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I will get the rant out of the way quickly. At our sister forum - Cruiser's Forum - they have a section called: Provisioning: Food & Drink. Why don't we have something like this here? The link I have provided goes directly to their provisioning sub forum for you to peruse at your convenience...

Okay, just watch the first two minutes of this video and comment.

Thought I'd throw this Jeff Cote short video (2 minutes +) on why swapping out incandescent bulbs with LED bulbs may not always work - and the solution.

For those of you whose eyes didn't totally glaze over with the topic I posted, I urge you to watch this almost hour long video. The video was created with a talk Marc Swenson - a historian - delivered at the Whatcom museum in 2014. You will be surprised at the interesting history of the area...

Just blanked out on the name of the marina but for anyone who has visited Victoria and is a boat owner, you've stared at this marina while on your walking tours. You can moor at said marina in the off season - Oct - end of May - then you get the boot. Now the chap in this video is living...

I kind of have a basic mistrust of rafting up in marinas when visiting. I'm always wondering about the damage done to my boat if I'm away from my boat when the inside boat owner decides he wants to leave. Have any of your experienced damage to your boat due to others moving your boat around as...

My understanding is there are VHF repeaters installed along the inside passage, but are there any that service Bute and Toba Inlet. Since VHF is line of site, I presume there would be limited usage in these two inlets if there are no repeaters. Anyone use there VHF in either of these inlets?

This is a post that I think will be invaluable for folks with older boats. The question is: should I change out my working battery switch and if so why? I am linking a short five minute video by Jeff Cote, he will do a better job than I to answer, and listen to the end to see why he is such a...

Vaccinated only, Americans only. Rest of world first week in September.

I will skip a long intro, here is Jeff Cote of Pacific Yacht Systems discussing how to prepare for a boat fire. Given all the boat fires just in the last month and just on Vancouver Island, add that number to all the boat fires in North America and perhaps having a good plan is the smart way to go:

So I bought one of the grapnel anchors with the expectation they were crap and the guy who does all those anchor videos didn't disappoint and confirmed they were/are crap. But........... I didn't really purchase it for in water use but more with the dinghy floating just off shore and slightly...

So I will link to the story (2017) of a guy who paddle boarded from Washington up to Alaska - 750 miles. I heard of this story about two years ago and for some reason it keeps popping back into my head. What has me wondering is his handling of Johnstone Strait to begin with, thinking wind and...

Don't know why this popped into my brain, well... actually I do. In the link below is where I used to live (only look at it during light hours PST), its a live link so if you look at it at night, it will be dark. [You have to hit - Watch this video on Youtube] So the marina you can see in...

So here I sit on an Easter Monday watching Sea Venture's latest offering. And in their transit the paravanes have been deployed. But they have been deployed in an area with potential debris. So my question is simple: what happens when a paravane line snags a log or what have you? :facepalm:

So my anchor locker leaks, it isn't fiberglass. My boat is mostly wood and the joins of wood in my anchor locker leak. It took me a while to figure it out. Water would be in the bilge, I'd taste it, not salty. Then I noticed the water was "dirty" and I knew this couldn't be from the boat (was...

What I am posting is release of a video from the Wynn's - full time sailing couple travelling extensively - with their problems finding boat insurers that will cover them and allow them to live the lifestyle they have been living. Its all explained in the video. And note, this is problems...

So below are specs for my Mercruiser engine and if you go to Maximum RPM (WOT) you see there is a range from 5000-54000. Why is there a range, why doesn't it just say 5400? Mercury® MerCruiser®: 6.2L 6.2L 350 ECT 6.2L 350 ECT HP / kW 350 / 261 Maximum RPM (WOT) 5000 - 5400 Engine type...

Be patient with this video, the speaker talks like an old guy (hey I'm an old guy, I can get away with saying this) but I found the content disgusting (you'll know when it gets to that part) and fascinating as I never knew French Creek was so important.

I am curious as to anyone here stayed - legally or illegally - at Michele Pfeiffer's dock in Bute Inlet. By the way, the place is up for sale for $28, I'll be surprised if they get $5 million, crazy place to have such a heavy financial investment...

The boat is a repurposed lifeboat - 11 meters - runs on electric. The opening scene very much reminds me of Toba Inlet in Desolation Sound here in God's country. The boat reminded me of the Sea Piper and what to do with that open space for cruising. 11 meter fiberglass repurposed life boat -...

Since I've seen a number of enquires about boats to buy, getting to that season again and I just recently read a thread about four boat fires in my local area I thought I would post this short video from Jeff Cote, a PNW & BC electrical/electronics expert. He is posting short videos answering...

Seems to me that here in normally windy Qualicum Beach even for us we are experiencing far more gales than normal. What say you on the rest of the island and maybe Blaine, Billingham and Point Roberts?

Watching a news program in Canada around the topic of "Immunity Passports." The expert is a bio ethicist out of University of Toronto. His take is that immunity passports coming about very soon is also almost a given. For border openings sooner than later, this new requirement in my opinion...

From February 24 through to 27, the Vancouver International Boat show will be on, virtually on and its free to register. And with registration comes the seminars. (There is a limit of 500 for each seminar so arrive early for the topic you want to watch). I was going to list them, but they...

So I'll link to a product below that is a wifi booster, why can't we just use one of these at a marina to boost a signal. In an advert video, this product claims to automatically connect, so does that mean no password requirements, etc? Obviously if boosting wifi were this easy and cheap we'd...