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02-18-2021, 08:36 PM
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Newbie
City: Titusville, FL
Join Date: Feb 2021
Posts: 2
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Choosing the boat
We were ocean sailing cruisers for years. Now exploring trawlers for future adventures on the waters. Selecting the right boat. So many possibilities.
Steel or fiberglas, single engine or twin. compromises between best navigation features and comfortable accommodations. As we shop for our target vessel, we will be reading here about choices that others have made.
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02-18-2021, 08:59 PM
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Moderator Emeritus
City: Au Gres, MI
Vessel Name: Black Dog
Vessel Model: Formula 41PC
Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 18,543
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Welcome aboard. Good luck with your search.
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Boat Nut:
If you are one there is no explanation necessary.
If you aren’t one, there is no explanation possible.
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02-19-2021, 12:26 AM
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TF Site Team
City: Ex-Brisbane, (Australia), now Bribie Island, Qld
Vessel Name: Now boatless - sold 6/2018
Vessel Model: Had a Clipper (CHB) 34
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 9,905
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Yes, welcome to TF, and best of luck. Also, because I can, I have taken the liberty of correcting the wee typo in the title. 
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Pete
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02-19-2021, 04:46 AM
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Newbie
City: Titusville, FL
Join Date: Feb 2021
Posts: 2
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Peter B. Please read: https://writingexplained.org/choose-vs-chose-difference.
I don't need more pettiness in my life and am leaving Trawler Forum now.
"I have taken the liberty of correcting the wee typo in the title."
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02-19-2021, 06:33 PM
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TF Site Team
City: Ex-Brisbane, (Australia), now Bribie Island, Qld
Vessel Name: Now boatless - sold 6/2018
Vessel Model: Had a Clipper (CHB) 34
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 9,905
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Originally Posted by hipilot
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Ok. Your choice, if you want to take bat and ball and go home, that's fine. I just thought I was doing you a small favour, as you left off a capital letter to start your title, and 'chose', as your link points out, is used in the 'past tense', and I thought you were yet to 'choose' your boat. I certainly did not do it for a petty reason. Just trying to be helpful is all...it's what we moderators try to do... 
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02-19-2021, 06:36 PM
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Guru
City: Northport
Join Date: Aug 2015
Posts: 2,026
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hipilot
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Have a great day.
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02-20-2021, 10:51 AM
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Guru
City: Nanaimo
Vessel Name: former owner of "Pilitak"
Vessel Model: Nordic Tug 37
Join Date: Feb 2018
Posts: 1,644
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hipilot
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Good luck.
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Nanaimo, BC
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02-20-2021, 11:23 AM
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Senior Member
City: Tampa
Join Date: Oct 2019
Posts: 138
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You may want to reconsider as he was trying to help you out. Then again you might not because...
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02-20-2021, 01:04 PM
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Veteran Member
City: Little River, SC
Vessel Name: Memory Lane (fiberglass)
Vessel Model: 1974 Pacemaker 40 Flush deck Motor Yacht
Join Date: Jan 2016
Posts: 88
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Wow, serendipity: what I like best about this forum is the stuff I learn when I am not looking for anything. I subscribed for the boat talk and have stayed for the unexpected things I pick up.
Cliff
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02-20-2021, 02:55 PM
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Guru
City: Fort Myers, FL... Summers in the Great Lakes
Vessel Name: Slow Hand
Vessel Model: Cherubini Independence 45
Join Date: Dec 2010
Posts: 11,794
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter B
Yes, welcome to TF, and best of luck. Also, because I can, I have taken the liberty of correcting the wee typo in the title. |
No good deed / intention goes unpunished.
Feel free to correct me as needed. I appreciate your good intentions.
Ted
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I want to spend some time, Not come and go in a heated rush.....
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02-20-2021, 03:31 PM
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Guru
City: Southport, FL near Panama City
Vessel Name: FROLIC
Vessel Model: Mainship 30 Pilot II since 2015. GB-42 1986-2015. Former Unlimited Tonnage Master
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 4,620
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No loss.
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Rich Gano
FROLIC (2005 MainShip 30 Pilot II)
Panama City area
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02-20-2021, 03:56 PM
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Guru
City: Qualicum Beach, Vancouver Island
Vessel Name: Capricorn
Vessel Model: Mariner 30 - Sedan Cruiser 1969
Join Date: Feb 2019
Posts: 2,019
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If boating has become his passion I predict he will be back, maybe under a new name....lol.
