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Blue Note is hauled out for the year- kind of a sad time as I always wish I'd done more with her, although she does get out of the slip every two weeks and get run around to keep the bottom clean. This winters' list includes some teak refinishing, cleaning all the canvas up, and a few other odds...

Anyone on this forum a veteran of Atlantic crossings by ship? I am thinking about taking my two older godchildren (ages 30 and 25) on a crossing next summer and wonder if anyone here has any suggestions as to what ships they've been on, and any advice. I've always wanted to do this and figure I...

Spent a few hours today. Astonishingly, most all the big names I recall from just a few years aqo are gone. Nothing from Hatteras, nothing from Bertram, ONE Cabo (a 40ft express boat) Viking was there with convertibles in the 50+ range. Buddy David, too- with a little boat in the 30 foot range...

Todd Gloucester helm chair, just taken off my Hatteras in favor of a new Pompanette helm seat. Todd chair has spider/slider on it. All in good shape, I will clean up and post photos. This is too big to ship, pick it up locally in Annapolis, MD. $200 obo. It's about a year old, no more than one...

I could have sworn I started a thread about this, but maybe not; I can't find it. In any case, here we go: Last summer I took the trumpets off my Raritan/Fiamm airhorns to paint the boat. When I put them back on, the horns no longer worked. The compressor worked, blew air and all, no problem...

There is an item on the Island Free Press news feed about this; boat is a charter yacht named Lady Windridge, which was taking on water about 14 miles from Ocracoke. Evidently they took an injured crew member off in a basket as well. I imagine there will be more details tomorrow. The video of...

There really is a book on doing this, written by a retired ocean master named John Trimmer, and published by Cornell Maritime Press, which is now out of print. Copies of it are going for as much as five hundred dollars. Captain Trimmer wrote it to enlighten folks like ourselves, some of whom...

While trolling around for something else, I discovered that there is a company called Lewco which makes marine chargers in 32 vdc. (also 12, 24 and 36, I think) I don't know these guys and haven't seen their products, but from time to time we've had questions about 32vdc chargers for older...

'85 45 convertible Series II, an early boat with V-berth, in FL for 69K....not a bad looking boat and allegedly 500 hrs SMOH. Emailed to me by a friend this morning. I've seen them this cheap, but not in this shape. Might be a good deal for someone here......

I'm having trouble with my Standard Horizon depth sounder; this is a free standing unit which is coupled only to a repeater at the downstairs helm. The problem is that it reads erratically- sometimes I get accurate depth information, based on local knowledge and chart soundings, other times I...

This question is on behalf of friends who own a Rampage sportfishing boat that they keep at Ocean City, MD. The boat was equipped from new with an aluminum tower, which I imagine is anodized, and they are having trouble keeping it looking good. What are the best products for cleaning and shining...

Does anyone have a Northstar 6000i or 6100i 10.4" display head that they don't need and would like to sell to me? Mine quit working yesterday. I have an 8.4" display that I can swap in, which may work, but would like to keep the Northstar system as I am used to it and like the way it works. I...

Almost finished with the project of installing a TV on Blue Note. Last year my friend Dean Chamberlain built a cabinet for a television, from teak and leftover Afromosia plywood. Turns out it will JUST accommodate a modern 32" flat screen television. And the wall mount for it. There is an area...

Blue Note went back to her usual residence for the season. Ran like a top, smooth and sweet cruise at 25 knots. The amount of crap spit out of the exhausts was impressive, even after I had flushed the HEs, after the acid bath they got. She does run cooler- at this time of year, the thermostat is...

Well, folks, change your engine zincs before they fall apart and you have to take the HE apart to get all the fragments out. Ask me how I know. If this post helps ONE Hatteras owner avoid the current unpleasantness, the embarrassment will be well worth it. What a pain this is.

Bluewater has a 53 JB for sale ("Shorter Pie") which has no engines. I don't think I've seen this kind of listing before, and it makes me wonder what happened to her. In some photos, the back bulkhead is boarded up. Weird. Anyone know the story on this boat?

With my new engines now several years old, and with the seawater pumps not getting any newer, I decided to replace them with improved ones from Seaboard Marine. It turns out that unless you build your own engine mounting system which provides enough room for this procedure, you have to remove...

I've found a synthetic oil that is approved for use in marine diesels; Mobilgard 1 SHC, comes in 40wt only. A friend out in CA has been running it in Cummins powered generator sets with very good results. Since my Cummins engines are broken in, but don't have many hours yet, I'm going to try it...

Hatteras 1510 Club Expands The Hatteras 1510 Club has recently announced a name change to The Hatteras Classic Club. The hope is to broaden our membership to include owners and enthusiasts of all Hatteras Yachts. Not just those with a beam of 15’10’, a requirement of the...

Although I've located a sound shield for my NL generator set at a terrific price, it's not clear that there's going to be room for it. The exhaust output from the turbocharger outlet on the port engine comes far enough into the middle of the engine room that I don't think the sound shield will...