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I have a Nimble Artic 26. I have some issues that I would like to discuss with other Nimble owners. I love the boat. I just found a new issue with rain leaking through the topsides into the foam beneath the cockpit and rotting the bulkhead between the foam and starboard locker. Have you...

In Florida Today, preparing to bring Bagatelle Home to Texas

I took ownership of a Nimble Artic yesterday. She has a tabernacle mast. I am wondering if there is any other owners that can help. Me figure out how to raise or lower the mast while underway. I also have a west wight potter. I have raised and lowered her mast underway. Her mast is lighter than...

Note to self... Yelling at my wife is never a good practice. Diplomacy is a better policy

I have visited 5 hardware stores 15 times looking for this, no luck I need a hose with a 1 inch garden hose connector on one end, 46 inches of hose , maybe PVC, and a 1 inch FIP connector on the other end. Looks like this: http://www.cactus.org/~tbodine/Advice/SinkHose.JPG Any advice...

I just looked at a similar boat built in 1997 in Harlingen Texas. The owner bought it in Montana and drove it down. He had no problems.

Happened to me in Jolly Harbor Marina. $2 EC for a shower. I was staying in the cheap slips though. in 2001.

We went to the boat show in Kemah. Now the wife suggests that I cruise with out her. She'll meet up with me from time to time in which ever port I'm in. Now to find a boat she'll want to visit and I want to sail.

Visiting foreign ports while only speaking english and bad spanish Strangely despite these reports, as a polite US citizen, I've never had problems with the French. The worst experience, and that very mild was when I asked how to find some place from a German carpenter in Germany, and was...

I see that you have been very much at sea, since to be a sea is to spell "see" with an A. I also see that what you have posted is text. I hope you are well and enjoying the sea.

Red hook has the Marina's and they are very pleasant. It'll be tough getting a slip though, except during hurricane season. St john's has very limited options. Nothing permanent that I could see. The "harbor" gets very full at night. Bcarli has better info than I, but I spent a very nice month...

Suppose you are traveling down a river, like the Mississippi, its late and you want to stop for the night, just before sunset you happen upon an inlet that's deep enough to anchor in but shoals quickly. How does one anchor so that when a large, fast moving tow comes by you don't end up aground...

Houston Boat show Review Houston's Boat show is only slightly better than Austin's and doesn't compare to the San Diego or Seattle Boat shows for selection. I went to look at Trawlers capable of doing the Loop. I was some what disappointed, but I did discover the parameters that are...

High speed live aboard trawler, cost 15M on sale for 180K http://www.gizmag.com/lockheed-martin-sea-slice-swathboat Looks like a deal to me, just wonder about fuel consumption, there is plenty of room top sides.

Clear Lake depth There are spots where its shallower than three feet as that's my draft and I went aground somewhere out in the middle. I have a lifting keel, so it was easy to get off for me. There was a sailboat with a deeper draft also stuck out there that day. It might be a common...

Ahoy I want to take the admiral to the Houston boat show to see if and which trailer-able trawler would be acceptable. Is there likely to be any there? I looked at the floor plan and nothing jumped out at me. I know there'll be fishing trawlers, maybe that will be sufficient. Houston is...

There was a homeless man I knew in Antigua who built a boat out of lumber and milk bottles. It was sturdy enough that he was able to take tourists out fishing around the island on it. Unfortunately he didn't secure it well before a hurricane blew through, so when I knew him he was back living on...

Maintenance is key. I was once on a old wooden boat that grossed about 5 tons or more. The diesel was giving us problems that day. We went out, sailed a race. On returning the captain gunned the motor to bring us into the slip, planning to throw her into reverse to stop her. When he did the...

While I was in the navy, I bought one of these. It was great but being young and impetuous I was rolling down a long hill and failed to stop. I ran into a truck who was obeying the law and broke the handle bars, after that it was pretty useless as I tried various methods to fix short of buying...

Be careful of the french side in the lagoon, it runs shallow over there. I ran aground three times while waiting for the bridge to open. I was in a sailboat that drew 5 feet though :)

I'm a sailor. My wife is not. In another thread I went over this issue. We went to an RV show this weekend. She likes the trailer idea, if I promise to not be constantly camping, but to come back to the house from time to time. So I was wondering if anyone out there has both a trawler and...

There just happens to be an Albin 25 for sail near me :) We went camping in one of these , we had fun. Frank, we'll see if she'll do what she says.

We didn't take that vow, since we wrote our own vows, which I have forgotten. I'm sticking with her as I am a romantic. I need her and she seems to want me around.:blush:

Well actually another option is to buy a camper and do the Good sam club type camping. I was pleasantly surprised last year, when I rented a camper. The wife, myself and the two dogs took a little weekend trip and She had a lot of fun. I took her shopping at some thrift stores, her favorite...

I'm sure the wife would like their looks, but the 11.5 foot beam would require me to get a load permit ($210.00 in Texas cheaper than marina rent, but daunting all the same) whenever I move it from the house to the water, not to mention the height would mean I couldn't drive under any bridges...