Boat Forum / Sailing / March 2007

Are you anywhere near Hingham?  I'll be there Monday.
Scotty

The average idiot buys a boat for say 100K and finances it for ten
years. He fits it out and keeps it in a slip. The fitting out costs 20K,
the slip costs 5K per year, the insurance costs 1K a year. Haulout for
bottom paint 1K a year. Fuel 1/2K a year.

Looked like a giant pile of tires burning, the smoke was so black and
thick.
Five boats catch fire at South Shore Harbour
By Sara McDonald

My boat was craned back in today. Light winds and warm sunshine here in
Norway. All my friends in Uk think we live in ice and snow for most of the
year.
Tomorrow- big cleanup of land dirt, then the sails go back on and we shall

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr
the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat
ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll
raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the ...

http://www.wpbf.com/news/11419447/detail.html
Big Boom huh?
Joe

President Bush, Commander in Chief of the United States Marines Corps,
should order a shoot down of the Iranian president's plane over the
ocean. Send up a few F-18's from a carrier group and splash the sand
monkey. Ollie North, another great Marine, wanted to do it to Arafat,

I have to ride the bus, see; because my car was stolen and although
I've been given a new one I need a little more time to insure it.
So I've just visited my friends in Fernwood, eh?
And they are quite the psychedelic household. Jimi Fritz is the

I've been thinking about what a rigger told me recently about cotter
pins. He made an interesting suggestion to replace the accessible
cotter pins (ones that don't sit right up against the turnbuckle faces
for example) with SS screws and nylon locknuts.

My shore power is basically a line into cockpit and a domestic two pin
socket. I would like to improve this.  Not being an electrician I
would like advice. I wanted a battery charger to connect when I
plugged in mains to ensure my batteries where topped up. I saw on a

Anybody out there have a marine/ham radio? Any recommendations on
equipment and installation? We are preparing to install one on the
tugboat and have gotten a lot of conflicting advice. We want a radio
that will allow us to communicate on both ham and marine SSB

http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn11432&feedId=online-news_rss20
I thought the global warming models accounted for all of this.
Lloyd

My uncle has recently started to check his boat after it was laid up
all winter. Unfortunately, there seems to be a problem with the
Eberspacher heater and I wonder if anybody on this group can offer
advice...