Boat Forum / Cruising / November 2004

This is a serious question even if it is a little unusual, if you are
a liveaboard how do you get post or mail? Do you have a PO box, or
something? If your moving constantly how do people send you things? or
don't they? Is it a life free from junk mail????

Version 2.1 of APRSPoint is available. It integrates Microsoft
MapPoint seamlessly to provide detailed street level support to track
other hams all over the world through either RF link or internet.
Visit http://www.aprspoint.com for latest info and the holiday

Listen to this week's boating radio program featuring a sailing couple who keep
their 47 foot sailboat in Turkey for the winter. This past summer, they sailed
to 7 countries (Northern and Southern Cypress, Lybia, Syria, Israel, Jordan,
and Egypt) in 6 weeks. You might be surprised ...

Applying anti fouling paint to aluminum bottoms is tedious at best.  All sorts of cleaners, etchers, primers, etc.  Has anyone tried painting on a couple coats of a good exterior latex over the aluminum, to provide an electrolytic insulator, and slapping on the antifouling over ...

My wife and I want to get our bareboat certs, and I was wondering  if anyone
could recommend a good school.
Thank you in advance.
Bob

Any info on this? The 12v single water clear led's are $1.67 and put
out 11000 or 3300 mcd, whatever that is, some measure of how bright
they are. The viewing angle is 30 or 60 degrees. The attraction is
that current draw is almost nothing. I measured .023 amps for a single

anyone monitering this ng while cruising / living on
an ericson 36 or 38...from...say 1985 or newer?
i am interested in getting feedback on the boat
preformance, quality, maint requirements...etc.

I keep reading about GPS for boats and how innacurate it can be.
Why is the same not innacurate in cars?
My car GPS is so accurate it tells me I am on the white line at a
traffic signal stop light or in my driveway.

Gate:
6. A device for controlling the passage of water or gas through a dam or
conduit.
Lock:

I am looking for a home in the USA for a roll of fiberglass ( about 6oz
bi-directional, epoxy and polyester compatible, 1779 yards long X 44" wide ).
I am thinking of various ideas that would be very mutually beneficial but am
open to any other thoughts -- think laterally on this ...

Let's say I bought a five net ton boat to transport paying customers on
the Great Lakes out and back from the same location, not from one
location to another. These would be marketed as daytime or weekend
cruises, not fishing trips, although I could imagine someone might want

11hp, 2 cyl. Runs fine at speed and idles smoothly but it dies when
reversed at low speeds; and when speeding up from an idle it's very
sluggish. What could be wrong?
TIA,

To any celestial navigators still out there:
The recent improvement of the Canada/U.S. exchange rate is persuading
me that the time to buy a sextant is approaching. I plan on world
cruising in a few years and just as I wouldn't have an autopilot

My VHF began displaying some peculiar behavior at the end of the season.
When it's turned on, it seems to work for about a second, and then goes
silent. Don't know whether the problem is in the radio, or someplace in the
electric or antenna connections. I'm reluctant to buy a new ...

They may sink your boat and you'll be food for the fishes !
So better cruise with a submarine !