Boat Forum / Cruising / September 2006

Over on alt.binaries.e-book.technical is a repost of quite an extensive
emergency medical library you should store on your boat laptop you might
find useful.
Look down the list posted at 0400 this morning for subject field that

This will only be posted briefly because it was written by a lawyer
James A. Quinby and I'm sensitive to copyright.  It contains such an
important safety message for those of use who deal with commercial
traffic in low visibility and is such a good laugh that I've got to

Actually I would like one in London by the River Thames but don't think
there's one for sale. I used to visit a friend with a house by the Thames
in Weybridge but don't know if I can sail a 40' catamaran that far.
Maybe a house on the Isle of Wight would be nice if it's not too dear ...

Recently purchased a 20 year old steel sloop. With it came a bunch of stuff
that the previous (second) owner had never used, indeed was blissfully
unaware of the intended purpose for most of it. As the months have gone by
I've managed to identify virtually everything but one item ...

Yesterday I was looking and thinking ........ maybe I should do some
painting of my deck.  Fiberglass.
Anyway,, last spring I used some one part paint I got at West.  It was the
best stuff;  Brightside 1-Part Polyurethane Enamel

I viewed a 1983 Vancouver 32 recently that had osmotic blistering
covering about 4 feet of the topsides below the teak cap rail on both
port & starboard aft quarters.  There are no blisters or signs of
osmosis below the waterline.

For some reason I do not receive any items from two sites ( alt. Auto bmw
and alt. auto volvo ), Anyone know what may have happened?

Think yours is locked?  Go over to alt.binaries.movies.divx and download
"Lockpicking for the New Millenium"
and see how easy it is to open the front door to that $1.2M mansion with
the simplest of tools, even ones you can easily make with a file.....(c;

Hi Sailors,
I just had my decks emroned with a sand mix for no-skid areas and the
boat look great, however when a worker drills metal somewhere the tiny
shavings blow onto the decks and ultimatly become these hard to clean

The following episode might be of interest to fellow boaters cruising the
San Juans and Canadian Gulf Islands....
We were returning from Bedwell Harbour on the Canadian side of the boundary
to our designated port of entry for U.S. customs at Roche Harbor - the

I have a Westerbeke 4-107 in my new (to me) boat. Upon checking the
pencil zinc on the heat exchanger, I found that it was not screwed into
the cap, although I could see zinc sitting in the orifice. Either it
was coroded away in the cap, or was not screwed into the cap properly.

Lots of plans for my boat .. paint, brightwork, etc..  Since it is fall ,,
should I wait till spring?
Trying to figure out whether to jump on projects or let em wait.

Just one of those questions that you suddenly wonder why you never
wondered about before:
How do all those radar's out there avoid interfering with each other?
Are they all on slightly different frequencies (that seems like a lot

Has anybody compared The CAPN by Nautical Technologies and Nobeltec's VNS
version 8 or 9? Any recommendations? Has anybody tested both Electronic
Charting systems?

Some of you will remember that we have owned two
boats for over six years now.  When we bought our
Catalina 27 in 2000, we did not want to part ways
with our Maxum 21 powerboat, so we kept it.