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  1. Captain Ralph

    Getting to Green Turtle Cay to check on damaged boat

    Last I heard, all of the normal Albury ferrys are out of service.
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    New Cummins Genset chewing through impellers

    Ah, Just noticed you were down under. Please fill us in on your results. Thanks for the site lead.
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    New Cummins Genset chewing through impellers

    Sherwood usually has their impeller market locked up. Unless you went to a Globe design.
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    I give you criteria, you select the Boat!

    This might do the trick.
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    Any way to tell between red diesel and ATF in the bilge?

    What color is your coolant? It would have it's own stench and taste also.
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    Generator Frequency

    Before anything. How are you sure it's making 50 htz? How are you sure it's turning 1500RPM? Thinking that lil giffy analog meter on the console is accurate? Have you the correct strobe tach, palm tach, freq meter on hand?
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    Who had right of way?

    Kinda of Gross tonnage wins??? It is a safer way of using the water ways. If you come home in one piece, it could be an un-wriiten good rule of life.
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    Who had right of way?

    Good point. I was trying to arouse this in thread; http://www.trawlerforum.com/forums/s3/meanwhile-chesapeake-40061-3.html#post692563 A few may of tired of my point. Overall; Snail Boters think they have so many rite of ways and it's just is not so.
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    Who had right of way?

    A recreational fishing boat has NO rites of way..... A commercial fishing boat showing a basket or proper lights is RAM.
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    Who had right of way?

    Snail Boter.
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    Who had right of way?

    Further down the rule book, A snailing craft shall not cross or enter a channel and obstruct vessels already navigating in the channel, shall not impede NUC, RAM, CBD nor anybody claiming the center of the channel by restrictions in her draft (Inland version of CBD). Real fishing boats, with...
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    The Shrimpless Shrimper...

    Look up the world traveling yacht "Pink Shrimp".
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    And meanwhile in the Chesapeake...

    I remember back to open class discussions long ago. NavRule #3 quotes a smokey line. Legal interpretation can and does ad odors to the smoke quickly. These ideals are what I have always leaned to; Sailboats are not just sail boats. Quickly I found the below. No case history though. I...
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