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Hello everyone: I'm helping my brother with a top-to-bottom restoration of a Fisher 34 motorsailor. He is basically ripping everything out and doing a top to bottom restoration including all new wiring and electronics. He's asking me for advice on which combo chartplotter/sonar/radar...

No worries. We don't plan to cramp their style. Last thing I want to do is go drinking with my daughters. But my wife did buy UW season tickets and is on the wait list for the Kraken. She is threatening to get Mariners tickets too if they finally make the playoffs. We aren't really the type...

Thanks guys. I guess I need to research Seattle area marinas and get on the waitlist of the best prospects. This is a long-term process. We were originally thinking something like a smaller Nordic Tug but they seem scarce as hens teeth around here right now. So expanding to other likely...

If only our daughter was at UPS instead of UW! The idea is to be able to walk or bike back to the boat, not fight football traffic to get to Tacoma after the games. At that rate we might as well just continue driving home to Camas! Last time I did some research it didn’t seem like moorage...

Yes. One of our daughters is in the UW Husky Marching Band and so we have season tickets and usually drive up for all the UW football games and sometimes even basketball games (I’m also an alum). Unfortunately the PAC-12 in its lust for TV revenue schedules most of the football games at night...

My wife and I have been casually boat shopping for some time. We live in the Portland area and have been thinking about a smaller Nordic Tug or larger Ranger Tug or something within that general range of about 30 ft that would be comfortable for two people to do mainly short-term cruising in...

Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime all allow you to download shows and movies for offline viewing. The Netflix limit is enormous. I think you can download up to 100 titles at a time. I'm not sure what it is for Amazon Prime or if they have one. For Hulu the limit is 25 titles at a time. That...

We use Verizon and are happy with it. T-mobile had poor coverage in my work location (outside of Vancouver WA) and my house in Camas so I dropped T-Mobile for Verizon and the coverage is superior here at home. As others have said, just make sure your plan includes free roaming in Canada...

I guess I'm the only one here who walks the docks and wonders how all of those big boats are paid for. It's funny. On some financial forums I frequent everyone is discussing and bragging about the refi rate they just got. Here it seems the attitude is "don't even ask about money because it's...

They do that all the time in Latin America. It isn't to help the customer out. It is a way for them to cheat on the sales tax or VAT which can be high in some Latin American countries. If they do cash sales or give you a reduced receipt then there is less VAT they have to submit. In your...

That's why I'm not asking for people's personal testimonies here. I'm not trying to do a poll of forum participants. I'm just wondering if this is some sort of statistic that the industry collects or if is something widely known in the industry. I'm sure the real estate industry knows EXACTLY...

Hi everyone. Does anyone know if there are any statistics on means of boat purchases for the kind of trawler yachts generally discussed here? We were vacationing on San Juan Island last week and I walked the docks at Roche Harbor and started to wonder how all those expensive boats were...

If it were me I would make sure that: 1. The seller is responsible for paying commission on the $20,000 price difference, not you. 2. You get a clean bill of sale for $57,000 to present to the tax authorities. 3. You write a check for $57,000 not $77,000 If they want to sell the boat and...

I'm 45 min away. You have some errand need done?

Thanks everyone. I also contacted American Tug and Nordic Tug and the both use Associated Transport out of Marysville WA for much of their shipping. They both say they commonly have Portland-area owners who ship their boats up to Puget Sound on a regular basis, usually to Olympia to save on...

Thanks! We definitely plan to explore the Columbia. Middle daughter is applying to Whitman among other schools so we might have a reason to head out that way. Just trying to understand in advance what the parameters are so we don’t fall in love with a boat that is 1 ft too big in some...

What do you mean by hydraulic assist under the berth? Are you just talking about gas struts of the sort that are on SUV rear hatches and common on campers like air streams? Doesn’t AT already provide something like that? Or are you talking about some sort of mechanical push button system that...

At that rate I would just do it myself. I’m a semi retired teacher with the time. My wife is a senior physician who still works big hours and doesn’t. So her schedule controls our vacation time. I’m guessing that the fuel and cost of a hired skipper to run the outer coast would exceed the...

That is my one reservation about the standard American Tug. They had a different model at the Seattle Boat show this spring that is the same hull but with a second stateroom tucked under the galley and a less upscale interior that I thought was still perfectly nice. The 362 model I think it...

Kids are in HS and out of college and not super eager to join the boating lifestyle so we aren't really counting on them long-term. We are more interested in getting a really nice couple's boat that can accommodate the kids in the galley if/when they ever want to join us. One is 9th grade and...

Thanks. Yes, the Nordic Tug 37 is right in the sweet spot of what I would consider the ideal boat for our purposes if transport is not completely unrealistic. It is also getting into the size range that I would feel comfortable driving one around the outer coast of WA. A Ranger Tug might be...

Yeah. We don't really know what sort of boating we would most commonly do on the Columbia. I would anticipate occasional cruises up into the Gorge and down river as far as Astoria, perhaps even along some of the outer coast of Oregon to say Newport or some of the smaller ports in-between. I'm...

Thanks for the input. I'm not particularly looking for a flybridge model but then I've never owned one either. I've always just navigated from the main cabin. Regarding trailering. I have no intention of doing any trailering myself. I don't own a big truck and have no place to park one or...

The wife and I are back to boat shopping for a trawler/tug that we can keep mostly in the Portland area but use annually in Puget Sound and BC/Alaska. We previously lived in Juneau and owned a series of boats up there culminating with a 27' Seasport Seamaster that we took all over the northern...

I had a successful partnership two decades ago in Juneau when I bought a 27' SeaSport Seamaster together with a friend that we mainly used for recreational diving. What made it work well for us was that we were also dive partners so most of our boat use was actually together. We explored a lot...