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  1. Ghostrider42

    Nordic Tug 42' height

    Trying to avoid the new engine emissions? Can't burn old fuel anymore...
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    Nordic Tug 42' height

    Then you're not looking too hard: https://www.nordictugs.com/dealers/
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    Hurricane Joaquin -- just FYI

    GOLDEN TRIANGLE WEATHER PAGE for constant updates. This is the single best website I've found.
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    Hurricane Joaquin -- just FYI

    There was a reported ping from their EPIRB but it went silent right after. CG now reporting finding wreckage and life rings from the ship - still in the area of Crooked Island. Why did missing El Faro sail straight INTO Hurricane Joaquin? | Daily Mail Online...
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    Twins on a single shaft?

    I have four DD671's - two per shaft. Single gearbox per shaft. Each shaft protected by Kort nozzles and flanking rudders.
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    Missing ship

    There was a reported ping from their EPIRB but it went silent right after. CG now reporting finding wreckage and life rings from the ship - still in the area of Crooked Island. Why did missing El Faro sail straight INTO Hurricane Joaquin? | Daily Mail Online
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    Hurricane Joaquin -- just FYI

    El Faro has been found off Crooked Island, listing at 15 deg and taking on water. No word on the 33 on board. Not just a cargo ship, but a ro-ro vehicle carrier. Oh, well, there go the great bonefishing flats.
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    Missing ship

    ELEUTHERA, Bahamas (AP) — Hurricane Joaquin ripped off roofs, uprooted trees and unleashed heavy flooding as it hurled torrents of rain across the eastern and central Bahamas on Friday, and the U.S. Coast Guard said it was searching for a cargo ship with 33 people aboard that went missing...
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    When to Go South

    What foolishness!:banghead: Better a week late, than not at all.
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    When to Go South

    Stay put. The storm is headed your way and you don't want to be caught out in it. I rode out Camile, Andrew and Katrina tied to docks. Our ship survived, the docks didn't. A tug tied opposite us in Gulfport was found a mile inland during Camile. We got lucky with Andrew and Katrina as we...
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    Hurricane Joaquin -- just FYI

    I rode out Camile, Andrew and Katrina on ships in harbour
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    Hurricane Joaquin -- just FYI

    Huh - what? On that day the centre of this storm was over the Turks and Caicos. That my friends is 315nm from Key Largo. It was stationary at that point. This morning the centre was located 23.4N/74.8W still over San Salvador/Rum Cay. GOLDEN TRIANGLE WEATHER PAGE www.vortex.plymouth.edu [/B]
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    Bottom paint on aluminum hull

    Pluckebaum is 100% correct.:thumb:
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    Chattanooga TN liveaboards

    Is there much barge/tow traffic near these marinas?
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    Best way to store Florida trawler out of season

    On the hard is the cheapest. Shrink wrap it if outside. And don't forget to keep up the insurance payments~
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    WiFi Hot Spots

    For $160/mo we use a wireless setup with security and 50g
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    Newbie from Florida

    We've delivered many boats to the Eastern Caribbean - mostly sailing catamarans. Not so many trawlers, but several large sportfishermen to the same area. If I had a trawler, I'd probably take it to Cozumel or Belize and stay at or near their barrier reef (largest in western hemisphere). The...
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    Newbie from Florida

    Welcome aboard - always need another "pilot" here. Your boat would make a nice dinghy for our crew. I wouldn't want to take it beyond the Bahamas tho. The seas south of there get kinda rough.
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    2008 Bering 55 steel Trawler- a good trawler for liveaboards?

    Bering history Review: Bering Yachts 55' Steel Trawler | YachtForums: The World’s Largest Yachting Community
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    Is the ocean really dead?

    It sank - it's on the bottom and will not dissipate anytime soon.
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    Is the ocean really dead?

    We did right after it happened. Since that time the Pacific is pretty much dead. Massive floating debris fields are still coming ashore on Vancouver Island - which prominently sticks out. Most of the fish are contaminated with Cesium, Thorium and dozen other radioactive materiels. This is...
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    California tax on Visiting boats

    Just another money grubbing scheme - you know most of your coastal states are broke or about to be. They'll reward boat owners turning in other owners. Greece is trying a similar scheme - cruising permits. Gotta love em for trying.
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    Detroit 8v71TI

    350k miles = 12,500 hrs Before I was driving boats, I was driving school buses and CAT's in the 1950's. I commercially fished the GL, then I started rebuilding diesel engines - so I saw what happens to them when not taken care of properly. Twenty years in the RCAF as - you guessed it -...
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    Where will the trawler market go?

    When I left the steel boats on the GL, the first boat I bought had cedar hull. It was 23 yrs old in 1979 and I just saw it last month in the Acores. If I could go back in time, I would have taken better care of her. My next one will be built of coyhaique cypress.
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    Water Supply

    Don't have that problem we make 100L/hr
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