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Ha. I am getting on a plane to fly in one hour. Friends down there think I am crazy. Hoping it is just a tropical storm. Currently saying will hit palm beach county, and also only gusts touching 75 mph. That is barely hurricane but certainly enough to take out power, close roads and still be...

Any coincidence record profits from the oil companies? If their costs are higher and they pass on the costs, then their profits should be the same. But when their costs come down, their prices down come down in step. We need to become energy independent from non aligned foreign countries...

Just bought a new boat. Talked to many brokers. They believe the weakest part of the market will be with people who have to finance a large % of the purchase. That is the mid market and or low mid market. Until we see layoffs, where people have to sell their toys to have savings, the market...

Thanks, just what I am looking for.

I am wondering if anyone knows if there are charter companies that have either full displacement/semi disp boats, call them trawlers or trawler like or whatever you want, Beneteau, Nordic, Grand Banks, even KK/Nord etc. that would be available for anywhere from a week to a month in the Northeast...

Beverly poet marina did winter water few years back, haven't checked in about 5 years. They would put bubblers in if it was going to freeze. Kept my boat in wayer in Westbrook CT. Huge tidal flow from river kept water from freezing. Currently in bristol, that harbor freezes, and I think...

You also need to compare purchase price. If you are going to bahamas for the price of say a 40 foot trawler, you can get 40+ catamaran. My 38 cat did 5.5 kts on 1 engine using 0.5 gal hour. 7.5 kts using both engines at 1 gal hour. Sailed at between 5 and 12 kts. 3 staterooms, w heads...

As said above, get the explorer book, and also get the memory card w the charts for your charplotter. These are KEY for info on places, and navigating to them. Can’t stress having them enough for a successful trip.

Didn't say you. Said that large majority. Well known fact in auto industry. Trucks have great margin vs. cars. It is why they are sold on emotion (though in reality, everything is marketed on emotion). Do contractors need trucks. Of course. Do people pulling 10k trailers. Of course. Hauling...

Easily one of the best analysis of what is need for an expedition boat. If you generalize it some more, it would be a fantastic analysis to use before any boat purchase. Amazing work this guy did, and can't imagine the effort of making this video. Specifically , he says you need to be answering...

Great stuff. Some serious questions though if I may, and I know they may sound silly to you…. How do you get medical and dental care I studied Spanish from third grade through a year of college. That was over forty years ago for me. I can understand a bit still if spoken slowly enough, but...

Thanks. Was wondering about leaving an electric motor attached full time, much lighter. Didn't know about the motor bracket system they had.

Came across this system for boats with a transom. Wondering if this works well, or if one should try to figure out a way to fit a 'regular' dual pole davit system off the stern. Not talking about those that have a flybridge mounted crane system. Thanks.

Interesting name. When scrolling to the bottom, they are from NEEL trimarans, making a bunch of sailing tris. People have had various responses to the sailing models, a few were launched a bit prematurely and had quality issues. But I am following this, I am very interested in power cats. While...

Not mine, but just posting in case someone is looking for a used though pretty much new 2021 N41. Asking ~1M. Thought these were going for about $800k new? https://nordhavn.com/brokerage/listings/n41-himmel/

Sounds like a great cruise! Assuming that since you have the dink, you were anchoring almost all the time vs. moorings (figured if you had moorings, most marinas have pretty reasonable launch service)? Thanks for the towing real world info.

Coming from the sailing side, on my 38' cat, I had 600W of solar on 2 panels over my davits. I could have had another 600 W easily on the 'roof'. These days, most cruising cats have at least that and the larger new ones are coming w close to 2kW of solar, and 800Ah of LiFePo. In sunny climes, w...

I had a sailboat a whiles back that I towed the inflatable behind. However, I always had a second tow line, was afraid if the main line broke, to have a backup. No idea if I was just paranoid or if this is SOP. Do those who tow regularly also do this?

Not wanting to get too political, but DJI, which is a Chinese company has just been accused of giving the Russians special SW that identifies the location of the drone controller. This is allowing them to target their mortars when a drone takes off. China says they have not done this, but the...

Great post Nick! Really good info. As you said, it is not a simple problem with a simple answer, and unfortunately, I don't think we will hit 0 carbon by 2050. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't be doing our best to try for achieving it. I worked on solar panel technology 40 years ago...

I sold my sailing cat 2 years ago right before the pandemic with the thought I would look at trawlers (big mistake on the timing ;-) While with winds at 12-20 on a beam reach I could do between 8 and 12 kts, when planning for cruises I would count on 6-7 kts. Basically this meant 50 mi days...

I have manufactured many electronic products over my career. Almost all follow the 80/20 rule when it comes to their COGS. Usually there is a high priced component; a sensor, CPU, Gate array, etc, with a bunch of what we called 'jelly beans', parts that cost very little. I have seen products...

From what I read yesterday, LA port congestion is down about thirty percent, so there is some easing. Also read where lumber prices are close to pre pandemic. Finally, some retailers are saying they are now getting over inventoried. Part of this is that they ordered more based on what they...

I am wondering if anyone has the figures on how much oil was used say in 2019 prior to the pandemic when the economy was going great guns vs. now. My gut tells me we are not using as much, yet crude is up significantly. Or even if it is the same. Russia is only 10%. I know the pump price is...