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I finished my rebuild and launched in mid June. Since then, the boat has been back in the shop for 3 weeks and I just dropped it off again. No telling how long it will be there this time. It has a 90 E-TEC on it with I-Command gauges. There is a 3A fuse on the power feed to the network...

But Pat's wine chiller is so cold he can't swim in it!!! Here in the Northeast, we can't chill the wine as well as Pat except in winter but we can swim now and then.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QFRSjWVTmY Red Green run out of duct tape.

My boat lives on a trailer. I slide a 6 foot length of plastic tubing over the spout that fills the sink (you want a tight fit) and toss the other end out the window. Step on the foot pedal a few times and it starts a nice siphon effect and the tank empties itself. If you are in the water...

Actually, as I noted, I was only kidding about the C vs Sea rule. However, Sea Wolf is not a good example regarding the rule. Ever see the picture of him with the 3 shotgun shells in his mouth and his shotgun? He gets to name his boat whatever he wants!!!!!!!!!! The picture surfaces here from...

Brad & Sheila -- Welcome aboard. As a relative newcomer myself, I have found a ton of useful information on the site. However, I just wanted to warn you before you make a newbie mistake that nothing that starts with "sea" is allowed. If the name might start with sea, it must be converted to...

Thanks. 1 S, 1 XL in Deep Royal Blue; 1 XL in Deep Navy and 1 XL in gray.

Toyman -- That ought to get the dinghy on top but also, it would put the C-Dory on top of itself! I am one of the ones with a Grahauer davit and love it. I mount it in the aft starboard corner of the cockpit for putting a 6hp Merc 4 stroke on the dinghy without dropping it overboard and on...

While the Rosborough RF-246 and the Seaway 25 look similar, they are most definitely not all that similar when you start to analyze them. For example, the weight of the Seaway is 3910 lbs and the RF-246 is 5400 lbs. The Seaway max HP is 175 and the max on the RF-246 is 300hp. Those are huge...

For an ATB or "articulated tug barge" to work, there is a set of hydraulically driven pins (a term that belies the heft of them at 28,000 lbs each) that serve to couple the tug and barge. They have to be adjustable vertically to allow for the loaded and unloaded drafts of the barge and they...

Don't feel bad Casey. All of us with ICOMs have had the same problem. My last boat had 2 of them and the problem was on both, That was the clue that let me finally figure it out. My soloution was to get a white paint pen and carefully circle the mic hole as a reminder but every one in a...

Roger -- That boat that you show with a suspended cabin is not really a wave piercer. The hulls actually undulate but don't really pierce. I actually saw that boat cruising around the southern tip of Manhattan in 2008. It was the oddest sight imaginable. There is a web site for it that was...

Count me in in the Byrdman Support Group. We all do it sooner or later and some are more spectacular than others. Worst I did was bringing a 32 foot Nordic Tug into a narrow, tide swept channel with about 3 kt of incoming current. Missjudged and before I knew it, I was swept pretty far onto a...

Dixoncider is correct. It is the aspect ratio that I find most objectionable although there are other features where I strongly prefer the Furuno units. The aspect ratio is optimized for multi-function use and I tend to use my electronic devices largely for single purpose. It is a combination...

Marc -- The 21 footer you show is the Coastal Hardtop which to my eye looks ugly. My friends got the 21 Seafarer which is the smaller version of the boat whose picture you posted earlier. The lines are much more pleasing that the 21 Coastal Hardtop. The boat is a nice boat but my CD-22 has...

A couple of comments about Seaway Boats. First, the picture that got posted by Wefings is the Seaway 24 Offshore not the Coastal Cruiser. The Coastal Cruiser looks a good bit more like the Rosborough RF-246 with a full cabin and without side curtains. Scotia Mist is indeed an RF-246, not a...

Bill -- Actually, that boat doesn't have registration numbers most likely because it is a federally documented boat. With Federal documentation, federal regulations prevent you from having state numbers on the boat. Boat can be either state registered or Federally documented. States don't...

Brent -- I have not compared the numbers but visually, it appears that Furuno has a higher screen resolution. Jim

Got asked by PM what the issue is. There are a variety of issues for me but the biggest is the screen shape. The useable area of a C90W measured with a tape is 7 3/4" x 4 3/8" compared to 8.4" x 6.12" for a Furuno 1834. What this means is that the height of the screen on the Raymarine is...

I bought a chartplotter/radar from Defender and had it professionally installed. The boat has not even launched yet (won't launch til the Spring due to work commitments) but I have played with it enough to know that I really made a huge mistake in getting it. The unit is a Raymarine C90W with...