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Trawler Forum, AGLCA and builder-specific association forums are more relevant for me. Much more timely, as well. I'd like hear what's up with boating into Canada and the Bahamas, or lock closures in real time; a magazine cycle will be 2+ month old news. Magazines cant match a forum for ability...

Welcome! FWIW - We have found residential marina life a very different experience from transient marina life. In St Pete, our dock is ~25% live-aboard and 75% seldom used boats. No transients near us; they are on another dock, far away. That dock density and the lifestyle of live-aboards, many...

Rich - I agree with you 14A starting current sounds too good to be true, hence I am asking of those with a MarinAire of their experience. You said, "There are a number of advantages to softer starting you should pay attention to before discarding the idea." Other than reducing starting current...

AC Soft Starter needed? Time to replace a 20yo 12K btu Aqua Cal self-contained marina AC. The unit powers up and the reversing valve clicks but the compressor is inop in AC and heat. MarinAire 11K btu looks good for a number of reasons. I'd like to avoid a "soft start" capacitor if I can...

That's a slick e- compass. Too bad it is 0183 comm and not NMEA 2000. I'd hate to buy new gear with 20 year old electronic comm protocols. Sure, I can bridge 0183 data to my NMEA 2000 network, but why buy new gear built to an old standard....

Raised swim platform, TV cabinet under the flag on the aft deck, 3 port holes on Starboard rather than than the usual 5. Every boat is different. We may pull up next to her if she's still there a couple months.

A wiser and older FL boater and his wife told me they spend more time at the dermatologist than at the beach. I first saw a proper pilothouse on a Krogen Whaleback and fell in love with the space. A flybridge is awesome in the proper weather and lighting conditions. A pilothouse is comfortable...

We are Swamp Commanders! The Dismal Swamp was awesome! Thank you Looper's ahead of us for the condition reports. It's a beautiful, peaceful place. We overnighted at the visitors center dock and met some kind fellow loopers along the way. Another Looper qualitatively described bumps as heard...

Thanks for the feedback, everyone. A couple "Loopers" went through yesterday and report normal depths and a few log bumps. No Hassocks or masses of floating debris as had been reported to me (second-hand) a couple days ago. We are in Elizabeth City today and will enter the Swamp tomorrow...

Canada has started allowing USA pleasure craft cruising between USA states (Washington-Alaska) to transit, stop and provision in Canada. Restrictions apply. Shout out to Alaskan Sea-Duction's excellent thread: Crossing U.S. and Canadian Border PNW What is the implication to USA pleasure craft...

Hello from Oriental, NC. We are looping north and would like to cruise the Dismal Swamp later this week. We heard there are recent problems with debris and depth. I am mostly concerned about logs and debris. If someone with a recent Dismal Swamp passage could share their experience, it would be...

For the Great Lakes, we'd like to take the Trent-Severn Waterway, but that's up to Canada. We fit under the Erie Canal western half 15’ 6” clearance limit by a foot. And that route would also be fun. This is really weird - Florida started vaccinating >60y old's on Monday; I'm 60. We docked at...

Finally, we started the Great Loop! Left St Petersburg Saturday morning and are already in Clewiston, getting ready to cross Lake O in the morning. Light wind and 80F. Man, this is awesome. :dance:

Crunchy? Are you kidding? Must be natural smooth peanut butter with no additives. Would you put crunchy oil in your diesels? Mine on rice cakes - good shelf life for cruising and fewer carbs than bread so I can rationalize eating more peanut butter.

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The only time I do not enjoy my boat's voluminous interior and elevated pilothouse are when they act as windage while docking. My wind instrument helps me manage it. An advantage of the solid state (Airmar) instruments is near-instantaneous readings of wind speed and direction. Wind data...

Per Airmar, the WS-220WX WeatherStation Instrument is “IPX6 waterproof rating (units with the relative humidity option added are IPX4 waterproof rated)”. My interpretation is that if you get the Relative Humidity Sensor you lose significant waterproofing. My Maretron/Airmar WSO100 weather...

We have used Netgear 6000450 passive MIMO Antenna (~$40, Amzn) for 18 months with a Jetpack 8800L Mimo. I ran several tests with and without it - it improved reception 1 bar on a 5 bar scale. I am satisfied. Our Verizon cellular internet has been near flawless from St Pete to Key West to...

Here's the link for the Okeechobee Lake Weather Forecast: https://forecast.weather.gov/shmrn.php?mz=amz610 This was hard for me to find, so I am passing it along. OP Woodscrew: Saturday looks ideal for either route. The Lake is currently high, so more forgiving of course divergences. Rim route...

Not that there's anything wrong with having a composting toilet...

Good suggestions! The GF and I talked it over and are looking forward to giving its a try. There are several ways this could work - some experimenting is due. We have this cool Mantus ¾” (diameter "D") Carabiner (4,500# wl, 19,000# ubs) that came with the boat. I haven't figured out how to use...

This is an example of a super-well maintained Manatee. It had consistent use, improvement and maintenance by a knowledgeable owner. Certainly one of the top 10 in the Manatee fleet. I looked for a year for a great Manatee and couldn't find one. Lucky buyer!

We cruised past Golden Ray twice on our St Pete-Charleston-St Pete trip. This week the first section was cut and placed on barge. 4,000 Golden Ray Special new cars are becoming available. Low mileage but might want to have it rust-proofed... Prolly lost that new car smell....

At about 10' above the waterline, my GH37's upper aft deck is even higher than the bow. Also, I don't think my ex-wife and my girlfriend would collaborate effectively in mooring. Though it would be handy... Ted, How was your ride down the OWW?