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Does anyone have an updated status of the Demopolis AL lock on the Tenn Tom? Thanks

The melamine panels surrounding my aft upper deck have become quite "chalky". They are an off white flat finish with royal blue horizontal paint stripes. The paint stripes are still in good shape. I tried a little compound in one spot on the back side of a panel but it turned the surface...

That looks like it EXACTLY.....A thread cutting machine screw..Thank you RT Firefly

It is not made like the self drilling screws. It's as if someone stuck the starting end to a grinding wheel and made a flat spot. Also, the thread is fine, unlike sheet metal screws which have a coarse thread. Machine screws would not thread into the threaded holes in my stainless steel...

Does anyone know what you call the stainless steel screws that (in my case) hold my melamine skirts to the railing on my upper back deck of my Bluewater Coastal Cruiser. They are slotted pan head screws with a fine #10 thread but they also have a cutting edge on the business end to help get the...

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My 50’ Bluewater engines are midship. Props and shafts are in tunnels. 2’ draft. No kidding.

I’ll check with the Cedar Shore folks and see if one of those trucks will give me a lift. Thanks

PierreR. No guessing here..took the boat out in the river, put it in neutral and drifted between the bridges at 7 mph on the gps in front of Memphis. I’ve been boating the lower Ms for about 50 years. Been up river to Cairo and down to New Orleans several times. GPS doesn’t lie. Average current...

Current upriver in the Ms is 5-7mph. 3-4 in the Ohio. In high water faster in some places. My most economical cruise speed is 10mph (1 gal/mile on still water). That immediately becomes 2gal/mile upriver on the Ms and doubles my fuel burn. But the main problem is there is NO FUEL (gasoline)...

I have 2 boat moving carrier bids of $5,500 to back their lowboy (with bunks) into the water and do the trip. That doesn't mean that it's the safest way to transport a 51' boat. But the fuel cost alone for the trip down the Ms and back up the Tenn Tom is over 10k. Can't place a price on the...

The closest marina to me with a travel lift is Little Rock AR. 130 miles down the Ms and another 130 mi back up the Arkansas river. I've considered that, but I have several quotes for a "wet" load in Memphis. We have an excellent very large and low angle ramp for the wet load. The trip is only...

In perusing this forum I have found several threads concerning overland transport. Most photos I've seen of a loaded yacht on a lowboy trailer are loaded stern first. I was wondering why this was so. I am planning to have my Bluewater trucked from Memphis to the Tn river and (unfortunately) have...

Anyone fueled going south on the mighty MS across the river at Vidalia LA by Kaiser Petroleum? You tie off on a barge at Vidalia Dock and Kaiser brings you fuel on a truck. Did it 10 years ago but planning another trip south this summer. The only known 2 fuel stops on the lower MS are Memphis...