Posted on 11/25/2013 7:47:39 AM PST by Travis McGee
Yep, I’d move to a trawler or the right houseboat in a second. I use houseboat in the essay to avoid a lot of boring technical nautical jargon. Even landlubbers “get” the houseboat concept. Trawlers take more explanation but fit that middle ground, air and water draft wise.
I have a 24ft formula with twin mercruiser 350’s I am selling becasaue, quite frankly, it scares the crap out me it is so fast.
It was a total restoration job and I loved every moment of it. I am now lookng at a 30 ft twin engine Imp with 2 bedrooms a kitchen and toilet and shower.
Try a catamaran, separate hulls.
Finally somebody caught it!
I’ll bet it scares you! Those twin 350s must have to be shoehorned into a 24 footer with grease?
I’ve often watched the Camden cruise schooners sailing by when I’ve been out in the bay. Notably the Victory Chimes.
Back when I was younger there was the Dark Harbor Inn in Gilkey Harbor, and the Windjammers used to anchor off it once a week, so everyone could go ashore and visit the bar.
They still sometimes stop for the night in the harbor—but there’s no longer a bar.
When I win the lottery
http://youtube.com/watch?v=88GW-XxouaE
http://youtube.com/watch?v=knyiqZn5-Xw
Not too tight at all- they look and fit perfectrly
going to mirror the engine compartment next
In 1985 I singlehanded a 33 Hans Christian sloop from Ventura Ca to Hawaii and back
17 days to get there, 25 to get back
Great link. I just spent five hours reading their first year’s journal.
I finished it last summer, though I’m thinking about taking off part of the paint job and doing something different. It’s a 260 Fisherman, a good solid boat, and I think as good or better now than when it was new. I got it because I wanted to restore a boat, one that was large enough to give me a challenge. A sailboat is my goal, but the way things are going, I might not get there.
****It depends on how often you seek out the customs people to present them. They don’t “ask,” they don’t know you are within a thousand miles until you walk up to some office in a city and tell them.****
That might change if the SHTF, but I don’t believe the governments of the world are going to be expending many resources scouring the ocean for strays. Getting to know where to get supplies with minimal contact from other people sounds easy enough with some experience.
> If you are a Millennial who feels that the Land of Opportunity has at least temporarily suspended the offer, leaving you stranded in somewhat less-than-hoped-for circumstances, I’m writing this for you.
One more time:
Millennials in the Workplace
http://www.peekinthewell.net/blog/millennials-in-the-workplace/
Green cove...where everyone gets hauled out, sure...a friend of mine is working on a boat there now.
if you take a sip of rum and spit it into their gills, it puts them into a permanent coma, no matter how big the fish.
I like to clean the fish right away and sometimes I put it into a bucket of ocean water w extra salt added to “brine” the fish for a half hour before replacing the salt water w fresh water, then draining b4 cooking-this takes any fishy taste away. Works really well with sharks and rays, when you realize a stingray tastes just like $200 of scallops you start hunting for them.
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