Recent content by Rkfitz

Check out "What yacht to do". Also, just for fun try "Cruising the Cut", a liveaboard cruising England's canal system.

My Pearson sailboat has ports made by Beckson and they are still in business. Might be worth a look.

The Summitt site lists that model as drawing 1.6 amps at 115 vac, or 184 watts. That would be 15.3 amps @ 12 vdc. A Vitrifrigo 8.1 cu in marine refrigerator is listed at 65 watts or 5.4 amps @ 12 vdc. Assuming a 20 minute run time per hour for each unit @ 12 vdc the Vitrifrigo would use 43 ah...

Hadley Harbor isn't one of my faves, I don't trust the mooring balls in a blow, and when the air is still it's a bit fetid in the summer. Cutty is Great! I prefer to stay on a ball outside of the harbor when the wind is from the south. Be sure to have breakfast at the Fishing Club. On occasion...

We've been on the Mystic for a couple of decades, and have been members of the seaport longer than that. We dinghy up there all summer, usually spend a few nights at the dock just to experience the seaport at night. There is a dinghy dock in downtown Mystic just south of the highway bridge...

Hey old Dan! You were right! Lately seems like everyone is more right than me.

Thanks for the welcomes, and for the great advice! My ground tackle isn't what I'd like yet so I'll duck into a marina when I can. I've been on the East River on my sailboat (woo hoo! 9 knots, I can't believe we're going this fast!) and I suppose I'm still a slave to my Eldridge, so I'll...

Yup. Apparently someone fired a shot straight up into the air and it came down into the window. Kind of explains the barbed wire fence around the marina.

Hi! I'm at Fort Rachel. Thanks for the advice! As it turned out the window in front of the lower station hasn't been replaced yet (broken a few weeks ago by a stray bullet) so I'm spending the week on board in Portsmouth Va. going over all of the systems. At this point I think I'll wait another...

Hi, after a lifetime of sailing I have bowed to my beloved's wishes and I'm moving to the motor side. I just bought an '81 Atlantic 44 in Portsmouth, Va and will be moving it to Mystic, Ct. next week. It's an old boat and the engines haven't been used much the last few years, so what could go...