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Manufacturer: Kingston Aluminum Yacht (Metalcraft Marine) Year: 1985 Mode: Custom Length: 44' (approximately 50' LOA with dinghy and anchor accounted for) PRICE REDUCED 21 March 2023: $125,000 Location: Beaufort, NC Contact: Please contact Broker John Painter at Bluewater Yacht Sales at...

Greetings sports fans! I've got Sylphide on the hard stand in the Beaufort NC area at the moment. Her bottom needed some love, and Jarrett Bay has taken care of that for me. She's actually been there for a few months now. Lately, as I'm sure many of us have, I've been thinking about the...

Good Morning :) After two and a half years of ownership, I've finally hauled Sylphide out for routine cleaning and inspection and bottom maintenance. She's at the Jarrett Bay Boatyard in Beaufort NC. At first, I was feeling pretty good about how clean she looked. The boatyard guys kept asking...

It had already been a long day. After an overnight transit of the St. Clair and Detroit Rivers, I’d had a 5 hour nap, and had successfully gotten my vessel into Cleveland. We were doing a a somewhat unusual split unload. We’d offload about half of our cargo at one dock, then head up the river...

Howdy gang! Y'all know me. Know how I earn a livin'. And if you don't, I'm Dave and I work on a commercial cargo ship on the Great Lakes. Specifically, I work for Grand River Navigation, which is a subsidiary of Rand Logistics. We're one of the largest carriers of raw materials on the...

Hello all of you attractive young people. I find myself with more money than usual, and less time to spend it than usual. I figure if I can't use the boat for cruising, I may as well take the opportunity to have some work done. She's currently in Brunswick, GA, but I have very little faith in...

If you think you might enjoy watching a badly edited series of short and poorly filmed video clips, laced with mild profanity and crude humo(u)r, please help yourself to this incomplete and generally terrible tour of RMS Queen Mary.

Howdy sports fans! I know this year has been... weird... and it's impacted everyone's travel plans, but since I don't have a house any more, I kinda feel like I have to travel. I can't very well spend the winter on a boat in the Hudson River, right? At least that's how I'm justifying it, since...

Greetings boatnerds, Now that I've sold the dirt house, I'd like to do a bit of a refit on the ol' girl. I've got a list of projects and improvements as long as LeBron James' legs, and here are the ones I'd like to tackle: Install Garmin Radar/Chartplotter, AIS, and Fogmate (from scratch)...

So it's been a really hot summer in Upstate New York. I feel like it's been over 90 about 4 days a week since I got here. The fans aren't cutting it. The cool showers aren't cutting it. When It rains, I have to close the boat up to keep dry, and the heat and humidity are wretched. I'm tired of...

Greetings attractive young people! I've decided to use some of the proceeds from the sale of my dirt castle to purchase a shiny new Dinghus and outboard. As far as the boat itself goes, I've narrowed that down to an AB Aluminum / Hypalon RIB job. It's a 9.5 footer that will carry what I need...

Greetings attractive young people, I've been on the big boat for the last five weeks, and was sufficiently busy there to have completely fallen out of the loop with the current state of the cruising world. I just got back to Sylphide last night, and after a few days of settling in, stocking...

Saw this posted on the interwebs somewhere the other day, and I thought y'awlin's might appreciate it. :flowers:

I just posted this thread looking for recommendations for the Norfolk area yesterday. After several helpful posts, I thought maybe I should expand the scope of the thread, and open up my larger plan to your thoughts, recommendations, and suggestions. So, based largely on previous posts in other...

Greetings Earthlings! Sylphide and I will be reunited after the first of the year, and I'm keen to make some more miles to southward. I'm planning to anchor my way down the western shore of Chesapeake at a fairly brisk pace, it being January and all. I'm thinking I'd like to stop in the Norfolk...

Greetings Earthlings. Sylphide and I will be leaving the Hudson River behind soon, and shaping a course for strange and exotic lands to the south. I'll have about three weeks of useful travel time, and am hoping to get to the bottom end of the Chesapeake. No idea if I'll get that far, but that's...

I don't remember ever seeing this before, but a marina neighbor has his phone number posted in vinyl lettering on the aft end of his house in the cockpit. My first knee-jerk reaction was 'ooh, that's brave,' but after thinking about it some more, it might be a really great idea. He's got his...

Well ladies and germs, it's officially official. I'm the proud new owner of Sylphide. The sale process was a long drawn out emotional roller coaster. At a couple of points I was pretty overwhelmed, and starting to second guess myself. Now that the dust has settled, though, I'm sooooo glad I went...

EDIT: The situation has resolved itself. The bank is playing ball, and I'mma buy me a boat! I honestly feel a bit foolish posting this issue while people in the Bahamas have REAL problems, but here it is. I'm still trying to buy Sylphide. I was hoping to have closed yesterday. I was hoping to...

Hello All, I'm in the process of buying a boat. I've made an offer, it's been accepted. I've made a deposit. I've had a surveyor aboard, and it passed with flying colors. The rest of the purchase process has had to be put on hold because I'm away for work, and can't finalize anything until I...

Howdy folks, I'm in need of a good surveyor in the Toronto area. Preferably one with experience with aluminum boats. I've been having more trouble than I expected to finding one. Several that I've called have either retired or are otherwise unable to accept work right now. Several have just...

Well I'm just fizzing fit to burst at the moment. I'm so damned excited I might start lactating! My offer on this boat has just been accepted! Now on to the surveys, sea trials, and red tape! I can't believe it! !!!!

Hello all, I looked at a boat today. I liked it. A lot. I want to marry it and have it's babies. Thing is, I don't have enough saved up to buy it outright just yet. I'm willing to finance the small portion I'm lacking, and would be able to pay it off comfortably in a few years. Seems easy...

Sorry, this is going to be a long winded rant. Please note that this isn't directed at anyone on this site. You'll understand where I'm coming from a whole lot better than the average Jonny on the street, I think. I'm sure you've all seen this video of this cruise ship crashing in Venice. In...

I was just perusing this ad for a 40' Hershine and happened to notice the following in the details section: Deck Mtrl: Teak over Fiberglass Disp: 28000 lb (12701 kg) Ballast Weight: Heavy Ballast Type: Spouse Range: Cabo Wabo Cantina = 1100 km I think I know why he's selling! lol