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Priced for quick sale due to another boat purchase, This stout Klaus Baess designed trawler built to Lloyd's of London standards has treated our family well for 8 years. powered by a Perkins 6.354 which has never given us an issue. Motivated to sell and no reasonable offer will be refused. PM...

Apollo 32 I have a 1972 Apollo 32 You may be interested in. Only reason I'm selling is to go a few feet bigger. The boat has been great to my family and I for 8 years. The Perkins 6.354 has never given me a lick of trouble and Ive taken good care of it.

A little squirt of throttle to get more flow over the rudder helps at times. The more I read, I am assuming that it happened because of my flat stern and too slow a speed. This has been a wealth of insight and advice!

Avoidance is indeed key, I agree 100%. I don't push my luck on the Sean P, but pose the question to this wealth of experience to see if there's a solution to the problem. If that solution is boat related, great. If its due to my own mishandling of the vessel, I say even better! Learning is free...

I've always felt that the rudder was too small. The boat handles fine in glassy waters, but its really hands on with a wave height of 2 feet or more. I had the boat hauled this spring and asked about a new rudder, to which the guy at the boat yard told me that the current sized rudder was...

I was curious how everyone else's rig handles in following seas. I do my best to stay on the backside of a wave in following seas, matching the speed, etc., but I swear to King Neptune that my boat will swap ends in even a 2 foot wave in following seas, if I somehow screw up the speed and get on...

which marina is it at?

Is blue goose shutting down?

I too had this same issue with my Loforten. It turned out that the rubber bellows in the fuel pump was rotted just enough to make the fuel flow erratic, thus the weird burning. If you have the Walboro style pump, you can get these replacement bellows from Dickinson and they are wicked cheap, and...

Anyone heading to the inner harbor this coming weekend for all the festivities? I'm a first timer for this event by boat. www.starspangled200.com

What marina in KY lake are you headed to?

Well, there's news. Good and bad. I suppose I should start with the good. First good lesson I learned was that I should have incorporated one or two more days into the trip to compensate for weather. I had been studying the weather patterns religiously for the period covering this trip, and...

I'm in no hurry, I have 7 days off. if I cant get it done in that time, she can stay where she is until I can resume the voyage. I'm not one to be pressured by timelines, although I do have to go back to work at some point!

thanks. looks like i have a lot of reading to do.

I believe I need to do more research on this. Im having some difficulty figuring out what all I am looking at, on these tide charts.

My last trip I did at 7 knots... Seemed to be the most comfortable and economical. I'll look at OpenCPN. Thanks for the tip.

I have a chart plotter, a chart plotter app on my iPad, and I have paper charts. I was only looking at tide charts. Perhaps I should be looking at more?

Definitely have towing assistance package from Boat US. The tides are going to be tricky, as daylight takes precedence over riding tides, but there's windows throughout each day where they will benefit us, according to the tide charts I am looking at.

Our trip in the Apollo starts in a week. I believe I have the majority of the kinks worked out on Sully. After being on the hard for a number of years, there was a solid weeks worth of work to be done; changing impellers of all sorts, put in a new hot water heater, fresh filters all around, new...

I just closed today on her. I only have driven her on a short sea trial, but find the handling characteristics rather enjoyable, compared to my houseboat. I plan on three or four days worth of shaking down in a few weeks, followed by the trek from New Jersey to Baltimore in mid April. Stay...

I'm just going from Jersey to Baltimore... Looking forward to the trip!