Boat Forum / Cruising / February 2005

Charm, Elegance & Speed in a new Breed of passagemaker Trawler.  Yes
Speed - no reason lollygagging around when you can extend your crusing
area.
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Noticed  French internet store NavAstro which has fairly good
selection of inexpensive plastic sextants.Something I have been
looking for as I am practising celestial navigation.  And there is
additional benefit of them being within the EU so there will be no

We spent the summer of 2003 cruising the canals of New York, Canada and
Vermont which included the Rideau, Lachine and Richelieu canals in Canada.
Pat Drummond posted our report on that trip on her site at
http://boating.ncf.ca/greatcirclecruise.html  for those not familar with our

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My wife and I will be bringing our new (to us) sailboat back to
Pensacola from Galveston around the end of March.  As we have never
made this trip before (we intend to go ICW) we would be interestd in
hearing from those who have.  Of particular concern is the transit

Help, help, you electronic wizards out there.  We've removed the Loran C from a 20-year-old Lord Nelson Tug we bought recently, but up on the pilothouse is a perfectly good Loran C antenna, with the antenna lead running to the nav station.  Can this antenna be used for anything ...

Thanks to everyone who has offered advice on the Great Lakes and
canals. I've decided though that the boat is coming to Maine on a
truck. Family reunions, graduations, and other commitments make the
schedule very tight and complicated. A heavy rain closing the Erie

We are having a speed launch with volvo penta ad41 engine. The starter
motor was broaken down due to damage to its needle bearing coming in
the drive end of the armature shaft. Our efforts to find a replacement
was failed. there is no part number or any identification on the

I have seen, but now lost the website for such paint.
I'm sure I learned of it on this newsgroup, so perhaps some one can direct
me there again.
Thanks !

not so much a cruising question but does anyone have any experience
with those fans that mix up the water called De-icers. Last summer all
the pilings around my dock got stuck in the ice and came up with tide.
This year the river is already freezing and I just bought a De-icer

If I undertake this trip in my boat, will I be able to plug in a laptop
or get WiFi in an occasional marina or town or will I have to make other
arrangements?
Capt. Jeff

We plan to be coastal cruising in the northeastern USA and Eastern
Canada for 5 or 6 months this year. Last year we were unable to
connect at the Chamber of Commerce in Northeast Harbor where they used
to keep a modem line. The reason was they now have a continuous DSL

I had a program which, I think, was named "See My ENCs" for reading NOAA
Electronic Navigation Charts, but cannot find it, and don't know where I
got it in the first place.
Does anyone have a reference to where this program may be obtained?