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Raymarine or Simrad We are on our second Simrad electronics package. On our old-but-new-to-us boat, we replaced obsolete and non-functioning electronics with Simrad in summer of 2016, keeping only the perfectly good Standard Horizon VHF-DSC radio, adding: NSS09 Evo2 MFD-chartplotter, AIS...

An earlier post on this thread left the impression that China had if not a lock, then perhaps dominance over the mining and processing of lithium for storage batteries. That is certainly not true today. There is a U.S. company, Albemarle, with a strong market share of lithium, whose mines are...

As a sidebar, another pumped storage hydroelectric project is TVA's Raccoon Mountain Project, built in 1978: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raccoon_Mountain_Pumped-Storage_Plant

Recreational boating & the Green Movement Background: I'm pushing 70, trained as an engineer, including in early environmental science. Like many engineers, I'm somewhat obsessed by increasing efficiency of all we do in life, and not just for the benefit of the environment, but also for a...

A Winter Delivery on the Rivers In early February 2018, we docked at Palafox Marina in Pensacola. A cold front that night pushed temps down to 9F, the same night that that it got down to 3F back in Nashville. The next morning someone was going down the docks offering to deliver firewood...

You might reach out to George McNeir in Wilmington, NC. I don't have his contact info, but you may be able to find him using Google or social media. George has built a fully electric cruising boat, and is pretty up on technologies, costs, and such. At the very least, he'd be a good one to...

Previous boat was named "Hypnautic" because my wife was a hypnotist. She retired from that pursuit shortly after we sold the boat. Our new boat is named "Here & Now", because that's where we are. Her trailer is "Now & Then"; her future dinghy is likely to be named "Here & There".

We cruised aboard our '87 Chris 410 for several years, and found what worked for us in that galley. Other boaters were envious of the apartment size fridge-freezer and the storage pantry underneath the fridge and galley sole. The sink was deep enough to wash dishes without getting everything...

We recently sold our '87 Chris 410, which by then was called the Constellation and not the Commander, yet was essentially the same boat. When the original 454s began to go south, we looked at repowering with diesels. Our mechanic reminded us of all the other stuff that would be involved, from...

Willy, you may have seen the former WWII US Navy subchaser SC 1068, transferred to the USCG and later purchased by Kent Halverson, named Air Snipe, and used as a family yacht. I’m not sure of her current ownership or disposition; I saw her north of Ketchikan in August 2001.

Cargile wanted to design a family weekend cruiser that could be towed behind a full-size station wagon or sedan of the day. It was narrow enough that it didn’t need a wide load permit. It was built in 28’ and 30’ lengths.

Allen Cargile, the boat’s builder had a limited marketing budget, and decided to take the boat from New York to Paris, in hopes the publicity would help him sell lots of boats. It might have worked if he hadn’t sailed up the Seine on the day that Elvis died, and his story was ignored by the...

Instead of buying pre-made dock lines, buy a 600' spool of good quality 3-strand nylon rope (I bought New England Rope from Jamestown Supply), and splice your own. you can make your loops any size you want, and your lines any length you may need. There are several good Youtube videos on...

In August 1977, Allen Cargile completed his New York to Paris voyage in a cruiser of his own design and manufacture, the Cargile Cutter. The Cutter was sold with single or twin Chrysler outdrives, but for this boat, the power was a single Volvo-Penta outdrive. Most of the interior furniture...