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All boats are falling apart! If you have not enjoyed the natural rhythm and pattern of repairs and replacements, you have not owned your boat long enough. I owned a 49 Albin Tri-cabin and she was a great cruiser. Much tougher than I was. She had cruised from South America to Maine and she...

Exterior teak.

What I liked about this project was that it appeared that no one lost any fingers. There seemed to be no smashed toes and there weren't any severe burns! Put me in a room with 30,000 lbs of steel, a few different types of grinders and lathes and a welding torch and I may not get out alive...

A couple things come to my mind on this. First, in my experience, a survey usually will have as many pages devoted to how the surveyor cannot be held responsible for what he submits as pages that explain what he has found about a boat. They pretty well cover their butts. Secondly, if the...

Help me out here guys. How does anchor weight come into this search for the best anchor for one's boat? Let's say you conclude that the Marva #6 anchor is the perfect primary anchor for your boat. And let us say that your anchor roller and windlass have the capacity for even a larger anchor...

Welcome to TF! This site is a resource and the best thing about it from my standpoint is that you have so many passionate boaters who contribute from almost every aspect of the boating lifestyle. From million dollar + yachts to fixer-uppers and from dock queens to world travelers. The only...

To me, anyone who has sold out and changed to knots from cables is not a real mariner. I suppose you measure your depth in feet and not fathoms too!

I had a 49' Albin (trunk cabin style) and a 43' Marine Trader (sun deck). It is just my opinion, but to me, the flybridge does not = the sun deck or veranda. There was always something just very comfortable about stepping out from the salon into a second living area from which you can easily...

In the televised report, the 1st. Officer stated that they suspected that one of the stabilizers was damaged when leaving Bahia Mar Marina, allowing water to ingress.

Boy, have we been there! We actually twice missed a turn of the ICW and wandered out an inlet. The 2nd. time it happened, we said almost in unison: "If it looks like the ocean and it smells like the ocean and it starts to feel like the ocean .... it must be the ocean. Time to turn around."

Now you are making some sense buddy! The single screw doesn't frighten me. If we can get the engine past a complete sea trial, count me in. I have quite a bit of experience in fog. If you cruise much in New England, as I have, you have to be able to navigate in fog. You never plan to leave...

I'm going to try to talk psneeld to come along. I'm sure we would have a great time. He knows these waters like the back of his hand and I will whine and moan all the way about not taking undue chances. So we will have a $9000 boat, a million dollars worth of experience and my 2 cents worth...

I have already given my advise to Drinkenbuddy: My advise is to pay the extra month on the hard until near the end of June. Take it up into Narragansett Bay and anchor out for whatever time it takes to know that all the systems work. Then, plan 50 mile/8 hour days of travel and study...

Drinkenbuddy: Here are your inlet options along the southern coast of Long Island and the coast of New Jersey. 1. Shinnecock Inlet (31 miles or about 4 hours west of Montauk Point) The inlet should not be attempted without local knowledge because of frequent changes in channel depths. Tidal...

Well let's see here ... We have a Drinkenbuddy, that buys a 34 year old boat in Massachusetts, that has a cruise speed of 8 mph best. Drinkenbuddy says he wants to move his boat down to Florida "as soon as the marina unfreezes". He also adds that he asked a guy how to get to Miami and this...

New Jersey and Delbay in May is nowhere's near that bad. I have been a professional and recreational captain in NJ for the last 15 years and grew up there. While it CAN be bad...so can anyplace. The trick is not to have to enter an inlet or treacherous piece of water when the sh** is...

Unless you have a death wish, you should spend a week in Narragansett Bay to determine if your boat is seaworthy and which of the systems on the boat you can trust. Fuel tanks have been mentioned as suspect, but steering hydraulics are a concern, electronics are unknown and the quality of the...

OK, so I thought I was walking through Harvard Square looking for a lobster-roll and I wandered into a room of professors discussing thermodynamics. I hope there isn't a final test on the details of your discussion, but you have been very helpful in correcting some of my misconceptions. I am...

Todd, welcome to TF! I am fairly new here also and I think you will find very knowledgeable members who have great patience with those of us with questions about boats and systems. You guys have great waters to explore on LI sound and the islands in close proximity. I also have a feeling...

I also have come to that conclusion! And now, I want a steel boat with dual skegs!

You must have it real easy up there in the NW. Let's say you wanted to take your boat to Florida from the Chesapeake for the winter. Let's say your boat wasn't a passagemaker and you were not comfortable going outside for 1000 miles. Let's say you decide to use the ICW that is supposed to...

Thank you for helping me understand this better. I had incorrect assumptions for sure.