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After a nearly seven-year love affair, beloved working girl Clara Mae has been properly decommissioned and sold. She has towed disabled yachts many times her size, completed countless offshore expeditions, and, has carried us thousands of miles up and down the eastern seaboard, throughout the...

2003 25 Cruiser, $58,000 (Charleston, SC) She is a great boat and I really hate to sell her, but my wife and I are planning to move on to a trawler. Photos can be found here. She has been professionally maintained since purchased new. Sale includes a Bombard AX3 Roll-up dinghy and a Honda BF2...

You would think after five years of successfully drilling, cutting, mounting and the like I would know how thick every panel from stem to stern is. So, of course, while replacing a simple light fixture over the galley that came with slightly longer screws, I drilled right on through to God's...

I know a battery isolator contains diodes that permit current to flow in one direction only. Power from an alternator and/or shore charger supplied to the power-in stud of the battery isolator flows to each of the power-out studs connected to each battery bank. Current cannot flow back from one...

Calm Seas and 74 Degrees in Charleston, SC today... time to go boating now. :smiled

I have a Raymarine ST5000 Autopilot on the Clara Mae which I use constantly. Recently Raymarine has come out with the S100 Wireless Remote which I am eyeing as a Birthday/Christmas/Anniversary present (mine). It isn't a cockpit helm but would make a reasonable second for the kind of boating I...

I recently purchased my third anchor line in less two years. The first two had worn so that my Simpson Lawrence Horizon 400 would not pick them up. Unfortunately, it will not pick up the new line I just purchased either. After a closer look, it appears the plastic Rope/Chain Gypsy is worn...

Well I've got to tell you one thing I love. That is the Welcome Box on the upper right hand side of the Home page and the little "View posts since last visit (#)" link that is in there. If you haven't already, try it. That little guy really works well... what a time saver!

For those of you in the southeast, you know it is shrimp season. Although I have not gone yet, I did see a few people casting off the dock at Mariner's Cay (Folly Beach, SC) and coming up with what looked like small lobster. I mean these are the biggest shrimp I have seen in a bucket or on a...