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Vesper Cortex *not* RIP The article says the exact opposite: "Garmin is committed to the Cortex AIS/VHF/monitoring system — which may have been too much, too soon in Vesper’s hands — and there is good reason to believe that Vesper features will appear in future Garmin AIS and VHF products."...

Ouch! When I needed to work remotely from Alaska in 2021 I rented an Iridium Certus terminal for $200/week and paid ~$2000 for 10GB of data. It was slow and unreliable but it worked just well enough for me to be able to take the trip. I consider every penny of it well spent!

Can’t speak to the NEMO, but definitely plug your Starlink into the WAN port of the Peplink via Ethernet. Go full DC while you are at it to save yourself some juice. Easy to follow instructions here: https://svrenaissance.com/musings-about-starlink/

I had a similar “but for the grace of G-d” moment when I noticed that one of my fuel lines was rubbing up against the sharp edge of the engine mounting frame, which had worn through a good part of the outer casing. I had by this time been to Alaska and back without noticing the problem despite...

No knock on the Apollonian or the Greenline for what they are. Just not very interesting for the eight knot crowd.

I think one was actually a 49 and the other (the one I think you liked) was a 485. The 485 has the step up from the pilot house to the boat deck with seating up there aft of the stack. But for this and maybe a few small other nice touches they are the same boat.

I forgot to mention the American Tug 485. I love that boat. Got a tour of one from a couple tied up across the dock from me at Baranof Warm Springs in the summer of 2021. They had a new Nordhavn building and I told them to call me when it was time to unload the tug, but sadly they didn’t follow...

I’ve visited both the docks and the exhibit hall now and there wasn’t much to interest me from a trawler perspective. Most of the boats afloat are go-fast pleasure palaces, many of them with cheesy euro-style interiors full of shoddy join work and sharp corners with no hand holds and lots of...

Are you sure you don’t have seawater siphoning back through the macerator pump? If your through hull is not fully closed, the joker valves in the line can be prone to failing and allowing the tank to be filled with water. I know because I have a keyed electrical lockout on my macerator pump...

I do lock my boat to discourage casual theft of its contents, but I don’t worry about leaving my key in the ignition because (I’ve always wondered) what are you going to do with a stolen trawler in the PNW? Sell it? To whom? Joy ride at eight knots? Chop it for parts? Where and how? Which...

Aside: This reminded me that I often see people say both “cutlass bearing” and “cutless bearing” and have wondered which is correct and why. So I looked it up and found this: https://www.seattleyachts.com/news/its-correct-name-is-a-cutless-bearing

Same. I often run with the NOAA or CHS raster maps displayed on iNavx running on my iPad as a check on the Navionics vector charts running in my MFDs. I run my Vesper Cortex as a client on my boat Wi-Fi network with a reserved IP address provisioned in my Peplink router settings and have no...

None at all. The Seaview mount is designed to put the satellite antenna above the radar beam. Works great underway too.

Here’s the new flat panel mounted on my NT37. Works great but draws a lot of juice.

This thread from 2019 identifies the problem but no solutions. :( https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250402643

Are you sure it’s the GPS and not the whole app itself freezing? I also have a 12.9” iPad Pro that I use as a secondary MFD and I’ve never had this happen. For you to have had it happen on two different iPads in bizarre. I assume your OS and apps are all updated to the latest version. Have you...

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Too much power, too little tankage, Volvo engines.

I spent a rare sunny and calm but cold week working remotely from my boat in the San Juan Islands in November and loved it. Had all the anchorages and towns to myself, and the winter light on the water and shore was like liquid gold. Temps were in the thirties but I was snug as a bug with the...

I chose the Tecma over the Raritan when I replaced the original Vacu Flush two years ago and am not sure I made the right decision. The Tecma has noticeably lost flushing power recently and the repair guy can’t seem to figure out the reason.

Swimming ability aside, I’m not sure that other boaters or dock owners in the path of travel would feel the same way.

I grew up with a 34 Californian LRC with twin Perkins engines. A truly wonderful boat. Congratulations!

I just purchased but have not yet installed an MOB+ engine cutout switch. It pairs with a fob that activates on contact with water. My primary use case is for one-handing, which I do a fair amount of, positioning the boat ahead for wife and family to join and such. I have a mental movie of going...

Just completed the flat high performance install with the Seaview mount. Voila! (Anybody want to buy my residential antenna?)

I swear that a majority of the fellow Nordic Tug 37 owners I have met are former sailboaters. What they love above all else is the raised pilot house that affords great views and easy deck access to both sides while keeping you out of the weather. The great fuel economy at trawler speeds also...