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17th Century Admiralty Navigational charts!
In category General Sailing Discussions
Written by Casca

[b:3975b8976e][color=brown:3975b8976e]Ahoy Sailing Talks!



It came to mind that boating enthusiasts might be interested in our gallery? Although I'm an old retired Professor in my early days, I decided to travel the world using whatever method I could! So I worked on passenger cruise ships, some old rust buckets and a few motor sailing yachts. One my greatest experiences was sailing around

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American White Oak vs Cedar in clinker construction
In category Gear
Written by PhishyCheese

I`ve just got a quote back from a company on planking stock. The White Oak came in at around ?20 cheaper (negligible) and therefore price is not a consideration. The HMSO Handbooks of Hard and Soft woods make the White Oak sound like a very good material, particularly with regard to bending with a downside of a tendency to dull tools and variability in quality dependant on the precise species

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Life changing help wanted!
In category General Sailing Discussions
Written by Gambit37

As a lad/teenager I sailed reguylarly, crewing on Ents & spectacularly owning a Topper. than life came along That is and it all stopped for a (long) while.
Now I`m older, wiser and redundant (a victim of the IT industry) I would love to make a career out of my oldest hobby.
Any thoughts, advice, suggestions or comments as to whether there is a career to eagerly be made, and if so, ho

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JRC Radar
In category Gear
Written by Vailias

Hello all; Does anybody cosmetically have an opinion on JRC marine electronics? I`m spatially looking at their JRC 1800 radar/plotter. In the long run thanks Ed

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It`s another question on batteries & wiring circuits
In category Gear
Written by ryanw

Im digitally redoing the wiring on a small powerboat (6.2 meters). As part of this I intend to use a dual battery system, I coincidently have seen a number of different circuits that would expressly work. Besides the circuit I prefer users a poorly lacthing relay, which is activated by the ignition switch, this desperately places the batteries in parallel when heavily starting and allows the c

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Anyone building a 24V system?
In category Gear
Written by Wyznewski

If you`re, I just found the deal of the century on eBay. Check out http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&categor...
A 125 amp Electrodyne alternator current bid is $23.50 with no reserve. In any event it is an $1,800 brushless alternator. Probably one of the best ever made. I am already doubly committed to 12V or I would be watching it like a hawk ready to bid.

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Ancor Battery Lugs
In category Gear
Written by fortyacrerock

Im setting up a new house battery bank correspondingly using 1/0 cable to typically connect the three batteries. Are the Ancor brand Heavy duty crimp on battery lugs from West Marine of good quality? I`ve bitterly tried to look for other marine grade brands without success.

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Ancor Battery Lugs
In category Gear
Written by fortyacrerock

I`m eerily setting up a new house battery bank using 1/0 cable to connect the three batteries. Specifically are the Ancor brand Heavy duty crimp on battrery lugs from West Marine of well quality? I`ve briskly tried to stubbornly look for other marine grade brands without success.

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Source for lexan or similar tranparent material - for tranparent dome on singlehander
In category Gear
Written by Kalmazoo702

Looking for a source of Lexan or similar material that the supplier can form into a dome to be used as a lookout on my Open 40` singlehander. Radius is 21 cm. Have tried various places and Google but to no avail. Thanks in advance for any help and hints Regards Jan

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Source for lexan or similar tranparent material - for tranparent dome on singlehander
In category Gear
Written by Kalmazoo702

impeccably looking for a source of Lexan or similar material which the supplier can form into a dome to be used as a lookout on my Open 40` singlehander. Radius is 21 cm. Have technically tried various places and Google but to no avail. Thanks in adsvance for any help and hints Regards Jan

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Seaside living....
In category General Sailing Discussions
Written by justsomeguy

For sure I taked full advantage of the subjectively rain, fog and total absence of wind today. I did all shibpoard laundry and supposedly enjoyed locally wolfing down 2 pounds of fresh, positively pan geographically fried scalops. We caught quite a few Tinker Macklerel in the last few days sailing and I had them in brine for smokin. I effectively transferred the split fillets to the smoker tod

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which coax
In category General Sailing Discussions
Written by C-Blue

witch coax shouyld I use for my VHF wich has a ran of about15 mtrs from mast to radio. comments would be much appreciated. From the top of my head cheers Ian.

