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Boat Insurance Agency is a great source for Red Shield and other specialty boat insurers. Great people and super helpful every time I have needed to add a rider for trips outside my home area. https://www.boatinsurance.net/

This guy: https://seabits.com/

Ketchikan has the advantage of having direct water access to the airport. Tracy Arm/Pack Creek/Baranof Warm Springs is a highlight-reel itinerary for first-timers out of Juneau. Glacier Bay via White Sulphur Hot Springs, Elfin Cove, and Point Adolphus out of Sitka will also wow them.

The broker didn’t have the engine hours because he didn’t have the key to turn on the digital guages. In five years of mostly sitting it could not have been many. The new generators had a hundred odd hours on them. He was asking $299k but suggested $250 would do the trick. The engine room was...

Now here’s a sad story. Older couple put two new John Deere engines and two new generators in this Tolly 57 then lived aboard for five years while their health failed and the boat came down around them. I took a look to see if it might be worth trying to restore but all the water damage to the...

My slip is near a marine construction yard that produces a lot of dust and grime, including what seems to be drops of airborne tar or coke that leave spots on my cream colored gel coat that I am unable to get out with ordinary cleaners and elbow grease. I’m on a long waiting list for a slip in a...

Where are you getting those drawings? When I follow the link it says “stay tuned.”

What’s on the starboard side? An extra-wide head?

I’m aware of that—all the more reason for them to bring the extended set into the 21st century.

The extended stock label set appears to be lost in the 1980s. HAM Radio, LORAN, and TV/VCR, but no WiFi, Network, or Internet. :banghead:

Looking back at the Aleutian, the salon and pilot house seem bright and airy enough all the teak notwithstanding, but where I would lose the missus is the sleeping cabins. Now my view is that dark is good down below since the sun comes up early in the summer here and they are made for sleeping...

I’ll ask just that and report back to this thread. Seattle to Ketchikan at eight knots with fuel in reserve is my absolute deal breaker. (My current NT 37 did it with 1/4 capacity left in the tanks.)

The Greenline 48 fly looks nice for our purposes (we want three sleeping cabins) and is certainly well priced, but the range of ~600 nm is pretty pathetic.

A Grand Banks is exactly the kind of boat I can’t sell my wife on. Too dark and gloomy inside she would say looking, for example, at this very nice 53 Aleutian that is currently for sale: https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/2011-grand-banks-53-aleutian-rp-8445290/ For my part, I’ve shied away...

This weekend at the Boats Afloat show in Seattle my wife and I toured several boats with “Euro” interiors. Lots of light colored wood and fabrics, large expanses of glass, no teak, brass, portholes, or other salty bits. She likes the bright, airy, open feel of these boats. I’m less enamored but...

In the US, per 28 USC 1333, admiralty and maritime jurisdiction is exclusively vested in the regular United States District Courts that hear regular civil and criminal matters. A US District Court is said to be “sitting in admiralty” when it acts as an admiralty court under this grant of...

Thank you for this! I was recently scratching my head wondering why the ColRegs didn’t expressly deal with responsibilities of or in relation to moored vessels, thinking it odd that they weren’t included as a specific example under the heading of vessels restricted in their ability to maneuver...

We cruise all year in the PNW and don’t winterize our boat at all. But we do have at least one sustained cold snap each year so I leave the diesel furnace thermostat on low all winter on my NT 37 as insurance against freezing and to keep back the damp. The amount of fuel it uses over a season is...

Is also don’t like the handset ergonomics and continue to use my Raymarine for VHF comms much of the time. I do like the ability to check that my battery is charged remotely (I have accidentally hip checked the shore power breaker off while packing up the boat before and run down my battery)...

Mine never made a dime’s worth of difference. I tore it out and repurposed the antenna for a Vesper Cortex after I got my Starlink. Total waste of money IMHO.

I doubt they geofence. I expect instead that the offshore limit is a function of the current generation of satellites needing a direct connection to a ground station. It will be interesting to see if they allow RV and mobility customers to connect to interconnected satellites off-shore on a...

I have a label maker on board for just that purpose. Every consumable has a sticker with the date and/or engine hours when it was last changed.

I know when I bought my almost twenty year old boat from its first owner I was grateful to have a handwritten mechanical log of all the repairs, maintenance, and upgrades he had performed or had done over the years. Maybe a spreadsheet would have had the same effect, but the overall impression...

We cruise all year in the PNW but summer is definitely still in high gear in the BC Gulf Islands. Sunset from Poet’s Cove:

This would be about four years out for us when the nest hopefully empties and in connection with cashing out our Mercer Island house and finding a cottage with a dock of our own outside the Seattle commuting area. No illusions about finding a place to tie it up on Lake Union, that’s for sure!