Recent content by Seeside

Having run boats and sold boats (about 700 in my twenty years running a yacht brokerage company) and owned boats with Detroits, most of these threads sound like the conventional wisdom of most folks that I encountered as a yacht broker. Don't get me wrong I owned many Detroit powered boats and...

Never Insist. Wow, I got dizzy reading all the opinions on who has the right of way. Most of the opinions are true in a vacuum or textbook sense. My own rule has served me well (knock on wood) for 52 years on the water....know who has the right of way long before you get too close, but never...

Thank you. It will be for sale when finished this fall and if I can't get what I want for her I will keep her and start cruising and fishing. It is small for cruising but big enough for me and my wife and everything is brand new. Once sold we will be looking to go back into an aft cabin...

Current project Here are a few random shots. It is a 1985 32'Blackfin F/B SF with 375 Hp. Cats. This was keel up project...new bottom, new fuel & water tanks, engines pulled and sent to shop for new everything, new risers, new Awlgrip (sprayed) All bilges repainted, new thru hull fittings...

Happy to help. Safe Travels.

Hi all I am a new member from Florida, by way of Eastern Long Island and a native of Rhode Island. Boating now about 52 years. 20 of those years as an owner of a Yacht Brokerage Company. Sold 100s of both power and sail. Currently retired but restored two power boats over the last 6 years in...