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In 1971 I was sitting on a friend's boat in Hanalei Bay, Kauai, Hawaii when the wind swung around and increased to a near gale. As I watched my boat pitch in the seas with the chain tight from the pick to the bow of the boat, the chain broke and went flying over the boat. I managed to get aboard...

Yes, I am positive that the CG is responsible for ensuring that the channels the CoE dredge are kept clear of obstacles such as pot buoys and the like. They are also responsible for maintaining the buoys that mark the channels. I'm sure you've seen the USCG buoy tenders at work somewhere, and...

us$32.00 a tube down here is hardly what I'd call beer money! Or maybe you just drink very expensive beer.

I only set the anchor with the engine if there is no wind at all or if I'm Med mooring. I will drop my anchor, pay out the chain as the wind blows me back and set the brake on the windlass at 3x the depth. She will round up bow to wind and I know the anchor has set. I may pay out a bit more...

I saw this all over Narragansett Bay in RI. Even in the main shipping channel! There was no clear navigatable path up the bay and as the fishermen use little clear or white bottles to mark their traps, with any chop at all, they are near invisible. It is the job of the USCG to ensure that the...

Our "hard bits" have never touched the boat until after they are disconnected from the chain. Then one need only exercise due care to ensure that they don't do any damage. If that isn't possible because of your bow's shape or anchoring system, then how about covering the shackle with some...

Why in the world would I want to introduce a chafe point? Where is the value in elimiating the shackle and thimble only to have the snub line chafe through at a most inconvenient time? Thimbles were invented to reduce chafe between a line and what it is attached to.

If this unit uses a fuel solenoid to run the engine, that is the circuit I would be looking at, if a fuse isn't the problem. Some engines open the fuel flow with a solenoid when the engine key is switched on. Loss of power to this circuit could also be the problem with your light.

I use a single edge razor blade and a lot of patience, if I want to remove a fitting some idiot has bedded with 5200. You will surely destroy your rod holder if you use brute force. In the past, many years in the past, I was trying to remove a port hole bedded w/5200 and actually delaminated...

We use a one inch nylon snub line about 30' long with a thimble in an eye splice on the end that has a chain hook shackled to it and secure the other end to a bow cleat, through a chock, not the anchor roller. We use firehose for chafe. With a 55kg anchor, 3/8" chain is a serious mismatch if you...

Yes, we keep a very comprehensive and detailed navigation log. It is a bound book and any vessel movement, even from anchor to the fuel dock and back, goes in the book. Any errors are lined out w/a signature and there are no erasures in, or pages torn out of the log. We also keep an engine room...

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned. I tried to quickly glance through but didn't see any, so I'm sorry if it has been mentioned. A unit designed for 240 volts will have appropriately sized wire, as will a 110-volt unit. However, if you power a 110v unit through 240-volt wiring, you are...

You are absolutely right. I'm sorry I jumped to that conclusion. Perhaps it's because we are down here in the Caribbean and the holidays are just days like every other when you work in the charter business. Of course, many are away with family for the holidays and not thinking of a boating...

Considering the amount of time and effort that would go into coordinating the travel of ten boats or so, and the fact that having a reliable service person at one's beck and call, at less than half the going rate of some stranger found in some port along the way, why would a small fee be...

I am wondering if there would be any interest in trawler flotillas in the Great Lakes and Canadian Maritimes, down the Mississippi in the fall to the Florida Keys (or Bahamas) and back up the East Coast in the spring. Folks would be able to join the flotilla for any segment they pleased, or...

My wife and I presently operate a small, successful, sailing charter business in the Windward Islands of the Caribbean, and are considering selling, so we can begin new adventures in colder climes, aboard a trawler. The Canadian Maritimes, the Great Lakes and perhaps even Hudson Bay, now that...