Boat Forum / Cruising / July 2008

Might be bad timing coming out with a "powersailer" just as fuel costs
reach all-time highs.  Looks like a belated stab at cutting into the
Mac26 market.
http://www.sailmag.com/boatreviews/hunter_marine_and_theedge/

Being relatively new to motor boating I intend to take some boat
handling training but wonder whether I'm being realistic & responible
enough intending to be able to handle a 25 ft motor vessel single
handed as far as mooring, etc is concerned.

Constant bearing decreasing range:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vLErvNBf1Y

are there systems on the market, that would allow crusing sailors to
hear
a alarm for approaching squalls, heavy weather, and traffic...say
within a

From our recent cruise to the Bahamas:
http://share.shutterfly.com/view/flashslideshow.jsp?sid=0AaOGTlo0Zt2L6w&a=67b0de
21b344e26fa4dd
or
http://tinyurl.com/5wnqsw

Larry,
I am in the process of replacing the anchor windlass power relay. It
had a "starter relay" installed and after 5 years I am replacing it
with a similar relay but am wondering whether putting a diode across

http://www.cargolaw.com/images/disaster2008.NCL.Dream17.jpg
The Original Fred

Good Morning Larry,
I seem to vaguely recall a far distant posting from you making
reference to some sort of motorised scooter that you use for zooming
down the dock

I'm so upset! You see that horrible thing, Wilfrid Hereford is
masquerading as me, Wilbur Hubbard.
It all started one night at the Leather and Lashes Bar and Grill where
some of us "Girls" meet. You see Wilfrid is simply the most awful

Home Depot SCAM -
         Be Careful - A 'heads up' for those men who may be regular Home
 Depot customers. Over the last 2 months I became a victim of a clever
 scam while out shopping. Simply going out to get supplies has turned

So what is this banjo minstrel place all about???
Bob
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.banjo.minstrel/browse_thread/thread/07af4400c
5040ef7?hl=en#
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.banjo.minstrel/topics?hl=en

Larry,
This story about the mythology behind the Cuban missile crisis is from
the BBC news web page.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7492000/7492678.stm

Happy 4th of July. For the first time in almost 20 years, I will not
be on the Charles River in Boston to see the fireworks. My boat is in
the shop. Here is what happened. Several weeks ago, while I was
putting around the harbor, the engine started sucking in salt water. I