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oosik. It's an Alaskan thing.* Makes you strong like bull.
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skipperdude wrote:
oosik. It's an Alaskan thing.
Well, now I'm re-energized!* Nothing like a little real world experience to clarify things.BaltimoreLurker wrote:hollywood8118 wrote:We had a WP4000 on our GB36 years ago....it worked just fine. On a sail boat the system needs more power as is needs to be able to compensate for larger fluctuating* loads due to the wind/swell action. You just have to put up with the thing mounted at the helm.
I'm on the hunt now.* I don't need any slick features, just something to maintain a heading for a while.* Maybe the equivalent of one step above lashing the tiller on a sailboat.FF wrote:
Should work just fine , there is another AP maker , just AP , wont talk to your NEMA radar or windshield wipers , or depth sounder that has a great rep.
Will think of the name , eventually.
If you want connectivity , one of the "big" names will be needed .
FF
Al:ARoss wrote:Lurker, here are a couple of pics of the installation of my wheel pilot. When not in use, the control head can be unclipped and stowed in the forward laz. under the bridge.* I'm not sure of the vintage, but... it works.
These improvements have been made over the almost 12 years we've owned the boat.* Some, like the stove and first horizontal aluminum propane bottle, were made within a week or two of acquiring the boat.* The others have been made as they became necessary.* For example, we installed a new Bruce anchor the day after we got the boat but it took us some eight years of bad experiences with it before we finally said enough's enough and went in search of a replacement.Fotoman wrote:
It could be fun to list the 5 most useful improvements you did on your boat.
Bruce stopped making their small recreational boating anchors several years ago.* I was told by Bob Hale (who used to be the Bruce rep in the PNW) that Bruce had signed some sort of deal to have their small anchors made under license by an Italian company but to date I don't believe that production has started (if it ever will).Keith wrote:
Fotoman: There's a good market for used REAL Bruce anchors. I sold mine very quickly on one of the lists... think it was T&T.
ok now wait a minute.... your telling me I dont need to get a cramp in my neck and a bad case of verdigo watching the dim, rotating green screen of the old radar spin around????Who is still using the old monochrome GPS and depth sounders, or the old style radar one had to look down a horn-like enclosure to see the display and to exclude ambient light, because the scope was so dim? Sure - there will be someone with a loyalty and love affair who is......but most will have moved on to better things. Why? Because they just work better, suddenly no good - just not as good maybe.
ME!GonzoF1 wrote:
Peter B wrote:
Who is still using the old monochrome GPS and depth sounders
I actually don't agree with this.* If it were true, the Fortress would not work.* Yet it is consistently one of the highest rated anchors in all sorts of tests from the US Navy's to magazine-sponsored in terms of holding power.* Granted, its Danforth design limits its ability to set in a wide variety of bottoms, but for those bottoms for which it is most suited--- sand, mud--- it generally outperforms all other anchors despite it's being light enough to carry in one hand.sunchaser wrote:
Weight !! Successful boat anchors*love mass. The common notion back to Phoenician times is the heavier the better, no matter what kind.