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How about a removable handle for a valve that does not have room to move? Or the valve handle for the head discharge to keep the coast guard happy?

RonR Thanks for your thoughts. I understand the difficulty of selling. Try selling a 54' steel sailboat from 1986. It was that experience that taught me that you shouldn't have more into a boat than you are willing to loose. From one perspective that makes the Bayliners very attractive. For...

I hadn't really thought about the Bayliner 32s. I'll look at those. Thanks

From having cut up a home heating oil tank. The sparks from a grinder or cutoff wheel will ignite diesel. But without atomization diesel will not explode like gas. I have cut into several tanks that could no be emptied completely, I drilled a hole into the tank, and then using a metal cutting...

poly vs mono Nwboater If you will have any shadows on you panels you will get better performance from panels where the cells are wired in parallel. Or, at least shorter chains of cells in series. With cells wired in series, as soon as one of the cells is shadowed, the rest in that string will...

Legality Earlier in this thread somone said "First fuel tanks must be certified as fuel tanks, thickness, baffles and pressure testing, maybe other things that I am not remembering right now. They have to have approved fuel hose for fill, vent, supply and return. You would have to add supply...

Since we decided go cruising again I've been thinking about the slow vs fast question. The Caribbean was almost always 8 by 8 seas. Not a lot of fun to be on motoring without sails and somehow the wind was always on the nose. As a result we were mostly destination cruisers spending a few...

Thanks everyone for your input. Very helpful.

Comodave, OldDan, Ron Thanks for the replies. We really would like to get just one boat and stick with it, as apposed to trading up. The trailerable boat would allow us to pull the boat in the winter for maintenance. It would allow us to drop the boat in the water closer to new cruising...

All, About 10 years ago, our family of 4 spent a few years cruising around the Caribbean on a 54ft steel sailboat. Now my wife and I are looking towards retirement (in a few years) and another boating adventure. The plan is to cruise the San Juan and Gulf Islands for a while then move north...