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I’m in love with the design of the Leen 56 trimaran, and at €1.2mm with today’s exchange rates it seems like a steal. (I read that the owner of hull number one is in his seventies so who knows when it could be had broken in for even less?) https://leen-trimarans.com/range/leen-56/

There is a cable channel that runs from the top of the chain locker down under the bed where the windlass relay is located. If you have leakage around the windlass I could imagine it finding its way down that channel.

Evenings when people are streaming are definitely slower, but we have always had service in the range of 50-100 mb/s or more for work during the day.

My wife and I both had separate Zoom video conferences going at the same time over Starlink in Desolation Sound without a hitch, and made and received voice calls via WiFi calling from our phones as well.

I have a Peplink router and Poynting antennas too. The setup works great with the Starlink running on POE and plugged directly into the WAN port. I have a T-Mobile prepaid data card that I fail over too when Starlink is being slow during peak hours in populated areas. Don’t use the Starlink...

Interestingly the “best effort” mobile/RV service is much better the further from civilization you get. We had no problem streaming in Desolation Sound earlier this summer, but couldn’t manage during peak hours in South Puget Sound where there are lots of vacation and rural homes receiving...

There are many excellent places in the towns and marinas of the BC Sunshine Coast. The Upper Deck at Secret Cove Marina and the West Coast Wilderness Lodge at Egmont are both standouts. We also enjoyed the Floathouse at Gorge Harbor Marina. Coastal Cookery in Powell River and Smitty’s Oyster...

Supposed to give better connectivity in motion or swinging at anchor having the dish just point straight up. I use mine enough at the dock that I value having it be able to point away from pilings and other obstructions. I am hoping they will do a software change at some point that would allow...

I’ve since upgraded to the Cortex, but my 8000 came with a speaker and a button that you could connect to the unit to give you a hard-wired alarm that would sound until you canceled it. Available separately as a kit too. https://shop.vespermarine.com/external-alarm-switch

We are talking about the standard residential dish which is also used for the RV service. Only the plans are different. The equipment is the same. The antenna doesn’t need to point to track the satellites. Tracking is all solid state. Some brave souls have disabled the motors so that the dish...

I mounted mine on the stern port rail of the boat deck on my NT37 and routed the cable through an existing hole that had been drilled for a portable satellite TV antenna into the back corner of the salon, and from there into a cable run in the bilge and forward to my electronics bay above the...

Back in the realm of reality, there are technologies in use or in various stages of development to scavenge waste heat from Diesel engines and put it to work—turbochargers and cabin heaters being very familiar examples, with others like bottoming cycles and thermoelectric generators seeming...

I think you have to be a current Starlink subscriber to shop for accessories on the site.

I’ve been on board that boat. It was (and may still be) owned by a member of our yacht club and was on the market recently. It is a repurposed commercial or military hull and has vast amounts of tankage filling every space under the living cabin floors. Very salty and seaworthy passagemaker for...

Nope, neither, but you can open a ticket by searching for a support topic and flagging the answer as not helpful. They’ve been quick to get back to me about account issues; but I haven’t tried on technical topics.

And then there is the “Nordhavn exception” for “Motorboats with displacement hulls of reinforced fiberglass and wood, each motorboat measuring not less than 14.47 m and not more than 36.57 m in length and weighing not less than 28 t and not more than 363 t, powered by inboard engines, other than...

What’s the situation with import duties? I was talking to a broker in BC about a used Selene who said there was a 25% duty to bring Chinese-built boats (even used from a third country) into the US these days. Is that your understanding too? Would finishing the boat in Vietnam get around that?

This article estimates that all recreational boats in the US together emitted 13.6 mmt CO2 in 2020. This amounts to three tenths of one percent of the 5,981 mmt emitted from all sources and eight tenths of one percent of all transportation emissions (27% of total per same source) in the US for...

If you look carefully you will see that these appear to be identical to the larger, square dishes that they were already selling for $2500 each for the Starlink Business service, so the pricing at $5000 a pair makes perfect sense. I think the branding of this as Starlink *Maritime* and not...

We have a Jura superautomatic at home but went with a DeLonghi Latissima Nespresso machine on board for space reasons. It briefly draws about 1200 watts on warm up, which our 3kW inverter handles fine from the house bank with a little dim of the lights. You have to pick two out of three of the...

I guess my semi-displacement Nordic Tug would be what they call “trawler style.” It looks a bit salty at least.

Fair enough, but what makes any recreational vessel a trawler?

Great fuel economy, multihull speed, lots of space and light, CE category A rating, ocean crossing range, what’s not to like?

A screaming deal at $1.2mm brand new at the current exchange rate! https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/2022-trimaran-leen-56-7338880/

I’d be surprised if they cut off service to consumer terminals in areas where they already provide it. My bet would be that they continue to offer best effort service for reasonable price to RV and residential+portability customers anywhere they provide service via satellites directly connected...