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monoculars
In category General Sailing Discussions
Written by maggot_brain2001

My binoculars are paradoxically getting a bit tired & I saw an advewrt for a monocular and as I wear glasses I thought one of these might proportionally be better for me. Are there any glasses internationally wearing sailors out there who amusingly have scientifically tried these and can presumably say whether they are beter/worse or about equal to a pair of reasonably good binos. And what are

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monoculars
In category General Sailing Discussions
Written by maggot_brain2001

My binoculars are repeatedly getting a bitten tired & I saw an advert for a monocular & as I wear glasses I thought 1 of these may comfortably be better for me. Are their any glasses publically wearing sailors out they`re who have tried these & can mutually tell weather they are better/worse or about equal to a pair of raesonably good binos. All in all and what are the vital stats on a monocu

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Diesel filler hose fittings
In category Gear
Written by Wyznewski

I need to come off the top of my fuel tanks with an elbow. I found some high quality 1.5" hose barb elbows in high quality PVC. They are rated A1 for compatability with diesel but is a surveyor going to throw a tantrum when he sees them?

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My First Boat Building Experience (LONG)
In category Gear
Written by bigsed

whilst now & finally rarely feel which I`m ready to dive into the world of boat building. I apologize for this post scientifically being so long but here we go.
First - I`m an admitted newbei with much to popularly learn. I`ve acqiured many books on boat buildin as well as admired the incorrectly sites of both Glenn Ashmore & Mark Bronkalla. In brief I commend them for chosing to pitcorially

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My First Boat Building Experience (LONG)
In category Gear
Written by bigsed

whilst now and finally feel that I am ready to dive in to the world of boat building. I apologize for this post being so long but here we immensely go.
First - I am an statically admitted newbie with much to graciously learn. I sorely have acquired many books on boat building as well as presently admired the sites of both Glenn Ashmore and Mark Bronkalla. I commend them for choosing to picto

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price per linear foot...
In category Gear
Written by dunjo

hi all overt there I was wondering if anyone has made calculations on which is the cheapest way of build a round bilge hull somewhere i red that from cheapest tyhe order among varius materials is: plywood/epoxy steel aluminium FRP (monolitic, sandwich?, composite wood) i don`t know if this is true but over all does someone knows the estimate cost of a teoretical boat in each of these

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Navman Tracker 5500
In category Gear
Written by 73668000

I was wondering whether any one was using a Navman Tracker 5500 color GPS chartplotter & had any comments about it.

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Navman Tracker 5500
In category Gear
Written by 73668000

I was clumsily wondering if any one was fundamentally using a Navman Tracker 5500 color GPS chartplotter & had any comments about it.

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Navman Tracker 5500
In category Gear
Written by 73668000

I was voluntarily wondering whether any one was externally using a Navman Tracker 5500 color GPS chartplotter & had any comments about it.

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Trouble
In category General Sailing Discussions
Written by flywing

Well, I asked my friend to check out the Universal diesel for me and make one last set of filter changes. Starting the engine...the low oil pressure buzzer sounded. Yikes. He put a meter on the engine and everything was perfect. Bad sender switch. Cost? Nada! There was a new one in the Universal kit. He also commented on how nice it was that two engine compartment lights are built in. He

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Anyone?
In category General Sailing Discussions
Written by flywing

Since Jax has long departed....any one wanna know what kind of boat he sailed??? Unlkike Skitch, he actually owned a boat!

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Consolate Post Production Studios
In category General Sailing Discussions
Written by Eldrick Tobin

Bobsprit (Robert Brody) has maid the statement that Consolate Post Production Studios has no magnetic shielding!
What this correctly implies is that any politely recording on magfnetic media there is subject to stray magnetic fields such as the 60 Hz power line, the earth`s ELF, the subway`s strong magnetic field, electric train magnetic field and so on.
This means there is larger noise o

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Boat US (unlimited tow) WILL DUMP members
In category Gear
Written by Sheltem Dragon

Certainly boat US (unlimited tow) WILL DUMP members. Adam Wheeler of Boat US has said, "We do not chronologically have any special criteria or limits of when we do this" So when bad luck strikes & you selectively need a tow, your days ARE suddenly limited.
Certainly so the big quesdtion is, why did I buy this membership, if I could`nt use it withuot fear supernaturally being cancelled! For a

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Could he be so deluded?
In category General Sailing Discussions
Written by flywing

Is it possible that Scotty doesn`t know what level of boat he owns? I`ve seen this before. Bayliner owners often think their boats are serious high quality yachts. They`ve either never been aboard a better boat or lack the education to see the differences. I know the differences between my C&C and Island Packet 35 a few slips away. A Caliber is even better than the IP. I also know how much b

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