I think you are very cleverly setting up an alibi for your plan to collect the insurance on a direlect river barge you just found and plan to...
Keep in mind that the report being tossed around here is not the official findings of the flag state. The link below leads to the official...
And therin lie the joys and frustrations of this business. The availability of "wriggle room" to negotiate an interpretation allows us to...
Got to thinking about that number and realised that if those were dollars it might be almost enough to support a nice yacht for a couple of years.
And the remaining 10 percent will very rapidly repopulate the tank. Unlike higher orders of living organisms, bacteria don't require two to...
Unless you can access the interior of the fuel tanks in a way that allows thorough cleaning and drying of all surfaces and corners you will not...
Nah, that car is probably a pile of corrosion products by now. It's little wonder it costs so much to rent a car in Rangiroa when morons drive...
Isn't Western Europe about half way between the two of us ... how far wrong could a couple of engineers go?
Sigh .... Just a week ago the chief mate and I were sitting on the terrace of a superb restaurant on the east side of the Soane at the corner of...
Maybe the operator was concerned about whacking the gauge face? I would ask him to provide a document to support that claim and to define a...
I have written much about this incident and don't really care to rehash a seedy part of yachting history but please note that there was no...
It looks like the Jones Act opponents have plotted a new course to run the US Merchant Marine firmly aground on the shoals of greed and treachery;...
The passengers and crew on Lady Candida survived in spite of the captain, his incompetence, lack of knowledge, and his poorly considered actions....
You could have found a better example than Diva to make the point. As an early and very vocal critic of the system which produced the Lady Candida...
As opposed to what? Letting a flaming hulk drift down on moored boats and a couple of marinas? Forcing the crew over the side in lifejackets next...
Don't confuse registration with documentation.
Perhaps everyone with a stake in the yachting industry is concerned with fire safety but the post seemed to allude to some underlying issue or...
What is the situation that you are so concerned about? And how does this incident highlight or represent those concerns?
Since the story of the destroyer/small boat collision seemed to go so quiet, I filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Navy for...
This is a bit late but I have been out of the country for most of the month and haven't followed events so closely....
