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Hey Spring Fling Boaters, Come to Pleasure Island Rendezvous. You only have 4 more days to register for the Spring Fling spectacular. This is our way of getting everyone out on the water to begin this year’s boating season. Dust off the cobwebs and get out there and test your boat with a group...

Registration is open for the Texas Mariners Cruising Associations annual event. This year the event will coincide with the Pleasure Island Marina in Port Arthur Texas grand opening. The dates to remember are May 16 - 18. Go to Spring Fling for additional information and registration.

I have a lightly used Dan Levin "Heart of the Islands" pendant with a diamond placed in Friday Harbor for sale. I know a lot of you guys are from up there and May have visited the store in Friday Harbor. We purchased the pendant when we were there in 2009. My wife has since past and I would...

I have a 100hp Westerbeke in my Pilgrim 40 and make 7 knts at 1.6 gph solid engine

I think it breaks down for easy storage

Great article Marin

Do not rule out those Pilgrim 40's for an economical cruiser equipped with a bow thruster

Have you ever said anything that when the words came out you wished you could reach out into the air, grab the words, and stuff them back into your mouth? It has happened a couple of times in my life to date. The last time it happened was Friday, June 13, 2003. Don’t you find it amazing that I...

My solution for the 3 D's Traveling Star: Losing the Dream

I raised a 12 year old boy on a 34' sailboat. We the new wife came around we move on to a Bluewater 40 pilothouse trawler. We kept the sailboat to go boating in and just lived on the trawler. It worked great for us. We had to kick the young son off the boat at 19

Thurman, Welcome to the world of boating, surveyors, and disappointments. There are some good ones out there just keep looking.

I want to say that I have no interest in owning an Island Pilot. I own a 7 knot Pilrgim 40 and am perfectly satisfied. I had actually never heard of one until a neighbor of mine expressed interest in one. It is marketed as a…… are you ready for this…..a “Crossover Trawler”. I looked at it...

Registration starts this Friday, 3/15

I am in the middle of a galley rebuild and would prefer to have ¾” quartz (Silestone) counter tops installed. The contractor mentioned that most boaters prefer a lighter product. I cannot see where it would make much difference to me. I am thinking I am already heavy and the weight difference...

I use the stuff I got at the boat show and it is great Prism Polish - Cleans, Polishes and Protects All Metals

I am not sure it is in the water

I would not have understood that unless I had chartered out of Anacortes and provisioned at low tide

TMCA had a cruise up there in January with about 20 boats. I did not hear of any problems

By the looks of the web site, location is all that they have decided

That is what the web site indicates Spring Fling

Way to go SD. I am right there with you.

I am staying out by the airport and taking the train / bus down to the convention center. The cost is $5 for a day pass.

We raft up BIG in Texas Howl at the Moon Cruise ~ 2002

Here is a great link Traveltalkonline: Viewing forum: British Virgin Islands

Here is a copy of our charter on a catamaran sailboat 2012 05/12/12 Sunsail Shorebase, Wickman's Cay II, Road Town, Totrola 05/13/12 Road Town, Tortola Snorkel the the "Indians" Snorkel the Treasure Caves Mooring ball - "The Bight"...