Possibly that they put pressure on the Captain to sail that route or else.......things like that......who knows......
The other thing is nobody on the El Faro can talk. Tote I am sure has been talking to their lawyers since the instant the ship sank. They I'm...
The explorer charts don't seem to have as good closeup charts now. It's also split up really weird and they don't go from 1 page to the next page...
Leeky, what I meant by that comment is that all of the weather reports were the same. The Hurricane did exactly what it was forecasted to do for...
They tend to wander if they have a keel.....ones without a keel tend to just turn towards the shallow area from what I've seen.
On the Oceans, not so much at anchor and drift, because their transoms taper and cockpit area are narrow. Both honestly are a bit scary feeling...
If you put any coating on Arneson props, they usually won't even get on plane or perform. You have to run bare props on Arneson boats and clean...
So they say, but the Captain was pulling weather. The girl onboard the ship called her family less than 24 hours before and told her family...
Arneson is very efficient. I usually see less than 1% prop slip on Arneson boats. However, they are always headaches. If you have 2 barnacles...
It doesn't even matter, even the local TV stations were broadcasting it's projected path and wind speed and present location and all of it was...
Yes, but I think that stems from the Captain. He should have called a Mayday and told them the gravity of the situation. I don't think a RORO...
According to the third recorded phone call with Tote guy and USCG, the USCG guy mentioned that the boat has been dewatered. Who knows if he even...
I feel differently. I'm in Fort Lauderdale, 30 miles from Miami. I had known about and had been tracking this Hurricane for 5 days prior to it...
I've found the Explorer charts are not as good as they used to be since the owner died. I like the new Maptech set. It covers the entire Bahamas...
I believe so, you need to hear the last link between Tote and USCG. They mentioned Scuttle blowing off, 3 water tight chambers flooded, then...
I ran a 50' Prestige quite a bit. The problem is Prestige needs to program the joystick better, if you just push it sideways, the bow always lags...
Yes, but that unlimited fresh water comes at a price of electricity and about 25 amps worth on most decent sized watermakers. Plus the cost of...
The IPS and some Zues exhaust through the propellor hubs. Some all of that exhaust on the foward pods would definately create cavitation on the...
I feel that if you had some foward and some aft of them, that the foward ones would create too much cavitation for the rear ones.
Usually they sit about 1" over the full mark on the stick with the engines off(cold and when the motors haven't been run in a while).
