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Thanks for your kind words RT. It has been a stressful ordeal. She had been on life support for quite awhile and it was touch & go but is now recovering well. Unfortunately however it is very unlikely she will be able to go boating again for both health and medical insurance reasons. It is a...

1989 Albin 50 Trawler. Wife has suddenly taken ill and we will no longer be able to use the boat. Priced for immediate sale. $48,000 No where can I find a 50ft that floats and runs priced less. Currently located near St Petersburg. THE GOOD: Built as a custom factory order by Albin, I...

Your quite right about the oversize windows being a compromise to seaworthiness, particularly the forward facing lower bridge windows. Everything on these toy boats is a compromise of some form or another. Alas, the big windows were one of the wife's "must haves" which I was compelled to find...

Ditto most of the above points and would add it was the overall seaworthiness of the design that sold us. Other points on our shopping list Albin met were: large opening screened windows Extra wide gunwales, no teak, covered aft deck steps only, no ladders galley down

I have the same tanks, these were popular throughout the late eighties. I believe the concept was a desperate response to the failing tanks issue. In theory it was a good idea, a tank in a tank and total protection for the exterior metal. If the metal tank failed the fiberglass tank would...

I certainly can't top that but as runner-up, the PO of my last boat fastened a transducer to the transom using four 2 1/2" spiral nails. Three made it through to the inside and one pounded in on an angle went through the bottom.

Thanks for the input guys, I think that little gem that Maerin (steve) posted from NL says it all. (where do you guys find this stuff !) My genny only runs 3 to 4 hours a year and it is so oversized it is impossible to put a good load on it. Incidentally it is cast. Strangely enough the cracked...

Our boat sits for months at a time and prior to leaving it I run the engines and genny at the dock until each reaches operating temp. When I did this last visit everything seemed fine, the 3208 cats purred like kittens as did the Northern Lights 30kw genny. This visit I fired the genny up and...

Never owned one but if dock gossip is worth anything, it is my understanding that they were cored below the water line, something that I think a builder like Hyundai should have known better. I was also told their sojourn into the small yacht market was short lived as they simply could not make...

Fugawi on windows 7. Been using this Nav program since it was released. It has a great method for handling your library of charts and is very intuitive to use. The main reason that keeps me with them is I can't be bothered with the steep learning curve for a competitive program

Looked at your pic Art, good lord some of those finger docks must be 1 kilometer long. I can't imagine arriving at the marina late after a grueling long drive only to be confronted with parking the car a block away and carting weeks worth of provisions down a kilometer long dock in the pouring...

I had a Westmar side scan with retractable searchlight dome which could be set to scan any quadrant at any angle and could show obstacles and rising terrain hundreds of feet ahead. I bought it used from Coast Guard, was about 30K new. Great for wreck hunting. Have since replaced it with a...

It does indeed look like a toaster. I like it, not very nautical looking but fills a niche in the market. Enclose the upper deck with eisenglass and you get 1700 sq ft of living space in a 45 ft boat. Thats a pretty neat trick. Aside from a looper it would make a great floating apartment for...

The Sitex unit reads/plots both C-Map & navionics, the Furuno only C-Map. I think if it were me and the unit was strictly for redundant backup, I would go with a plotter that used whichever charts that your main units did not. ie: if your main units are using navionics or c-map charts, I...

X4 Didn't know this existed either. My apologies to those I failed to respond to in the past.

Well that's disappointing, first year of many we won't be at the boat in Dec. We rarely take in the show but would have looked forward to dropping by to say hello and taking in one of your seminars. .....oh well maybe next time. Have fun, hope you get a great turnout.

In Canada metric Allen keys are great fun for testing Murphys law, each is close enough to it's standard counterpart it's nearly a guarantee to strip the head. The best part is when the two sets get mixed up. Can hardly wait until they metricize screwdrivers. Phillips drivers are only good for...

but I'm curious if anybody has any knowledge of why this would be? Different yards? Different groups of workers? Trying to hit different price points for different customers? From my research I have found all of the above is true. Also, adding to the apparent inconsistency is that a well...

On a cold engine will not most of the antifreeze go out the exhaust because the thermostat is closed?

It was/is somewhat true regarding carrying paper charts. Vector charts are acceptable when used with a plotter, strangely raster on a plotter do not qualify unless backed up by paper (??? they are digitized paper) No charts required at all if your in home waters and within X miles of shore...

I understand, thanks Chris

B&B, I am not familiar with this. Do I understand correctly that an Umbrella would be tied to your marine policy extending liability over and above it's limits? or is it a standalone policy that extends liability to all your assets whatever they may be?

Thanks to all, some great info and much appreciated. As expected, seems to be some mixed opinions on Progressive and all points well taken. In my case I don't really care about coverage of the boat itself, I don't have a lot invested but I am very concerned about liability. The few companies I...

Anybody deal with Progressive Insurance? I'm thinking about going with them. Would like to hear your comments good or bad.

Ontario eh? Welcome to TF. Which port on the Great Lakes do you call home?