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It is indicative of a unilateral attitude at a time when maximum international cooperation is needed. Either that or it is incompetence. Neither is good for us and the world. Nothing this administration does is thoughtful and considered, it’s all done in haste without planning or foresight...

I followed the saga of that poor couple that bought a TT35 and had to spend all that money making it seaworthy. That’s all that needs to be said about Mirage: just read all the threads here about the poor devils who bought their boats. I’m also not surprised to hear that there were others in a...

Is the fuel dock going to be open?

The Ft Pierce municipal government is closing all offices for the next month, that includes the marina. This is, of course, completely unworkable unless they empty all the slips and shut off the water and power. More likely the maintenance staff will keep working and there will be no new...

If we go into a lockdown like in the SF Bay Area where 6 counties are completely shutdown, all recreational boat traffic will be banned. Just like all recreational road traffic is banned there now.

Would you volunteer to be a test subject to be given a vaccine that might not work and then be injected with the Coronavirus to see if maybe it would keep you from dying? The rules governing the design and management of viral test programs are there for good reason. There are going to be...

Do you understand that testing will take a minimum of 9 months? You have to vaccinate a test group and let them live their lives for months and months, then test them for antibodies at the end of the study comparing them to a control group with no vaccinations. Then you have to test and monitor...

I’m guessing that those motors make a lot more than 600hp!

I am a real believer in replica of valuable cars that can be actually driven and not just admired. My passion is for smaller engined cars, scalpel over sledgehammer, so I built a Lotus 11 Le Mans car replica a few years back:

Not always true. My 550hp BBC was 540cu in and was set up to run on the 87 octane fuel at Lake Powell. I had 300 hours on it when I pulled it and put it into storage for later use. Hydraulic lifters, 4-barrel, Dart alloy block, heads, intake. I had it built by Larry Peto in Tucson for just over...

Who would be foolish enough to go out to a quarantined boat? Would you be willing to go boat to boat delivering supplies to strangers? I wouldn’t unless I could put them into their tender 30’ behind them and get paid online.

Even if you could connect to marina WiFi why would you want to? It’s soooo slooow........

Woah! A v-drive flatty! I never thought I’d see one here! There is nothing that sounds better than car engined boats, although 12 cylinder Detroit’s come close.

It could be because we are in the part of the curve where it looks like nothing is happening. Check back in two weeks, hopefully you are right and I’ll be wrong.

Where are they parking the cruise ships at Stock Island? Off the harbor entrance at anchor?

You might want to study the different effects of chlorine vs bromine on plastics. Bromine works just as well on growth without the negative effects of chlorine.

Are sailing catamarans permitted: few boats have as wide a beam. And are powercats prohibited, if so that would be clearly favoritism, since many are built on the same hull as the sail versions. There was a 30’-something sloop in George Town this year with a 4’ stub of a mast, I wonder if they...

Or the purr of 24 cylinders rumbling away.....,

I saw one two months ago at a gas station in Naples, Florida, it had manufacturers plates on it. Blue and black and all gorgeous!

Some people just like to go really fast, the same as a cigar can be just a cigar. I had a 24’ Lake and River runabout on Lake Powell and I just loved being able to run 550hp at WOT for miles on end the thunder echoing off the canyon walls with not a soul in sight. Where else but on the water can...

The impetus for the ICW was the German U-boat campaign of 1942/43, the idea was to be able to move oil and other heavy cargo north and south away from the high seas. Troops were always moved by train just as in the Civil War and WW1. The U-boats were also the reason many oil pipelines were...

I’m 67. BTW, those are old numbers: the latest from Italy shows 35% for 70 to 79 and 44% for 80 to 89. IIRC, it’s 16% for 60 to 69. Italy has healthcare comparable to ours except for having more beds: 3.4 per 1000 vs our 2.8 per 1000. Hospitals in America with empty beds go out of business so we...

In Italy there have been only two deaths of people under 50 out of 1266 total fatalities. Given that a large percentage of Republican voters are over 60 this could also change voting patterns and our politics.

Where is the dry heat in an air conditioned mall or supermarket? Or restaurant or store or home? The only place you will find that is walking in the parking lot. Everywhere we interact with others is air conditioned to the mid to lower 70’s.

Regarding clean oil: how often should it be changed on a 12v71ti