Recent content by Chopperguy

No fish smell, just that lovely wood preservative, 69 years of diesel and oil!!!

Heading home at a stately 5.5!!

My sister has one that they use on their 5th wheel trailer, that we borrowed not long ago. It works great, it's small, runs on propane and uses 2 D batteries for power. I was shocked that it works so good. I can't recall the name brand off the top of my head but have considered installing one on...

I found out that my old onan gen set is most likely dead!! ( not sure i can even get it out of the boat ) so rather than pay huge sums of money to repair or replace, I bought a honda from Craigslist and will just plug in my power cord. It will get me by for the Labor Day week cruise, and it's...

I also would love to find a way to supplement my boat addiction. I have looked into crabbing in Bellingham and it looks and sounds great except that pesky $ 100,000 cost for the license. My boat would be perfect for it as well as other things like day charters or booze cruises around the bay. I...

On our way home from our first weekend cruise. Right in the middle of Bellingham bay. This pic is about 15 min before I learned a valuable lesson about fuel line feed and return line. Emptied out the stbd tank and filled up the port tank!!! Whoops!! 30 min later after some frantic repriming we...

I wish I flew out of bham, sadly I work on the east coast. But don't worry, it's hard to see any details from the chopper. I have been flying for 14 years and have only gotten a show twice. Once was pre arranged, told my ex when I was going to be flying over and to be ready so I guess that...

Riding motorcycles, and fortunately my career of flying helicopters. It would be my hobby but I knew I couldn't afford it so I found a way to get payed to do it!! Lucky me!!!!

I found a "personal massager" left by the PO daughter that lived aboard for a while. Other than that nothing interesting, just standard boat stuff. Some spare filters and stuff that nobody would have a use for other than on the boat. Also a lot of nearly completed projects!

Thanks! My cup runneth over!!

The previous owner was into diving and was going to put a submarine on the huge aft deck. There is a large swimstep and removable dive ladder as well.

We are up in Bellingham. The hard part for us is to get all the kids to want to go at the same time. The oldest is 19 and he loves it, the other 2 are 17 and 16 year old girls and the old boat thing is really not cool unless they are tanning. Which of course gets them lots of attention and I...

Hahaha! So far I haven't had to push them, they just jump in inspire of the cold PNW water

Some pics of the Norland

Have been following the forum for about a year now and have really enjoyed it so far. I finally became an active member! My wife and I have owned the Norland for just over a year now and are loving it (me more than her). The Norland is a 1946 54' converted seiner powered by a Detroit 8v71. Way...