Boat Forum / Cruising / July 2008

Last Thursday night, June 26th, Sen. Bill Nelson on the floor of the U.S.
Senate requested "unanimous consent" on S. 2766, the Clean Boating Act of
2008 (aka, EPA Permit Relief Bill) and it was about to pass, thus sparing 17
million Americans from the onerous, new EPA Regs when ...

Bruce in Bangkok tried to justify his failure at circumnavigating by writing
the following load of self-serving crap:
"As I once told you, "I'm half way round the world and you are sittingin a
Florida swamp", so who's the sailor. Peter is  half way round the world, and

Science has proven liberals are easily brainwashed and are wired not to
follow rules or societal decorum:
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-politics10sep10,0,5982337.story

On the evening of 1 July 2008 a male Caucasian was arrested in a
public toilet faculty by Detective James Washington Carver, of the
Dade County Sheriff's Department, for offering to perform a lewd act
in return for a payment of money.

Cruising is driving me to the poor house.
I typically put on 250 hours a years at 4 gph which puts fuel at about
$6,000.
The dockspace is costing me $5,000 a year.

Strangeness... I replaced my old bronze check valve off my main bilge pump
with a new bronze one. Basically identical to the old. It's only been a
short time and it seems to be jamming in the closed position, so that when
the automatic kicks in, the pump runs without ejecting ...

I have been looking for a 30 AMP circuit breaker to add to my rebuild
of switch panel on Herodotus.
I had often wondered if two 15 AMP ones in parallel would work and be
equivalent to a single 30 AMP one but thought "No, thats dumb - too

I can't complain about mine today.  I just got back from a short cruise, two
overnights, up to Boothbay where I anchored in the exact spot as I did on
the first night of my first cruise in Maine.  Thought about all the water
over that dam in the last four decades. Returned via ...

http://www.zacsunderland.com/blog/2008_07_01_archive.html
Young Zac's only been at his attempted circumnavigation for less than two
weeks and he's already run out of fuel for his cook stove. And, he's
averaged about 50 miles per day. At this rate he'll be 25 before he goes all

International Marine P15 Premium Package as listed on the WWP official
website.  Also includes the High Performance Cruising Sails upgrade
(North Sail) and custom Sky Blue hull.
www.westwightpotter.com/potter-15/premium.htm

Sheesh.  It's raining so hard here I don't even want to go down to the boat
to see if the leak around the lazarette hatch hinges onto the autopilot
keypad is fixed.  So, I decided to try the alternate newsgroup readers
sooner than I though I would get to them.  Sorry for the ...

This contains some quite in depth information on charging lead acid
batteries. Never heard of the charger though.
http://www.batterytender.com/battery_basics.php
Peter

Larry,
This story is right up your alley.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/24/opinion/main4205088.shtml
A whole new source of fuel!

I have been sailing on the River Medway in Kent and came across two
paper factories discharging huge quanitites of effluent into the tidal
part of the Medway. I thought we had stopped doing this to our rivers
the clip of the pipes is on you tube - last three minutes is about the