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The outward facing bolts of Mantus rail-mount clamps slot perfectly into the Starlink wall mount bracket.

Last summer while my wife and I were working remotely from Desolation Sound and the Sunshine Coast with the residential dish she would often do a Zoom call from the salon while we were underway, sometimes while I also did an audio call while tending the helm. (The Canadian equivalent of their...

Available slips on the Florida side were running 2k+/mo with an annual lease. On the Boston area side I found one place with availability in Salem that wanted over $20k for the season. So we would have been in for over $60k a year just for parking. By contrast a week bareboating a three cabin...

A key limitation for us is that for the next four years we could only do the Florida/Bahamas side during school breaks—two weeks in December, one week each in February and April. So waiting around for a weather window would be out, as would a long crossing to the south. Also, as you move further...

I definitely assumed wrongly that the Bahamas would be warm, sunny, and accessible from S Florida in the winter. Even so, for as much as it would cost to do this, we could keep our existing boat in Seattle and charter in the Carribean for two or three weeks a year and still come out ahead...

Thanks to everyone for all the suggestions. In addition to the moorage issues (or dockage, as they call it in Massachusetts—moorage there means a mooring ball), there is the issue of insurance. It turns out that moving up from 40 to 57 LOA in an older boat in an unfamiliar cruising ground is not...

Residential is priced the same in the US once you add the mobility option. Are you sure it’s not the same in Mexico?

You’ve got it nearly right. In addition to cruising New England and the Maritimes we’d like to use the boat as a pied a terre in the Boston area to be near our daughter during summer and fall, then do week or two excursions from Florida in and around school breaks in the winter, moving back and...

My understanding is that the Ku and V bands that Starlink uses for user links (as well as the Ka band that they also use for base station links) are relatively susceptible to rain fade because the wavelengths at those higher frequencies are small relative to the size of the rain drops. GPS and...

The boat is a 57 Tolley with big MTUs that cruise at 17 knots. The idea is to make the run from Fort Lauderdale to Freeport in five hours or so then putt-putt around more economically before blasting back and flying home. Other than the grand in fuel it would take each way does that seem doable...

Don’t think I haven’t considered it! But it wouldn’t get much use in the next few years if this comes together. Basically the situation is that our seventeen year old daughter is in a school for special-needs kids outside of Boston where she will likely stay until she is 22. Boating is the...

Although we live in the Pacific Northwest, my wife and I are seriously considering buying a boat on the East Coast to vacation on in the Caribbean in the winter and spring during our kids' school breaks, and to work remotely from in New England and the Maritimes during the summer when they are...

I have a single tank of that size on my Nordic Tug and it just lasts the season for cooking alone. Even with a pair of them I’d imagine you’d be having to refill them both pretty frequently if you were using propane for heat and hot water. Doesn’t make a lot of sense to me with hundreds of...

Seaview Marine now has a dedicated mounting solution for the new Starlink flat high performance RV terminal. From their response to my inquiry: Here is the link to the adapter plate, schematic below: https://www.seaviewglobal.com/products/modular-top-plates

If you were to do gas what size tank would you need and where would you fill it? None of the fuel docks I know in my area have propane at the dock. You have to lug your tank up to shore to get it filled. Seems like any tank big enough to service those needs for any stretch of time would be too...

Or you did carefully calculate your fuel burn range to get to the cheap fuel dock in Anacortes and you did monitor your tanks but didn’t realize that the senders are located at the back and will show several inches left when you start sucking air if you are on a half-step. Then knowing how to...

I was pretty shocked the first time I took a big cargo ship wake head on in my 37. The well between the first and second wave was so steep and deep that it felt like we were going to pitch pole. I now try to place myself to cross well behind where the period of the wake has had a chance to...

My dad has told when he was a waiter on the Alaska State Ferries back in the sixties (they had waiters back then) his rating (they had to give you one and this was the lowest you could get) was “ordinary seaman, wiper.”The running joke was that you needed a higher rating to wipe the Captain’s...

I just spent a week taking advantage of some gorgeous late fall weather to work remotely in the San Juans and can report great Starlink speeds throughout the trip. I was even able to stream HD shows during peak hours in the evenings. Of course, there was nobody else up there to jocky for...

Data caps for residential customers are good news for boaters on the RV plan. They only time I’ve ever had problems with Starlink is during peak streaming hours in areas with lots of vacation homes during the high season, namely South Puget Sound and San Juan Islands during summer. Those are the...

We have a 2001 NT 37 that we’ve cruised on long trips to Canada and Alaska in the PNW and have the same experience as other owners who have chimed in on this thread. A bit rolly in a beam sea but significantly mitigated by speed and course adjustments. Have looked into various stabilization...

I invested in the full Seabits setup and it never did me any good. As a practical matter in my experience, it is rarely if ever the case that a cell signal is strong enough to be successfully boosted but not strong enough to be picked up by your phone for any meaningful period of time. Perhaps...

Any thoughts on whether mounting it on top of my closed array radar would created interference problems? I wouldn’t think so because the radar emits to the sides and the cable which would cross the radar beam path to come down inside looks to be well shielded.

I believe that it’s for mounting forward pointing floodlights so that they won’t blind you by reflecting off the foredeck as they would if they were mounted on top of the wheelhouse.

Just placed my order!