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02-16-2018, 09:50 AM
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Enigma
City: Slicker?
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 16,245
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RTF
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02-16-2018, 10:11 AM
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#22
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Guru
City: Aventura FL
Vessel Name: Kinja
Vessel Model: American Tug 34 #116 2008
Join Date: Oct 2017
Posts: 10,551
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Shrew
I like talking and reading about boats. My non-boating friends do not.
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They rather watch Oprah and reality shows?
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The meek will inherit the earth but, the brave will inherit the seas.
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02-16-2018, 12:26 PM
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#23
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Senior Member
City: Bainbridge Island
Vessel Name: Mahalo
Vessel Model: 2018 Hampton Endurance 658
Join Date: Apr 2016
Posts: 496
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To learn from everyone else and make my cruising more enjoyable. And if I can do the same for anyone else - bonus! Develop some in-person friendships I wouldn't have otherwise made - lottery win!
JustBob
M/V Mahalo - Blog
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02-16-2018, 12:59 PM
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#24
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Guru
City: Palm Coast, FL
Vessel Name: Coquina
Vessel Model: Lagoon 380
Join Date: Jan 2017
Posts: 2,553
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easy answers
* It appears that I'm actually working 
and, there is no one around within a 6 hour drive to ask about salt water boating.
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02-16-2018, 01:25 PM
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#25
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Senior Member
City: Rockford, IL
Vessel Name: Du NORD
Vessel Model: Albin-25
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 350
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As a lifelong sailor who was never what one would call "handy" with small outboard motors, and recent convert to a small "trawler" (actually an old Scandinavian-style motor cruiser) I'm here to learn as much as I can about boats powered by inboard Diesel engines.
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02-16-2018, 03:13 PM
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#26
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Guru
City: Cary, NC
Vessel Name: Skinny Dippin'
Vessel Model: Navigator 4200 Classic
Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 5,841
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I thought this was an Amway meeting.
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2000 Navigator 4200 Classic
(NOT a trawler)
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02-16-2018, 03:36 PM
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Guru
City: Quebec
Vessel Name: Bleuvet
Vessel Model: Custom Built
Join Date: Jan 2016
Posts: 4,277
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RT Firefly
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Are you trying to say that I am drinking too much? I am afraid that you are totally right lol
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02-16-2018, 03:37 PM
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#28
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Guru
City: Quebec
Vessel Name: Bleuvet
Vessel Model: Custom Built
Join Date: Jan 2016
Posts: 4,277
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom.B
I thought this was an Amway meeting.
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Sooorry wrong door lol
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02-16-2018, 03:40 PM
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Senior Member
City: SOBX North Carolina
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 348
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Why? Because this is the only forum that fits my particular interests right now and targeted to real substance of boating across a wide variety of regions in a variety of boats. And it is probably the only forum these days with a bunch of addicts that I know of on the net where everyone gets along. 
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02-16-2018, 04:13 PM
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#30
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Guru
City: La Conner Wa.
Vessel Name: Sea Fever
Vessel Model: Defever 49 RPH
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 877
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Great!! A forum for a bunch of addicts. Law enforcement will be checking us out for sure now!
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02-16-2018, 04:17 PM
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Guru
City: San Diego
Vessel Model: Helmsman 4304
Join Date: May 2016
Posts: 1,971
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To learn from others. But this place has a tendency to get overly dramatic at times.
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02-16-2018, 04:32 PM
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Senior Member
City: SOBX North Carolina
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 348
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fletcher500
To learn from others. But this place has a tendency to get overly dramatic at times.
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Oh that's just those drag queens that promises to perform at the up and coming gathering. 
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02-16-2018, 04:40 PM
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#33
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TF Site Team
City: California Delta
Vessel Name: FlyWright
Vessel Model: 1977 Marshall Californian 34 LRC
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 13,719
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I came here 10 years ago to help me learn how to maintain my newly purchased boat. I found a group of folks as passionate about all things trawlering as I was. I e-met some wise folks and a few wiseguys and many of them became real friends after we met in person. We've even got a SF Bay and California Delta Social Group on this site for our discussion of local issues or boating trips together.
I continue visiting for learning, camaraderie and sharing info I had gleaned through the years. I agreed to volunteer as a moderator with a great group of folks on the Site Team who are true professionals in their own right and willing to help others as a way to pay back for all we've been helped.
