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C-Brats, It is that time of the year again. April 21 the Lucky Fin will again head for Palm Beach. This time with a new Ranger that has done 500 miles of testing. Everything is A-Ok. Solar panels worked great, Got the fuel filler solution, She is washed and polished setting in Mims , Florida. I...

Torklift in Kent , Washington. I have used their hitch extentions for years. The super hitch. will handle 10,000 lbs with hitch weight of 1000 lbs. Plus built anything you want to go with it. See my album in Tugnuts. captd

Any Brats Interested, for the 1st part of April, in a trip to the islands? The Lucky Finn is ready to go. We will depart from Palm Beach after hanging out around Peanut island for a good weather window. We will plan on about 60 days. :D captd

My idea is if you have two engines or a get along home system it may pay to pass on the insurance, but since now owning a single engine, Sea tow saved my bacon twice. The last bill was $1200 . the one before that was about $500. Roadside would have saved me $500 a couple years ago. That pays a...

Typical conversation heading down the intercoastal waterway: My wife shouting! "Boat coming up on your port side" me explaining. " I can't drive the boat behind me" There are signals you are suppose to use when passing on the port and starboard. What are they? Boaters rarely signal at...

Correct me if I am wrong........If a dingy is a tender for a bigger boat you don't need to have it registered. One of my earlier boats was documented and the issue arose. Marine patrol clarified for me. Unless you are using it to fish with you don't need registration, motor or not. I know some...

To wet your imagination: Fishing out of Prince of Wales for halibut. I was using a double # 9 circle hooks. Top one on a slide. We were catching 20 to 30 pounders and turning them loose. Trying to detach one while hanging it over the side the slider hook swung around and hooked the end of my...

Lots of salty old boaters want everyone to get some kind of boating license. They bitch about the green horns not knowing what the hell they are doing out on the water. I know one Senator that is a medical doctor. I wonder if he would give up his sheep skin because he is politician. I am...

Things may have changed. I took my tests in New Orleans in about 1993. Sea schools couldn't give the tests in those days. I studied and memorized on my own. I did one of those mail order lessons for $29.00. I did use the Navy , fishing boat and canoes to get in my time. I had no documentation...

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The main thing is that the Bahamas is only about 60 miles. Once you are on the banks you are quite safe. The C-Dory is a piece of cake on the banks. With proper charts and GPS It is zero problems. The Ranger cannot get into some of the hurricane holes that the C-Dory can. That being said, 24 to...

Anything on the water counts. Canoe, Kayak, whatever. Out fishing, paddling , rowing. Time in the Navy, 4 hours counts as a day. Very loose on your record keeping. Now days it is very easy. Use to be you had to go to the Coast Guard and spend three days or so of testing. The test was different...

http://norwall.com/index.php?cPath=17_2 ... agodD3YlCg Here is a good place to buy those Guardian generators. With free shipping. The models have changed since I bought mine. I hooked it up myself. It is not hard.. Good luck captd

A generator you might consider is a 16,000 watt Guardian. Instead of $7000 plus it would be about $3400. It comes with the automatic switch which is worth about $400. Which you must put in the line. It starts its self every week at the time of your choosing. Runs for twenty minutes and shuts...

To find a loan that does not have a prepayment penalty would be really tough to find. Most have a two year penalty clause. That is because they pay boat loan companies fees to write the paper. Bank of America's web site states it will make boat loans direct, but their rates are a couple points...

Congrats!!! Not an easy thing to do. It does give you the right to charge all your fishing buddies a few bucks. Course thats for gas , lunch and a few other tokens of appreciation. There should be a little something for boat depreciation. :thup :beer :beer :beer captd Should also give you...

If I toyo once I toyo a thousand times. Thats how I remember what kind of tires to buy. Starting in about 1970 we had a fleet of cars ( over 50) that run 24 hours a day in Washington state, California, Colorado and Georgia. We tried the cheapest tires first. It was quickly proven that was the...

Bob, We have a good friend in Panama City. His home is right on St Andrews Bay. In the summer at low tide he has to wade out to his little 12 ft boat. That is if there is a enough water to wade into. He just pulls the boat in and parks it in his yard on the trailer for the winter. Nice spot...

Good thread. I agree 99% with Bob. I bite on the printed word. Printed word being, no weight in the boat at all. No water , no fuel, no girls, no beer. and one little skinny guy running the boat, 20 knots. But my wife and I thought it was cute. The 1% I would disagree with Bob is, it still had...