I have been very active over the years at "dpreview," a photographer forum, probably one of the best on the net. This one guy, very knowledgeable would come on and invariably loose his cool over something and get booted off the forum. Three times he came back, each time under a different name. He just didn't know how to play in the sandbox with others, kind of like this guy. But on his fourth return, yet again under another new name, he was different. He must have had a Christmas Carol moment, the photography ghosts of Xmas past, present and future must have visited him. And he woke up the next day a changed man.
He became one of the most helpful pleasant fellows around - go figure!
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02-20-2021, 05:24 PM
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Guru
City: Los Angeles
Join Date: Feb 2020
Posts: 1,220
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I'm kind of amused by (and hardly immune from) the seemingly endless spelling and
grammatical errors seen online.
It's almost as though digital communication even with its convenient editing is still
too much trouble to be bothered with in many instances.
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02-20-2021, 06:44 PM
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Guru
City: Oconto, WI
Vessel Name: Best Alternative
Vessel Model: 36 Albin Aft Cabin
Join Date: Oct 2012
Posts: 2,736
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if "hipilot" wants to leave the forum, let him, or her. Of course I have no way of knowing if he has reinvented himself once or more times in the past to save face. But seeing as how he joined in Feb. of 2021 (maybe 10 or 15 days ago) and has posted a total of two times, one time being his resignation. I guess loosing him is no great loss.
pete
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02-20-2021, 06:44 PM
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TF Site Team
City: Seneca Lake NY
Vessel Name: Bacchus
Vessel Model: MS 34 HT Trawler
Join Date: Nov 2014
Posts: 7,084
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hipilot
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Pete
Too bad a new member doesn't take the time to understand that mods can sometimes be helpful and have good intentions.
If OP has an attitude problem it may be best.
I wonder if hipilot would like his account deleted?
Spell check does some funny things and we don't always catch & correct it in time.
I hope others realize sometimes Mods make some small edits and may not even make comments or PM about it... I have at least.
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Don
2008 MS 34 HT Trawler
"Bacchus"
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02-20-2021, 06:56 PM
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Senior Member
City: Three Oaks, TN
Vessel Name: Pipe Dream
Vessel Model: Silverton 42C
Join Date: Apr 2020
Posts: 165
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Having moderated a board in the past I'm well aware that it is often (not always) a thankless job.
Thank you all for your efforts.
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02-20-2021, 11:32 PM
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Guru
City: Qualicum Beach, Vancouver Island
Vessel Name: Capricorn
Vessel Model: Mariner 30 - Sedan Cruiser 1969
Join Date: Feb 2019
Posts: 2,019
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To the OP, that's you HiPilot, I know you are reading these comments. The next time you ask a question here, be more specific in your boating interest, short cruises/long cruises, open ocean/coastal only, boating season only/off season, fair weather/rougher weather, shorter distances/longer distances. The more specific you can be the more help you well get.
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02-21-2021, 12:04 AM
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Guru
City: Sydney
Vessel Name: Sojourn
Vessel Model: Integrity 386
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 12,802
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If a member is easily troubled,finding out sooner is better than later. That said,I`d rather understand and help than pillory, but a forum like this is not the place.
PeterB is guilty of nothing more than being helpful. If the OP can reflect and see that, well and good but if thought processes exclude it, that`s a wrap.
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BruceK
2005 Integrity 386 "Sojourn"
Sydney Australia
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02-21-2021, 12:24 AM
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TF Site Team
City: Ex-Brisbane, (Australia), now Bribie Island, Qld
Vessel Name: Now boatless - sold 6/2018
Vessel Model: Had a Clipper (CHB) 34
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 9,905
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Maybe to obtain some collective benefit from all this - and I hope the OP does return after due reflection - as he may well not have realised I was a moderator, and thought I was just being a smart Alec.
Anyway, the point is, the ability for ordinary members to edit their post is lost after 2 hours. However, we moderators can edit for you if that is the case. It must be annoying to put up a post, especially if it's a thread title, or boat price, eg. - get it wrong - and not be able to correct it.
So, message is it can be corrected.
Two ways...
1. by PMing one of us mods, or just reporting the post and making that request. We can then do it for you if a simple correction needed...
2. ...or if you wanted to do a more major edit, we can go in and restore your edit function, and advise you of that.
Hope this helps inform everyone re this issue..? 
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03-01-2021, 01:59 PM
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Member
City: Port Saint Lucie
Vessel Name: Knot on Call
Vessel Model: 2003 Mainship 400
Join Date: Jan 2019
Posts: 10
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Hipilot....take a look at the Mainship 400. I say this because it is a very popular boat and I am about to put ours on the market. You can find lots of info about this great trawler on the web. if you would like more information about our trawler, you can send me a note.... kimdabe@yahoo.com.
Boat is in Fort Pierce Florida.
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