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I just got mine I just got my coast guard license through sea school. The class was great and very informative of things comercial that a private boater does not necessarily know. Included they process your drug test, your physical and help with the filing process. The licensing process is...

I have looked into learning to pound cotton but agree with Nomad Willy that it would be an amateur job and there are no yards here that can be counted on to pull me if I need a redo. Glass is expensive and labor intensive. The input that I get from people is that it only prolongs the life of...

No but I'm planning there and the Grand Banks forum as well.

I am at the final stages of a major restoration project on a 1973 49' Grand Banks Alaskan and have to make a decision on caulking the bottom. The boat is in a yard in Saint Pete Florida and I cannot find anyone who does conventional cotton caulking and have been looking into alternatives. A...

I have posted before looking for single flexible window track for my 1974 Alaskan Trawler. The windows have rounded window corners and the Stanpro company has stop making this item. All of the suppliers that I have tried to contact are out of stock. Does anyone have any squirreled away? I...

Except for a woodie with a varnished stern

Thank you for your suggestions. I have tried to get connected with GW woodies and am having no luck starting a new account or getting an answer back from their support. I am sure there will be more information when I get on it. In the meantime I am now not able to find where to start a new...

I am replacing the stainless window tracking on the sliding glass on an GB Alaskan Cruiser. I have found the stainless replacement and plastic channels as well. Does anyone have any input as to a preference? Also two of the corners are 90 degree but the back ones are like 70 and 110. How do...

Thank you for all the feedback. The boat was pulled at a slipway in Tarpon Springs last month before I bought her and they agreed to continue in the future although I think Sneads would be closer to Saint Petersburg. I will look into that next year. What I need, that a slip way will not allow...

Hello I am new to the forum and just bought a 49 Alaskan Trawler. It is a wood boat that was built in 1974 and has been in the Tampa bay area for a while. It has been pulled over the last 40 years by travel lifts but now yards (even previously pullers) no longer wood boats of any kind. I am...