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Seems to me we all should kick in $10 and bet on what the next mishap will be at Ang's marina... Heck, there's been a fire and a "small oops" from a small freighter so far.... I will put my money on the Space Station crashing into it..... Or Freebird hitting the fuel dock as he's busy...

I posted this on the BOAT/US forum: I bought a "Stormtracker" weather radio today per the Admiral's request. Safety is number one with us. It's the one "The Weather Channel" talks about, runs on batteries or can be wound up using a crank. Cost only $39. Oh, also has a built in led...

4 boats from our marina and went to Savannah Ga 10 days ago.. And got back Sunday......... 3 are Marine Traders, the other one is a Silverton.....(size runs from 60' to 34') Just talked to our neighbor... there's is a 43(?) Marine Trader.... with small diesels...... Said they spent over...

So here it is, FATHERS DAY.... I get to do what ever I want..... Woke up about 7AM, and knew something wasn't "just right". As I stood up, realized there was a list to port that was not there last night..... Opened up the hatch to to ER. and could hear water running.... Not a good thing...

Did the 'search' for back threads that have been posted on fuel guages, of which I DO NOT have on mine.... Did find this thread... http://www.samsmarine.com/forums/showthread.php?t=883&highlight=fuel+tank+guages&page=3 On some thread, either here or on some other site I asked why shouldn't I...

I was working on a Nortic Tug when the people on the boat next to me introduced me to their son who lives in England... A very nice chap..... A few minutes later he said he saw two blue crabs on the center wooden piling and was impressed by them..... SO, I said I would catch them for him and...

Back in Nov. my 9 kw genset stopped at 3AM. I found the fanbelt had broken so replaced it and also saw my freshwater radiatior was dry. Refilled it and life was good... Till last month. The genset quit again and it had lost all the coolant and was hot..... Refilled the radiator and no...

Now this is from the boatered site........ But did get my attention... http://www.boatered.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=115234

Hopefully none of you have had to suffer thru being offline for 5 weeks... The Admiral had to have her Gall Bladder removed... And I DID feel bad for her..... BUT WE HAD NO COMPUTER... I can tell you it "Inhales"............. But we now have a new computer so now it will only take me about a...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=528769&in_page_id=1770&ct=5 England had a hurricane ?????

THIS IS OUR WEATHER FORECAST....From the local TV news website. See a short cruise Sunday before the dock Super Bowl Party.... Today Mostly Sunny Hi 78°F Tonight Partly Cloudy Lo 71°F Sunday Mostly Sunny Hi 79°F Sunday Night Slight Chc Showers Lo 72°F Monday Slight Chc Showers Hi...

Have noticed a lot of similar things about the two of them..... Maybe one is the "ghost of things past" and the other is the "ghost of things now?"

I had my genset quit about 4 AM back in Oct. Got up about 9 AM and saw the fanbelt was "gone". Put on a replacement, which was the wrong size, but got it "working" and fired the genset up, after replacing all the lost coolant. It ran for about 4 hrs and stopped again. And again it was HOT and...

Last week in the business section of my newspaper there was a writeup out of Washington DC that stated gas prices WILL hit $3.75-3.95 a gal by spring time. (Today here in Jacksonville it's $3.07 a gal) IF that was to be true, the price of diesel will also go a lot higher. I "normally" burn...

I noticed a good amount of oil under both engines in the bilge this week. In both cases, it was from the oil filters. And this is the 3 rd year in a row I have had this happened just after the first "cold snap" of the season. "cold snap is meaning temps all the way down to 40". On start...

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A man doing 92 mph in a river !!!!! http://blogs.tampabay.com/breakingnews/2007/11/man-ejected-unm.html

OK, I stole this from BoaterEd website.... But some of these are good.... http://www.fishingpixels.com/evinrude1.html

Now I don't really care about college football too much.... But was asked by my neice if I would take our boat downtown for the game last weekend.... Went down Thursday, came home Sunday.. Had a slip right next to the statium Only two of the girls did not spend time on my boat Saturday...

New Terror Threat? Small Boats By Thomas Frank,USA Today Posted: 2007-10-31 13:09:34 Filed Under: Nation News WASHINGTON (Oct. 31) — The nation's 17 million small boats are facing increased scrutiny from the Homeland Security Department, which fears they could be used in a nuclear attack or a...