I find the demographics of this group to run pretty close to that which I find comfortable and rewarding in my own real life. It's amazing how much you can learn about others when you listen (or read) their words for 10 years!
Next week I'm traveling across the country to meet many in our community for the first time...even though we've been posting, emailing, texting and in some cases, calling for up to 10 years. To be honest, it feels kind of strange yet very comfortable at the same time. It should be a week to remember!
I sure hope I don't regret this!!
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02-16-2018, 04:58 PM
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#34
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Guru
City: Fort Lauderdale. Florida, USA
Join Date: Jan 2014
Posts: 21,449
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Lou_tribal
I am sure the that title looks enigmatic but here is the question, not really related to trawlers but a bit in a way.
A lot of people (me included) posting here are recurrent, daily or almost, user, poster or whatever I can call them.
So the philosophical question.
Why?
Why are you involved in this forum?
Is it only for informative purpose?
Is it because you feel part of a community or "family"?
Is it only by curiosity?
Is it only because you have nothing else to do?
I will answer for myself. I am here to learn from you. To get support from more experienced people. Because I am interested in knowing what people loving trawlers think and do. And because I think this " community" is really cool and fun.
What about you?
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Wifey B: We're also on other forums but the people there don't cruise or talk about doing so on one and on the other the sail boaters take over the conversations and go to living on a dollar a day conversations or telling someone who has never boated to just buy a sailboat and start their circumnavigation.
Here, we learn about cruising areas. Then we also try to share our experiences of those areas.
This, to us, is a forum where powerboat cruising experiences are shared.
Then there are other topics. For instance, hubby loves talking about and learning about all different brands of boats, even those we have no desire to own.
There's just a lot of conversation between active boaters and you can choose what you enjoy. We might read but we never discuss anchors. On the other hand, hubby will discuss single vs twin objectively even though we choose twins, but he'll never say twins is the only way.
This is also generally a pleasant forum as those who would make it otherwise don't seem to thrive. Plus the moderators do a good job of moving certain topics to OTDE. You guys are really pleasant people to talk to.
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02-16-2018, 08:49 PM
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#35
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Senior Member
City: Anacortes
Vessel Name: Salish Nomad
Vessel Model: American Tug 34
Join Date: Jan 2017
Posts: 317
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Still hoping to connect with other DeFever 34 owners.
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Dave Thompson
American Tug 34-109
Home Port Anacortes Skyline & Sitka AK
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02-16-2018, 08:55 PM
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#36
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Guru
City: Quebec
Vessel Name: Bleuvet
Vessel Model: Custom Built
Join Date: Jan 2016
Posts: 4,277
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Helen Marie
Still hoping to connect with other DeFever 34 owners.
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Sorry cannot help you with this but glad you gave your answer
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02-16-2018, 09:23 PM
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#37
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Guru
City: Gibsons, B.C., Canada
Vessel Name: Island Pride
Vessel Model: Palmer 32'
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 4,347
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We have, well Sechelt has, one 34 DeFever at the Lighthouse Pub Marina there. Yes, they also have pretty darn good food there.
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02-16-2018, 10:11 PM
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#38
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Senior Member
City: Anacortes
Vessel Name: Salish Nomad
Vessel Model: American Tug 34
Join Date: Jan 2017
Posts: 317
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Quote:
Originally Posted by C lectric
We have, well Sechelt has, one 34 DeFever at the Lighthouse Pub Marina there. Yes, they also have pretty darn good food there.
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Thanks, good to know.
We were in Egmont last year, if we had known about the boat in Sechelt we would have been tempted to visit.
This is why we like T F.
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Dave Thompson
American Tug 34-109
Home Port Anacortes Skyline & Sitka AK
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02-16-2018, 10:14 PM
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#39
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Guru
City: Port Townsend, WA
Vessel Name: Traveler
Vessel Model: Cheoy Lee 46 LRC
Join Date: Nov 2011
Posts: 1,516
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Sometimes learning what NOT to do is as equally valuable as learning what TO do. There have been many a vicarious lesson learned on this forum!
(We know who we are...)
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02-16-2018, 10:43 PM
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#40
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Guru
City: Port Townsend
Vessel Name: The Promise
Vessel Model: Roughwater 35
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 1,568
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RT Firefly
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What he said. I’ve gotten a lot out of frequenting this forum, and hope from time to time I can help somebody else out. The entertaining part is separating the wheat from the chaff.
Love the great links and blogs I get turned on to.
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