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Hello Forum Folks, Been searching Amazon for books on Blue Water Cruising, Outfitting, places to go along the east coast and the islands, ICW, first aid afloat, etc. etc. and figured this would be a great place to find the best of the best. Please let me know what books have served you well and...

I had a 12VDC (I think) switch installed in my Kitchen that was super low profile and might be of interest. It is an "eye" flush mounted about 1/4 in diameter. Essentially you wave your hand in front of it for on or off and even allows dimming by holding your hand steady in front of it. I...

Barabus - Love your Math. It works for me!

5% of net worth - What fun would that be? I definitely have issues according to that rule with choices I am about to make gleefully. BUT they are choices fully backed by my financial advisor who just finished a 30 page retirement planning document to give me a go/no-go on when my wife and I...

So do you buy an 10 year properly maintained XX boat over a 20 year old properly maintained Fleming? That is the real question I have.

Thanks for the thought....BTW had to look up IMHO which for the texting challenged means "In My Humble Opinion".

From my user name I was sure the Nordic Tug was the eventual trawler for me...But I continue my search, making the shows (Lauderdale most recently) and speaking with long term cruisers every chance I can (what works what doesn't). I have boarded and combed through: 42 and 44 Nordic's...

Thanks for the welcome! Good to be in a community as diverse as this with a wealth of information. Right you are on the Travis McGee series...My grandmother recommended one of the books to my brother who passed them down to me. 30 years later my 21 year old son just read through everyone...

Lifelong boater in a near identical position to you. I've owned boats since 16 with my first named the "Busted Flush", second "FoamFollower" then "My Three Tons" and a fishing boat today (Bonus points to any who name what books the first two came from). No military background for me but thank...