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Back in the '80's I owned the second largest contract FRP molding company in Florida. We made hundreds of hulls and decks for dozens of boat builders - from liferaft containers to 55 ft sailboats. In the good times, when we were smoking along I was buying 10 55 gal. drums of polyester resin a...

I think he uses it as a door stop in his garage. Mike Palm Coast FL

I own half of a aerospace centric CNC machine shop. My responsibility is to program 7 milling machines and 2 lathes several times a day. I do it all from the main cabin of my DeFever while cruising up and down the east coast and the Chesapeake. I use both a Verizon and ATT smart phone tethered...

The information you are looking for is available, but it will cost you 20 bucks. It is contained in a 3 part series that Dave Gerr wrote for ProBoat dot com. Additional details and calculations are in a 2 part article written by Eric Sponberg on shaft strength calculations, also in ProBoat...

Without getting into the finer details of this argument I'll just add that you can buy directly from Pacer Marine Wire by going to their website and registering. Pacer makes their wire in their factory in Tampa FL, unlike a previously mentioned company that has their wire made by contract...

CF = cruisersforum.com - The new owners sailboat site. I'm not a member there, and have never posted. Lot's of good info since sailboats have many of the same equipment that we powerboat owners do. I owned sailboats for over 30 years. I check it about once or twice a month. The problem with...

My congrats to our founders - Thank you very much for starting and maintaining TF for all these years. While my account appears new I registered on the day "flyjbaker" announced the new forum on the* T&T list. From T&T - Bakers post - Fri Oct 5 19:39:18 EDT 2007 "Hello fellow listees, **...

It's very off topic, but since it's been brought up - I was caught in traffic just a few hundred feet from the 14th street bridge when the Air Florida flight hit the bridge. I saw it and I'll never forget it. I watched Lenny Skutnik jump into the river from the opposite bank and rescue the...

Thanks. Interesting link. * Mike Palm Coast Fl

Non Skid pattern Starboard. * * Mike Palm Coast Fl

. If the original poster owns a Taiwanese, Hong Kong, or Singaporean type boat with wood framed windows, and just want's to replace the glass, I'd go with laminated safety glass. When tempered glass, as used in hundreds of Marshall Boat Co./Wellcraft Californians breaks, it goes everywhere - I...

There is a difference between a home marina, and a transient marina. When I kept the little DeFever at a marina I never expected or ever received any help entering or exiting my slip. It was my responsibility to be prepared to dock and undock. During our trips up north from FL to ME we stop a...

RickB wrote - "Just the thousands that are foreign flagged." "Thousands" As in more than one thousand? Are you suggesting many thousands? If so, the problem of foreign tax scofflaws may be larger than I imagined. If that's what you are saying* then it is time to talk, yet again, to my State...

Capn Craig - Boats don't turn around their propellers, they turn around their center of lateral resistence (CLR). The turning force is a product of the moment created by the distance between the CLR and the rudder (D), and the velocity of the water moving past the rudder (V). Moment = D times...

Badgers' link Interesting. Need to look at it some more. Mike Palm Coast FL