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I have a lot of respect for folks like you, even though I am a Hungarian Canadian. :thumb: As a three year old kid, I watched my father disappear with machine gun in hand in Budapest, 1953, as Russian tanks were rolling through our streets blowing buildings all to hell. Thank you and let's hope...

You have that overhanging brow of your wheelhouse deckhead too. Much like in many cases of flybridge boats as well, the bridge brow overhangs forward. Many people don't realize, but the over hanging brow is designed to break the falling waves in a horizontal axis, therefore dissipating their...

I am a surveyor and smart clients call me ahead of time, to discuss what boats they are looking at. Normally, of course, advise is free, and many times I may steer a client away from a boat that I either have already surveyed and is not good, or is one that has industry known "issues". If you...

When your wheelhouse windows are so far aft, forward raking is not so much for seakeeping safety but more so for being able to oversee a working weatherdeck. If she is not a working boat, and the wheelhouse is so far aft, raking the windscreen backwards in yacht fashion is quite acceptable. If...

Thank You Pineapple Girl - lots of pictures on our boat blog: http://www.cruisingdog.com :)

We were lucky to find this spot. No, the only place to do it on a mooring is in the south. Boot Key Harbor was great for that. We spent the nineties on our own mooring that we put down. Hundreds live aboard in Toronto and we were there for a few years but wanted so much to get away from the big...

Love it - she is beautiful! It's all in the lines; utilitarian or not....

We have been up for a few years now in the Great White North. We have seen as low -20º (below) farenheit and were frozen solid into the ice. Have two 30 Amps coming on board and a diesel heat as well. Love it! The winds blow and the snow falls so the decks need shoveling off in the morning just...

Wendy and I have been doing it on the same boat since 1982. I am sixty and we intend to stay onboard the boat as long as I can haul up on a line. I just don't think I can live as healthy physically or mentally in any other place than on the water. When I become a hazard to the boat, others on...

Organization writing our voluntary standards (ABYC / NFPA), Coast Guard and environment regulations do not allow fuel supply, (and vent and fill) lines to be anywhere but top of tanks. It is difficult to get the happy medium, where you can allow sludge to build for a while but not be too far off...

I'm new to the forums but I couldn't help for the fun of it to post how we did it in the early days of DTV. I bought an old Autohelm wheel pilot at the Big Pine Fleemarket for 15 bucks, mounted the dish on an old helm chair swivel and presto: Direct TV while on the hook in Boot Key Harbor, in...