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I maybe leaning a tad to the extreme here...call me paranoid; call me prepared. As a fairly recent combat veteran, small arms expert and FL CCW carrier, I'm always armed with something. If you carry every day, you probably have a favorite weapon for that purpose. Just like with anything else...

I can tell you my experience...take it how you will. We have DTV on all of our Gulf of Mexico offshore platforms. The platforms are stationary, but when a helicopter lands and departs, there is a brief interruption in reception. Not because the aircraft physically blocks the signal, but because...

Well, you can forget about using it in the Gulf around Louisiana! No shortage of hydrocarbons here!

Here, here! Thus my whole contention with...that OTHER boating website. I received Chapman's as a hand-me-down. As the son of a son of a sailor, I thought it was a most appropriate gift. I intend to collect certain volumes of nautical texts, but they will be of the titles that you referred to...

FF, if the book in question is a recognized text used by the ABYC or in Marine Surveyor training, then I can understand the exorbitant price. I'm not a book guy. With so much information available today on the internet, the information books contain is just about obsolete. I didn't say books...

I looked at his website and while I found most of the information useful, his book is a little high. I have David Kroenkes's book, "Know your boat" and I find his information entertaining as well as useful. I bought the book a few years ago and although most of the information in it was geared...

Oh, I didn't mean we were sold on the GB. I mean, its lovely, but there are lots of others out there. Nothing is out of the question at this point. I'm really looking forward to the whole process, but I am trying to remain cautiously enthusiastic about it. Getting all jazzed up like a little boy...

Well, its on now! After accepting an invitation to take a guided tour of a beautiful GB42, we're sold. I kinda figured we would be. Thanks Steve and Rich! It was amazingly informative to be given a tour of a boat that wasn't for sale. Well, everything is for sale, as our host explained, but he...

I have AT&T's unlimited date plan, which is essentially limited to land. Even in South Louisiana, on the beach, I have been hit with "international roaming" charges. Telephony isn't so bad, but data will kill you. $.50 for a text message and $.10 per KB or something like that. I've had to call...

Yes there are a lot of rivers to explore down here, Charles. BTW, Patterson was one of my favorite bases to fly out of when I was with Air Logistics. I've played hundreds of holes at Achafalaya and I've eaten hundreds of crabs and crawfish at Susie's in Morgan City. I'm working out of Venice...

That's awesome, Woody. I'm not far behind you. My finances have seen both sides of the storm and will be correct within about 20 months or so. Two divorces within 10 years is financially crippling, I don't care how much one makes. I'm on the downhill run. so to speak, from the last one and I can...

Yeah, I'm sure I over-simplified it to a degree. BUT, side by side...c'mon man...you have to admit that a slipped boat is less of an ordeal than a shore boat. I'm still going to have a little shore boat, but it will be child's play compared to the behemoth on wheels we just got rid of, or even a...

Thanks all, and thank you Baker for posting that link. That is a beautiful boat. You're all actually giving me exactly what I asked for in my original post; options! Peter makes an excellent point in that it may not necessarily be a "trawler" but rather the whole idea of coastal cruising that...

Baker, thanks for the reality check. Here's the boat I'm sort of using as a "standard" http://www.trawlerforum.com/t42546442/1981-42-californian-for-sale-99500-or-best-offer-located-nor/ I'm here to learn, express some of my own experiences in hopes that someone may point something out to me...

Marin, I see from the last two previous posts*that you are well respected here. Clearly your insight, knowledge and ability to convey all of the above has earned you that respect, and you've definitely earned mine. Thanks. You mentioned engine logs. That is something I have long thought of as...

I'm assuming that most of the vessels represented here are docummented. What is involved in changing the registered name of a docummented vessel...other than the time honored maritime ritual, sacrifices to the gods, etc?

Let's say it happens and you are unfortunate enough to be inside the wheelhouse or cabin. We've all seen it on TV and in the movies, and having been through the "dunker", I'd have to say that the scene depicted on the screen ain't too far off the point. Supposing glass on the rolling side of the...

By no means would I even consider a gas engine in a boat over 4 tons! Gracious sakes!! Yeah, they're a dime a dozen comparred to diesels or even outboards, but you gotta ask yourself, why? Because they don't last as long, their technology is simple, they're inexpensively manufactured and...

Phill, it sounds like you interpretted my concern about buying too early. Based on other life plans we have, I think it should work out for us. Right now, we have an average size 3br home on a cul-de-sac with two high school juniors. One has his sights set on the Marine Corps, (yes, I've tried...

I just attended by bi-anual water survival training. The training is conducted in a simluator that replicates a helicopter ditching into the sea. Due to the top heavy design of helicopters, upon entering the water, they capsize nearly 100% of the time, so the simulator rolls over just as soon as...

Wow, Marlin...exactly what I was looking for. Thank you. I know some of my questions were loaded with ambiguity and there are no direct answers, but I totally dug your cryptic logic and I think I have a clearer picture of what's ahead. I think you can see what I've been getting at with my...

Thanks, Captain. That's some good advice and I intend to follow it, as well as everything else I absorb. I am in total agreement as to being the final judge of if a boat "fits" or not. Yeah, I'm one of those guys you referred to that has been in small fishing boats all my life and now I want...

No boat, presently...but its already named. My wife has a thing for sea turltes. They're all over the house and even on the outside of the house right under our street number, (big scortched copper thing, really neat). On our honeymoon this past May, she got a little sea turtle tattoo on her...

Hello all. I've recently been bitten with the trawler bug. I've been boating all my life and I have been through a pair of offshore fishing boats in the last two years. My last was a big Pro Line, twin OB walk-around. After carefully examining our intended usage of the next boat, it seems that...