Search results

The friendliest place on the web for anyone who enjoys boating.
If you have answers, please help by responding to the unanswered posts.
  1. B

    Piloting Displacement vs. Planing Vessel

    My experience with rounded hull F.D. is that you don't really steer, it's more like subtle corrections. Trying to steer only results in snake trails.
  2. B

    hydraulic swim platform

    Looks great, isn't it just what the gentleman enquired about ? What's with all the negativity? or are you all secretly desirous.
  3. B

    Seeking Trawler in Australia

    Good luck finding anything in Oz along those lines of what your seeing in the North America scene. Closest you will find is old wooden ex Cray boats or prawning trawlers. Australian market seems inundated with plastic fantastic boats similar to what you will now see parked along the shoreline up...
  4. B

    Our "new" Gardner engine on the dynamometer

    black swan event ? Can't say I had ever heard that term being applied before - black swan event - as in rare - there's tens of thousands here. Just a drive along any fresh waterway you see them.
  5. B

    Interesting boats

    I can't be bothered looking, funny that !
  6. B

    Views from the helm

    Now I realise why boaters go so far north - breathtaking pic!
  7. B

    Views from the helm

    I went out east maybe 10km and just dropped the sea anchor ⚓ overboard. Spent a few solitary hours enjoying the view.
  8. B

    Views from the helm

    Heading east from Barren Joey lighthouse
  9. B

    Flopper stoppers

    the water on the surface above the rising flopper starts to "boil" so there is clearly a decent amount of force being imparted. Having had a bit of experience with making and employing flopper stoppers my thoughts are - 1. Your flopper is too shallow in the water. Or much more likely... 2...
  10. B

    Can the Cruise Industry survive ?

    Cruise ships Stinking cess pitts of disease - should all be driven ashore in India and cut in tiny pieces. Nothing but trouble
  11. B

    Blisters

    T.F. is a great site ? You can quickly learn about everything Not wanted to be seen in a boat.?
  12. B

    Remove flybridge, add solar

    Now if everyone was as sensible as Mark,all boats would be green and yellow.
  13. B

    Beneteau Swift Trawler 44

    Haha, in a harbour? In the UK ? ������
  14. B

    New Grand Banks owner - UK

    A stunningly grand looking boat you have there Trev and the red ensign looks at home.
  15. B

    Interesting boats

    Captain Nemo's Nautilus?
  16. B

    Teak decks

    Teak deck threads I would hazard a guess that threads on T.F. regarding teak decks almost rival the never ending threads on anchors ?
  17. B

    Clothing Optional Cruising??

    A perfect summation of nudism. Also might add that diving naked into warm water from your own boat is as close to heaven as I will be getting.?
  18. B

    Hendo's Randall 35 Cray Boat complete rebuild, Perth, Western Australia

    Well Well !! I can't help remembering what dad told me when I was a young man. "Son, for a stress free life keep away from anything with tits or a motor"
  19. B

    What’s the perfect boat…?

    This one is perfect for me
  20. B

    PNW, 6-8 Weeks charter this year.

    Then I live in the pacific south west !!?
  21. B

    When Does it Become Cost Prohibited?

    Who would go back to a 'rag top' whatever the price of fuel.?
  22. B

    Fuel Cost Changing Cruising Plans?

    If your worried about fuel costs then you shouldn't be boating
  23. B

    Extreme Weather Event in SouthEast Queensland, Australia

    Bruce, has the water level at the Brooklyn marinas risen or is the entrance to the ocean at Broken bay too wide?
  24. B

    Where to get anchor chain in Sydney

    Thx Dean for that info
  25. B

    I am surprised(and nothing related to trawlers)

    The worst scenario has happened - the Stolichnaya is being removed from the shelves !!
Back
Top Bottom