It s been incredibly busy here in Miami on Biscayne Bay as well. With a lot a big boats. I don’t remember seeing that many 80, 90 and 100+...
Nowadays with the amount of electronics installed on just about every boat there is no excuse to hit a jetty or breakwater. And rule nr 1 at...
Even in my well charted home waters I don’t take shortcuts. Not worth it
Whenever I ve had some repairs done, I had the guy remove a small storage door and take it to his gelcoat supplier in FTL to match. Perfect match...
Surprising considering the boom in outboards over the last few years, that said I rarely see Evinrudes out on the water...
Read the fine print carefully especially what is excluded. Everytime I ve looked at the fine print I was wondering what was actually covered.
Not well marked?? The channel has lit buoys on each side...
I really meant have it made. Any fiberglass shop or yard should be able to
Once again the US army Corps of Engineers builds a large jetty overnight and fails to tell boaters :)...
Exactly. In the last 10+ i haven’t seen changes in shoals and depths despite a number of storms that have affected the Exumas. For shallow tracks...
Make it... the platform Is the easy part... 1” coosa board with glass on each side. The hardest part will be the brackets but any good welder can...
Navionics May be ok stateside but not in the Bahamas. There are dozens of spots where following Navionics will he you aground. Explorer charts...
I ve never used anything in my boat or the boats i run. In my old 53 during the repower I had a local polisher remove old fuel (boat had sat for 5...
The older Garmin BlueCharts used to incorporate Explorer Charts data for the Bahamas. Over the last few years they ve gradually switched to...
We usually keep some compactor bags in the dinghy and fill a couple of them when visiting sound side beaches in the Exumas. Looking at the marking...
Can’t quite see the labels on the low res image but probably I guess it depends on the boat layout but I am done a big fan of having a central...
The two fires In FTL do sound suspicious because of the timing and close locations. The fires in Key Biscayne both happened in the morning and...
Problem is that investigation results are never published which is a shame as we could all learn for these incidents. that s quite a strong of...
Better slightly oversized than always running close to the limit. The heavier the load the more heat, some margin is nice to have. I have an...
Another one this morning at Rickenbacker Marina. Smaller boats, 40 ish...
