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For the North Gulf Hatteri: Six years ago today Katrina made landfall, coming in perpendicular to the shoreline and West of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The East Mississippi Gulf Coast had only a 16' surge, much less than our neighbors to the West. A few of the Photos taken in Pascagoula...

Lilly Marie came with the KVH, connected to two tv's but after 2 years, I noted that when we are on the boat, we are busy with other things and just do not get around to watching much TV. The dome is in the upper left of the photo, sitting there unused. I just removed the whole system...

Feeling frustrated with the whole political/economic situation, and tired of "popular wisdom", I sent some money to the candidate whose expressed views most closely matched my own "extremist" views. (Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice _ B Goldwater) It made me feel a little better...

The boat came with an ICOM 504 connected to the Garmin plotter. Other than thinking the red distress button was a nice feature and finding the VHF read out showing my lat/lon interesting, I did not give it much thought, until I came across an article in an old issue of Practical Sailor. I did...

The old Danforth dome was clouded making the FB compass useless. It could not be removed without taking the steering wheel off. It was a major undertaking to remove the FB steering wheel. Thanks for the advice, but neither Penetrating Blaster, nor heat, nor hammer taps would break it loose...

I recently started using a small Guardian/Fortress anchor with 1/2 white poly line to anchor the stern to the beach. The anchor is light enough to carry while swimming to and from the beach and the line is light enough to float and reduce the risk of rope in the wheel. The rode does not have...

The Princess stove is amazingly slow to boil water, and while the burners get hot, they never actually glow even when set on high. Any suggestions on the cause and fix for this? Thanks, Vincent

Two years ago U-Line very graciously replaced the compressor for the ice maker under warranty. The ice maker is now 6+ years old and the coils corroded through. I don't think I will be so fortunate this time and I have given thought to just how much I use the ice maker. My conclusion is not...

When the inflatable dingy is pulled up on its davits on the swim platform, the dingy blocks the stern light mounted on the transom. I mounted an LED stern light to the weather board above the transom about 2 feet above the old light and it works fine. However when the lower stern light is not...

It took a while but I found the cause for the wet carpet in the aft head. The P-trap had corroded through, but like most of my boat repairs, it was not so simple to fix. There was not enough room between the bottom of the trap and the muffler below it. I had to remove the sink to get the trap...

The boat came with a grey carpet covering the aft deck. I never cared for it and removed it, but the white deck shows dirt all too quickly. 1/2 inch thick teak flooring ripped into 2.2 cm wide strips held together with epoxy and 3/4" ss brads. A 4'x5' section weighs less than 20#. I am...

Suggestions please regarding my leaking flare fittings at the water heater. The copper flare fittings at the heater leaked when I reconnected them. I smoothed the surfaces with 600 grit wet/dry paper and they dripped, much less but still some. I disconnected, sanded some more and tried again...

It took a bottle jack to raise the deck enough to slide it out and once out the amount of scale inside was impressive. As always there are still a few snags. The 6 gal Whirlpool from Lowes is a 1/2" or so taller and I will have to cut out and lower the support floor; however the side inlet...

And how do you remove them. No, this is not a political post. Three of the 4 fasteners holding the FB ladder have come loose, but they will not unscrew or screw back. I assume the upper fasterner which looks like a "screw" is in fact a nut, in the fashion of a screw with a hollow threaded end...

Last night I did some spring cleaning/maintenance with a couple of 5 hp kicker outboards. They had been sitting up a while, I drained the syrupy stuff out of the carb bowls, emptied the remote tanks contents into a storage can and put fresh gas and Seafoam in the engine tank and got both...

We installed the aft section of the swim platform yesterday and went for an island trip. The platform worked fine and looks pretty good.

One of our nephews and two of his friends came over to the boat yesterday at Sand Island and conducted extensive test, concluding that the FB is more useful for important functions as documented below. We had a gread day on the water and did not head home until after dark. The view...

Friends from Alpena Michigan came to Pascagoula yesterday and brought this new evidence of Hatteras Snobbery. So it is not just a Southern Thing.

Our last time out the canvas and vinyl and zippers did not do so well in the March winds. I started thinking about removable plexiglass panels for the aft deck for the space between the handrail and hardtop. Which stiff clear material will hold up best to UV and handling?

While crawling around the transom in order to re-bolt the swim platform brackets I managed to break the rather dainty white nylon rod which connects the rudder arm to an arm on a sensor. It is a linkage about 18" long and 1/8 diameter. It is threaded to allow a small amount of adjustment...