Boat Forum / Cruising

Do you suppose that now that the Somali pirates have found big,
expensive ships and cargoes so easy to pick off that they can no longer
be bothered with dinky little private yachts?

http://www.lavac.com/
I found the website of the really great marine head installed on a
racing trimaran that's visiting Charleston this week.  After struggling
with those cheap plastic crappers from Waste Marine all clogging and

http://www.islandfreepress.org/2008Archives/11.16.2008-50-footSailboatIsStranded
InTheAvonSurf.html
Alan
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The last column in the current issue of PC magazine is an obituary for
Usenet.   This group, and others like it, are now like CB radio in the early
1980's.  There are still a few die hards out there talking but the airwaves
are gradually going quiet.

Still working on the escape plan..
What do ya'll think of this one?

16 year old Mike Perham from England is giving Zac a run for the
money.  This kid has some serious hardware, sailing a Finot Conq Open
50.
http://www.totallymoney.com/sailmike/

I just noticed this line in the article about the boat stuck on the Hattaras
beach:
"First, the Coast Guard must receive and approve a salvage plan from Clark
before he can proceed with any efforts."

I have a bunch of folding mast steps - the kind made from 2 cast alum
pieces. I took them off the mast before I repainted it with LP - now
I'd like to clean them up and put them back. They're uncoated alum so
have a white powdery dusty feel to them now. What to do with them ??

I need to make a hatch frame that involves some complex curved rabbets and
am thinking of using Star Board so as not to wind up with more wood trim
that needs re-finishing.
How easily does Star Board work with a chisel, planes, and similar hand

The sediment bowl on the Shelco filter I put in for my fuel polishing (or
Pre-filtering, whatever you want to call it) system doesn't drain
completely.  I took it out of the boat today, poured off the fuel (Not a
drop of water BTW), and scraped out the stuff in the bottom:

On Nov 19, 10:55 am, "Wilbur Hubbard" <wilburhubb...@thefarm.invalid>
wrote:

Check out the Skippy's SPOT and zoom way in on his anchored location. You
will see that Flying Pig flew right over the causeway and Watson Island
itself. Amazing but true!  That Skippy. What a guy!
Wilbur Hubbard

any opinions on these boats

Flying Pig will depart St. Simons Island, GA Frederica Bridge area
approximately noon Sunday November 16 for Miami Yacht Club basin.
Course will be approximately 62 degrees to the Cape Canaveral area,
after which we will stick close to the coast to avoid the Gulf Stream.

Skippy's SPOT stopped giving positions a couple hours ago.  Last known
position between Vero Beach and Ft. Pierce about 10 miles offshore.
Wilbur Hubbard