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So, you slept better the second night. Excellent. Dos mas margaritas, por favor!:socool: We're into year 4 with the old Uni. The wife snores. The cat snores. I snore, or so I'm told. Our home moorage is close to a freeway. We wear ear plugs! Only at the dock! When we're on the hook...

If you're trying to remove rust stains, try a Davis product called FSR - Fiberglass Stain Remover. Its active ingredient is oxalic acid, which is pretty mild. FSR is a blue gel that adheres pretty well to vertical surfaces. Several applications may be needed, since it's intentionally not very...

A couple of areas that are hard to diagnose are foredecks and side decks, since it's so hard to inspect them from the inside, because of linings, tanks, etc. A lot of the far east trawlers with aft cabins didn't have sufficient structure back aft to hold up the house over the aft cabin, and the...

I've spoken at several of them, on safety issues and on the refurb of our old Uniflite. As mentioned, it can get expensive if you go to many seminars. My wife took the women-only twin-screw handling class during the Trawlerfest University that's held a few days before the show, and she had a...

That looks like a very capable boat, with sweet lines, and she looks well kept. It would be a shame to see her damaged when she falls off that awful blocking of oil barrels and cinder blocks. That hull would be expensive to repair! Just sayin'-if the boatyard won't provide proper jackstands...

I think I found it, listed as an '84, on Lake Texoma. Are you in McKinney, TX? This 35 has the full-beam aft cabin, nice and roomy cabin, bigger than the 34. With twin engines and a generator, this boat will have a crowded engine room, which can affect maintenance. $69,500 is close to the...

FYI, CHB is a brand from Chung Hwa, one of many builders in Taiwan in the 80's. No better, no worse than most of the other trawlers from Taiwan. By the mid-80's they were starting to figure things out. A twin-engine 35 is rather unusual, and the Yanmars may be original. They are much smaller...

Why not drive it home up the ICW?

Visit the Ballard Locks! During the summer, there's always activity there. You'll see trawlers - and everything else! It's especially entertaining on weekends, and around Seafair and the hydro races on Lake Washington. Plus, the locks have beautiful gardens, a fish ladder, etc. They are one...

Hmmm. If you can't sell it to a customer, you can always sell it to your insurance underwriter...:ermm:

...If the councils had some eggs??? I assume you meant "cojones" ...:socool:

Some pix can be deceiving, but it works both ways - often a nice-looking boat is done no justice at all by the lousy photos. I read scores of Yachtworld listings every week in my work, and it surprises me how poorly presented a lot of boats are. Dressing up or hiding problems is one thing, but...

When you get back to Seattle and get back on that Guzzi, ride on out to Enumclaw on the first Saturday of the month for the local Guzzi club breakfast! 9AM, rain or shine, at the Krain Corner Cafe, 39929 264th Ave Se, Enumclaw, WA 98022 - that's SR189 north of town. See you there, maybe...and...

Yeah, I still ride, but not as much as I used to, since I got married and bought a boat! :socool: Nice to see a fellow Guzzista here! I ride a Griso 1100, and also have a Honda ST1300. I'm also an ex-sailor, lived aboard and cruised a 34ft Victoria, built in the UK, for 19 years until my...

Yes, we discovered that after we named her. Another namesake is the fictional HMS Surprise, under Capt. Jack Awbrey's command in the Patrick O'Brian stories. My wife Heather and I named her because of our discovery of each other late in life, and our discovery of such a well-equipped boat for...

Just signed up, this looks like a pretty active forum! I'm an old forum user (motorcycles, cars) and a soon-to-be retired member of the yacht business (repairer, installer, surveyor) - been at it 30 years. It wasn't my chosen field, but I ended up there because of my seemingly incurable...

Spoken like a true Canadian! :socool: I love Robertson square drive too - the bits are slightly tapered, so the fastener stays put on the bit and you can shoot 'em in one-handed! The installer's friend - Robertson screws were all I used in my days as a marine electrician.

For the bilges and other grungy spaces: Stanley 3.5 gallon. Thirty bucks at Costco. I didn't install the cheesy plastic wheeled base. Stainless steel, about the diameter of a 5 gallon round bucket, easy to stow, relatively quiet. Did I mention it really, really sucks?:whistling: And for...

Kevin, you're right, flat sections aft do define a planing hull. It doesn't necessarily follow, however, that because planing hulls have flat sections aft, that all boats with flat sections aft are planing hulls. My point is that a boat designed for efficient use at displacement hull speed...

Good thread, big subject I'm new to this forum and ran across this thread, last post back in July. Thought I'd give it a bump and see if Danno had any luck finding the perfect liveaboard! I spent a decade living aboard a 34ft sailboat in my younger (single) years, and now my wife and I live...

So, you're insisting that it's a planing hull because it has flat sections aft? Do you define a displacement hull as having a round underbody like your Willard? (nice boat, by the way) Part of the function of the flat sections aft on the CC37 is to keep the boat level at hull speed. The aft...

Just because it's got a hard chine doesn't mean it's a planing hull. I imagine you could get it to plane if you shoved enough horsepower in the basement, but that doesn't make it a planing hull. It was extensively tank-tested at UBC prior to construction. It was the most highly engineered...

Had to join the forum to chime in on this one! The broker who has that Coastal Cruiser listed in BC is doing his client a disservice by listing it as a 44. Refugio, no offense my friend, but Uniflite didn't build a 44. That listing is a 37, with the optional bowsprit. Its length overall is...