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We are heading out Sunday on the boat (finally). Our friends are going with us on their boat. We plan to anchor in Big Lagoon for a few days and just play everything by ear. But I’m wondering if there are any good anchorages closer to Destin. We have another friend who will be trailering his...

I love the colorful displays Mother Nature gifts us with. Tchefuncte River in Madisonville, LA

Those of you with full canvas enclosures, do you remove them ahead of a tropical storm/minimal hurricane or leave them up?

A couple of them actually. We bought a brand new TV1 system. We installed it and then called Dish and activated the receiver. It worked but we kept getting a 004 error code. So we looked it up and it said that if you just push the channel up or down button and then back again it usually works...

Next is getting all that new chain in and the new anchor.

https://www.wafb.com/2019/05/23/morganza-spillway-be-opened-third-time-history/ This is a pretty big deal. I hope something gives and it doesn’t become necessary but so many people are claiming it’s already too late. I also read that Assumption Parish has closed all waterways. Things are...

One more thing checked off the list for this spring.

Hmmm... I think we should name it

If this is not allowed, please delete. Thought it would be a good discussion on insurance, boat ownership responsibility, squatting, etc. Squatting and insurance fraud in Jupiter, FL? This was posted elsewhere. “Here's the time line: Thur 4/18 pm: to my knowledge my boat is is out anchored...

What a total nightmare pain in the A$$ this has turned out to be. Warning....long rant ahead. If you don’t want to read the whole saga, please skip to the bottom where there is a question. Lol David and I ordered a new KVH TV1 system for the boat. We have direct tv at home. I called KVH and...

What do you think is a fair price for 240ft of used anchor chain? We want to replace ours and we met someone that offered to sell the spare they have. He said it’s practically brand new. He didn’t know what he wants for it so I’m looking for opinions on what would be a fair price to pay. And...

So we have some yucky cracked caulk on the exterior that needs to be replaced. We have already heard several opinions in what to go back with. So what say you? Is regular household exterior caulk good enough or.....something else? Someone suggested 5200. Pretty sure we are not going to use that.

Hi everybody. Long time no post. Hope everyone is doing great! We are having pfifertex window shades and a new flybridge enclosure made for the Sea Star. We are going from the current brown to a navy. I’ve narrowed it down to either Captain Navy or Royal Navy sunbrella for the flybridge. I’m...

Day 1 - Saturday the 4th. No go. Yucky weather all day. So we hung out on the boat at the marina. I pouted and took a nap. Then David decided to clean out the rats nest of old TV and audio electronics from previous owner that was cluttering up an entire valuable cabinet space. Then we went and...

Time to try this again! We flew back to Florida yesterday. Spent the night at a hotel in Clearwater beach. The boat is supposed to be put back in the water today. They got the props back yesterday from the prop shop. Ouchy on what that cost...:banghead::banghead: Looking at the weather, our...

Or rather...first thing I learned and retained. I have no idea what made me think of this. It was “hawse hole”.

I tried searching but couldn’t find anything. What do you use to keep water spots off windows? Will something like rain x work? Or will I have to go out and dry the windows every time we wash or rinse off the boat?

Has anyone used this product? The owner of a gorgeous 65’ Viking sportfish next to us at South Seas recommended it for cleaning our very dirty ugly power cord. I’m guessing he thought our cord was as much of an eyesore as I think it is...lol Anyway, I picked up a can when we got to Marina...

We didn’t get going as early as we had hoped so didn’t get very far today. We are docked at the south seas resort for the night on Captiva Island. The boat ran perfectly. My only complaint as the one who has to deal with the lines is that the lines that came with the boat suck! They are thick...

Morning and flying to Florida tomorrow afternoon to bring her home. Sooooo excited!!

after Guru? :socool::rofl::whistling:

I know some of you smart people will know all about this. It was mentioned to us by our broker who was told by our lender that if our closing is in Florida that we will have to pay this tax. I’m not sure there was a clear communication there. We do not live in Florida. Our loan will not be...

So the cockpit washdown has a lock on the door and it’s locked and nobody has a key. :banghead: That metal piece on the side...is that a manual handle in case windlass fails? Anybody familiar with seatel? There’s a seatel dome on the boat. I saw one old post on here when I did a search where...

Ok now that we are buying a new boat, I’m going to be posting a lot and bugging the crap out of everybody...lol Does anyone know of a source to buy a nice sturdy wooden hi-low table that doesn’t cost $3k-4K ??!?!?! Every boat built in the make and model of the boat we’re buying came with a...

That I was going to be able to come and post that everything went great and the boat is going to be ours within a few days. I guess that would have been just too simple. I think it will all work out in the end but we’ll see. Everything was going ok, surveyor and mechanic doing their thing...