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Thank you. And it was such a beautiful day.

No. The tanks are standard. With the smaller engines and speed limits of the European boats, they go forever. Even with my larger Cummins, I can probably go more than 1000 miles on a tank. I do have unused space in the bilge that could be more fuel, but if I were building it now, I'd use it...

The second stack is a 12 kw Northern Lights genset on a Walter keel cooler.

We built in for Florida, so the prop, rudder, keel coolers, etc are protected. For lots of air, the pilothouse windows slide down to open and then there's the back deck, which is the best place if there are no bugs. The V-hull allows some offshore work, which we just did again coming from...

Thanks...and that may end up being a good deal for me !

Thank you. I'll look you up in a few weeks, when we are there. All the best.

Thank you. We'll be back on board for the winter in about three weeks. Stop by and it'll be nice to show it to you and say hi.

I like your Cape Dory too. Nice lines. Well made. Good boat.

Your boat is interesting. Is that custom?

I like building things. I won't ever give up the water (until I get too old). I've always got a boat or two in my head that I'd like to do. A gentleman recently asked me to build a large, expensive one (different design) for him, but I didn't want the responsibility. If I mess up something...

Thanks. And it looks like you are in the most beautiful place.

Battery life Like most things in life...or on a boat, you have to do your best. Buy the best that you can afford, then do your best to understand how it all works...and then maintain it within those parameters. For batts, I have Lifeline AGM deep-cycle for the house and their starting batts...

Thank you. That's so nice. I really appreciate it.

I built this four years ago. It's a modern V-hulled steel vessel. It is presently in Sarasota, FL at Marina Jack and is shown on my website: Passage | Homepage I have $850,000. invested and will sell for about $550,000.

Thanks y'all.