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Its hard to fill 20 mins of airtime when its just an Italian parade.
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Thanks @penumbra, I know so little about this stuff . So with sat phones becoming fairly 'common' , is there any need for a SSB anymore? or is it becoming nastalgia where cruisers listen to the morning report in harbor because thats what they do?
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what is a 'clipped' ham radio?
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I have a 2.3hp 4cycle Honda , its been nothing short of amazing. 24ft shark , pushed it 20 miles between race venues, runs all day just fine. no reverse gear is only handicap
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Do I want a chartplotter and wind instrument? Budget.
crankcall replied to 2airishuman's topic in Cruising Anarchy
I chose a Garmin echomap plus 75, touchscreen/button combo plotter, $700 cdn . My reasoning, can be left out in any weather, doesn't eat the battery badly, sunlight visible. Preprograming is pretty good, lot of built in stuff like "find me a gas dock" if your in an odd place. I really like the track function, if you wind you way into a really tight anchorage or back bay you can follow a 'known' safe track back out. Touchscreen and buttons means it still works on a gloves on day, I use it for about 15% of its capabilities, came with some goofy sonar thing for fishing and a bottom camera which I left in the box. Its not integrated into the other instruments , it could be but for what I'm doing , lake sailing it doesn't need to be -
Does it need to be pretty?? Buy a Hobart or other commercial restaurant stove, actually quite reasonable for the price and parts are available 25yrs later. Buddy has a 1 yr old Wolf, service guy has been there three times in a year. $12,000. CDN kitchen stove , (that's $875.US) and its down for a week at a time.
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Anyone we know go missing in Darwin Australia recently?
crankcall replied to Windward's topic in General Anarchy
The fisherman gave him a beer and called an ambulance, this is why I love Australia . -
is it unsafe or less safe? I'd be happy to be a new guy and get a hand me down , it if was still safe just not state of the art. But giving unsafe would be really bad form. these days what are the chances you'd be named co-defendant should anything awful happen? That's what scares me more.
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most shops here at least stock the basics, and Gill still seems to have red in the catalog, where are you located that shops dont keep pants and jackets?
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Flooded Kitchen Anarchy 3.2.a - gas or electric/gas combo
crankcall replied to Borax Johnson's topic in General Anarchy
I use a gas top, electric wall oven. The electric oven is a moist heat where the gas is a very dry heat, the electric oven produces much better results most of the time. I had a gas oven and went to electric. The 5 burner gas top is hard to beat, -
I would go mast head unless you have a really big boat and one of those big stainless posts on the stern , but I would have a spare antennea and enough wire to tie in , in the unfortunate event the mast falls down.
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would this be why most countries don't allow firearms on vessels ??
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this pic needs a thread of it's own... have at it
crankcall replied to Grande Mastere Dreade's topic in Sailing Anarchy
here on Gilligan's Island !! -
We looked at them before we bought our Thermador, I was told by the Thor salesman "you don't want that" , so i didnt, the Thermador he said would fit into my granite opening did not so there is that.... My friend bought the Thor 6 burner stove with oven and installed it in his cottage, he has a Wolf at home. The Thor at $1659 CDN is as nice as his $9,859 Wolf according to him (more importantly his wife)
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94 days to go..... will Perez get a seat? does Albon keep in with "thai " money? Does Lewis take a pay cut? Will Kimi appear on GrandTour??