that's why i mentioned it... i flew in and out of PVD last year when i left the boat on the hard for a week at fairhaven, convenient airport,...
either way probably works but i find it more pleasant for the "student" to have time to digest the practice, discuss it, see what worked and what...
short season? yeah... you can't even touch the water without getting frostbites until july! shoudl be called a "mini season", just like they do...
3 hours is barely enough to cover basic docking, not time to teach the electronics, systems, maintenance and safety overview or anchoring. from...
nycap, on average the NE seems to be more expensinve . not a big difference on transient, maybe $1 a foot more, but monthly in most of So....
i can't imagine anyone putting a 55KW on a 60 footer... makes no sense. I have an 18KW on my 53 Hatt and that's already a little too big. now...
for a 28 footer? not necessarily. They might give you a discount if you pass an approved course, or they might require some training on the...
coming to boating as a pilot, you obviously have an edge when it comes to navigation, safety and understanding that a boat is not a car... there...
If you enjoy anchoring out, you may consider a mooring. The 70 footer i run spends the summer on a mooring in nantucket and it works out very well...
Norseman if you had helped your neighbor taking that beautiful sailboat to the bahamas, you would have had more days for your renewal :)
I'm pretty sure the USCG transfered all license processing to a central location a year or two ago supposedly to improve processing times (it was...
my Norpro 18 uses a Marathon Alternator, its manual has a procedure to flash the windings on initial install or whenever needed. Never had to do...
Bill has a point about storage on the OWW but keep in mind that they often close one or more locks for maintenance in the summer. Can't always...
even with glass hulls, you want to do the alignment in water, NEVER on the hard.
few yards, not a lot of space, high property taxes and the need to haul out boats when a hurricane comes this way... you may have more luck in...
relying on AC power for nav equipment is not very wise to say the least. If the boat doens't have any inverters to take over if the genny goes...
a few years back i was on receiving end of a PHP upgrade by the server guys... no warning until i started getting emails than things were "not...
good thing YF is not located in NOLA, everything would have been looted! btw, just got this error message when trying to delete a duplicate post:...
i dont know... I haven't seen too many plotters using hard drives! :)
saying that all 38-42 boats are same (for some reason, I find it difficult to use the word "motoryacht" to describe production 40 footers) is very...