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... don't generally need to sell assets at fire-sale prices. They usually have enough wealth to hold onto assets and wait until the value recovers. We saw this with housing as the impact as disproportionately on the lower/mid end of market. The wealthy areas did not fall as much because...

I believe IIRC that HF generator/inverter manuals want you to startup and run them every 90 days ( and run for 30 minute minimum). I left it for about 9 months without starting, and it started up albeit after a few tries. K

I ended up buying the HF 3500 inverter on sale. I have used it a couple of times for the home which was actually the primary need (fire season, mandatory shutdowns). I was "thinking" of using on the cd25 as well, but frankly I think it is just too heavy. So probably will be the HF 2000...

White-collar, rich, or retired: You kept your job, the stock market is not in a death spiral, you work from home and love it. Of course keep it this way even if actual mortality rates continue to decline as more get tested and the denominator increases. Maybe you can buy out some SOB and...

Stanford, ucla, and usc studies all seem to indicate that covid was more widespread than originally thought and hence the denominator is getting larger and larger so that mortality rate is going down significantly. I think this is more of a class issue now. Those who are wealthy...

You can look at stat agencies for past pandemics and flu seasons. Just look at the number for comparison to what we are seeing with covid-19 today. https://www.statnews.com/2018/09/26/cdc ... hs-winter/ And - select your country for covid 19. https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/26/cov ...

Hunkering down as well - 3 weeks not out of the house except for dog walks. Was well prepared except for "active yeast" so substituting with baking soda and lemon juice. We have lemon trees so are good there. May run low on flour soon as well. Finally went out yesterday to an ACE hardware...

The demarcation of this as "Chinese" flu has more to do with the fact that China exists in a closed world with the tacit support of most NGOs/multi-nationals as well as, surprise, the WHOl. Despicable what the WHO was saying through this entire process, when they absolutely new better. This...

Staggering incompetence. Sure - this is an emergency situation but that is why all agencies are supposed to have contingency plans and be able to work business as close to normal as possible. Of course you can have technical difficulties, but there should have been tests/trials well before...

Ok - I did check the spark plugs and they look fine. Not wet at all, etc... Oil in dipstick looked fine as well - no water/milky anything. I did a compression test on all four cylinders and they were all about 125 so no differences. When I started the motor, my ir heat temp guage showed max up...

And will look more closely at the oil... thx

The pic and video are after cruising at about 4000 rpm (18kn) for about an hour. There is no temp gauge as far as I can tell on the boat but I assume a high temp warning at the ignition would light up or sound. I guess I can hit the head and block with an ir temp gauge and see if there is a...

I started noticing the port engine exhaust above the water line puffing some white smoke and sputtering water. Motor seems to run fine - no alarms going off that I can tell and seems to start fine, and run find at idle and at WOT. CD25, 2006, port 850 hrs, starboard 606 hrs, 2006 BF90A...

Please sign up Tessa for this trip. Tess is berthed out of Pittsburg. Thanks! Karl _________________

Hi - Any thoughts on the reliability of predator engine generators? I know a lot of folks here use the Hondas and I am sure they are quite reliable. But seems to be a good deal on comparable off-brand model - much cheaper if the comparison is accurate. Not sure if this is "too much"...

Thanks everyone. Will go the split boot route to take care of it... Thanks for the links as well.

Not sure what this is called, but on mine the rubber material is no longer there and there is basically an open hole. I assume it prevents water intrusion to the stern area by clamping around the voltage lines and steering lines. The pic is from Thataway as I forgot to grab a pic while on the...

Good info on the hatches. May give that a try, but I do notice that the main leaking during wash-down is because my scuppers (2006 CD25) don't drain very fast, particularly the starboard side. And, it is clear that the starboard floor hatch is beyond repair (squeaks when you step on it, and...

We simply could not turn the ratchet counter clockwise at all. So we ended up just manually hauling in the anchor bit by bit until we could free it. Maybe attaching a come-along to the "cable" and pulling the load "off" the winch a bit would have unstuck it? Strange...

Had an issue this weekend. Anchor dragged into a cable at about 35' (SF delta). Noticed an issue pulling up as it got very slow. Eventually popped the breaker. Found the breaker (new to boat). But, got out the hand crank and tried to get it up. We able, finally, using the boat hook and two...