways and occasional multi-week coastal cruises (while living on the West Coast, ranged as far south as...

Having 2 months and a couple of thousand miles under my belt on my PDQ 34 power cat, I still smile when maneuvering in tight quarters. Yes, I can turn my boat around in its own length and do most anything but go directly sideways (and I can come close to doing that with enough wiggle room)...

We did a couple of layover days there a few weeks ago - great place! Found a small, cash-only grocery store (across Bridge of the Lions, down Anastasia Blvd about half mile) that had inexpensive, incredibly fresh seafood & meats. Picked up a bag of grits and some shrimp - great dinner that...

Was there a couple of weeks ago - the city dock is a relatively small finger dock coming out from the seawall at the inner end of the harbor. Enter the harbor, closely parallel the breakwater and go all the way in, past the shrimp boats. It's right across the street from an espresso shop which...

We bought a PDQ 34 a month or so ago and have been living aboard, moving south down the ICW from Annapolis to Stuart, FL where the boat will stay a couple of months while we tend to other business then head over to the Bahamas in Feb or March. The bunks were a compromise in buying the boat, but...

I suspect that someday I'll get tired of sunrise/sunset pictures, but there's something about a sunset over water that is just too hard to resist. Took this a couple of minutes ago while anchored on Redbird Creek just off the Ogeechee River in Eastern Georgia. dvd

FlyWright - We've got reasonable internet connection here, so I took a few pics this AM. Take into consideration we are in "travel mode" and have been traveling hard for the past week and a half. Dinghy/water/fishing/dock access is great with steps built into the pontoons. I've got 2...

<<Did I see you going tru hollywood this week?>> Not me -- I'm on my way south but haven't gotten that far yet. dvd

Then there are the less traditional boats. I'm burning about 4-5 gal/hr at 14-15 knots in my 34 ft. PDQ power cat. When I passed a Nordic Tug 42 on the ICW yesterday he said he was burning 7-8 gal/hr and he was probably going about 8 knots. If I were to cruise at 8 knots I'd burn about 1.5...

It was a beautiful run yesterday from Bucksport to Charleston. That Waccamaw river area is really nice, even in December. I can imagine how georgeous it is in spring & summer. Even saw a number of dolphin. dvd