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Every time I anchor I want a couple of shots.

When Paul Simon originally wrote the song, it said “Going home,” but at some point he substituted the word Kodachrome, which fit nicely. Ektachrome wouldn’t have worked at all.

But Paul Simon said Kodachrome makes you think all the world’s a sunny day. I guess a song about Ektachrome wouldn’t have sounded as good.

I don’t know about anywhere else, but most of the liveaboards in Juneau are people whose boats never leave the dock, and are barely maintained if at all. They’re not people who love boating, it’s just cheap housing. The boat might have surveyed fine when they bought it, but I wouldn’t want to...

Maybe I’m missing something, but it doesn’t look there are any wires connected to the buzzer. It looks like it was disconnected long ago, probably after it burned out.

There is a lengthy thread on this topic from a while back, I’d suggest reading through it: Old thread

I’m also wondering what “Coastal coverage” means. Also, the terms of service say that the Roam plan provides “Unlimited or 50 GB of data.” But I couldn’t find an explanation of which it is, and what the “or” means. I’ve always had unlimited data on my Roam plan, and I’d like to be sure it’s...

One thing I would mention is that your dehumidifiers have to be the kind that actually remove moisture - water - from the air, and the water has to go somewhere where it will not re-evaporate into the air. The small round dehumidifiers are just a heater and a fan, so they reduce the relative...

12 in one direction, 4 in the other. 12-4=8. Divided by 2 equals 4, which is the current.

Not to quibble, but wouldn’t it be half the difference?

Does anyone have experience with whether the current predictions are any more reliable than, say, Navionics? If are they are based on the same data, they’ll be equally unreliable.

Not sure about 5 knots, but I’ve certainly had times when I was in an unexpected adverse current, and I was puzzled by an unusually slow GPS speed. Currents are unpredictable, and current charts on navigational apps like Navionics aren’t reliable. One thing that I have found helpful is a speed...

Shouldn’t there be some kind of regulation banning the use of shipping containers to transport zombies? Who do I contact about this?

They supposedly struck something under the surface. It looks like it was a pretty hard impact, given the debris in the video, but it looks like pretty deep water in the video, so a rock seems unlikely. I wonder if it could have been a whale strike.

FYI: Bayesian stability report

There’s a good summary of the different Defever models on the Defever Cruisers website (www.defevercruisers.com). The first one (flybridge back) is usually referred to as a CTF, the second (flybridge forward) as a Sen Koh, which are the shipyards in Taiwan. More recent Defevers were made by...

They must be getting pretty desperate for storage after 10 years. 😂😂

The SeaLift might be a problem if you have stabilizers.

The mast was 246 feet long. At a 73 degree list, the tip of the mast would be 72 feet above the base. Still plenty of windage at that angle. Even with no windage, if 73 degrees is the point of negative stability (if that is the right term), that is the point at which the boat would roll over...

The Substack article said it had positive stability to 73 degrees. There’s still some windage even at 73 degrees, meaning in a hurricane force wind the point of no return is going to come before it reaches 73 degrees. If a door or window blew open, it might start rapidly taking on water well...

I’m not going to try to paraphrase this but this is an interesting discussion of this by some folks who know about vessel design (I hope this link works), suggesting that the Bayesian had stability issues: Substack discussion

Saw a story this morning (Yacht sunk by tornado) that a 56 meter sailboat carrying “Britain’s Bill Gates” sunk at anchor in a storm near Palermo.

As Mark Twain said, all generalizations are false, including this one.

If you’re looking at less than $10K I’d just use cash. Meet at the bank, have them pull out the cash on the spot and sign the papers there.

When I sold my last boat we met up at the bank with all the paperwork. Money was a combination of cash and a wire transfer. When the bank confirmed receipt of funds we signed all the paperwork. But an escrow/title agent is the cleanest way to do it. Whether that’s worth the money depends on how...