Is that not the place up Bayou Chico where Dugg is afeared to bring his uninsured BSO due to all the yachty types whose homes pepper the shoreline and where yacht clubs and marinas abound? Rather risky to be caught dumping your shit overboard in such close quarters.Nice marine railway only about 10 miles east.
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They are already practicing hauling out the SEEKER!
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Sail4beer
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All of us and not you.
fukupananvil
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Not a snafu, not a shitshow, definitely a clusterfuck.
kent_island_sailor
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If this BSO retires to being a quirky floating home slowly going places on the southern ICW, it will be doing what it can do safely until a hurricane puts it ashore somewhere and No-Insurance-Dug runs off before anyone can connect him to the wreck.
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I think that Doug is well known enough due to his YouTube debacles that the proper authorities could easily locate/serve papers/arrest if he dumped that thing on the edge of a Federal waterway, which is every river, stream, estuary, intertidal zone, wetland, aquifer, reservoir, watershed, lock, pond and most puddles in the US.
Eventually the boat will be sold for scrap at a huge discount. That might be after the first major Tropical Storm he endures. The hurricane season is predicted to be light this year. He has to realize that he won’t be able to handle all the maintenance above and below the waterline and be thinking of an exit strategy, like moving in and mooching off of Betsy.
Eventually the boat will be sold for scrap at a huge discount. That might be after the first major Tropical Storm he endures. The hurricane season is predicted to be light this year. He has to realize that he won’t be able to handle all the maintenance above and below the waterline and be thinking of an exit strategy, like moving in and mooching off of Betsy.
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SV Seeker lead ingots for sale in Pensacola! The BSO is so stable that it doesn't need the diesel marinated lead. Also it looks like the Seeker website is down (sinking?) as well.
Crucial errors abound with the Seeker and Doug.
Crucial errors abound with the Seeker and Doug.
Santanasailor
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I want to learn more about this cayenne pepper and house paint shit. Should I use latex or enamel? Would Tony Chacheries work just as good? Wait! I am not wasting perfectly good Tony’s or Zataran’s on the bottom a boat. Man’s gotta eat you know. I do have a bell pepper I found in the bottom of the vegetables drawer in the bottom of the fridge that has a bit of mold on it. Maybe scrape off the mold and put it on any cuts I get from scrapping off the binnacle before I put my good house paint on it.
Anyway, why do you folks keep talking about scrapping off your binnacles and then painting them with all kinds of obnoxious pains?
Anyway, why do you folks keep talking about scrapping off your binnacles and then painting them with all kinds of obnoxious pains?
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Rasputin22
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I have seen the pepper antifouling used in the local fishing fleets in the Yucatan. I think that they just used the ubiquitous 'red lead' paint that they use when they nail/bolt the frames and planking on the traditional built boat and dumb the cayenne or whatever they have down there into the paint until the consistency is right.
Yeah, save your Tabasco and Tony's for the table. Here is my latest favorite
Yeah, save your Tabasco and Tony's for the table. Here is my latest favorite
Sail4beer
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I could never take the heat until I got Covid last year. Now I can finally enjoy spices, peppers, etc with joy!!
Heard a similar story regarding cayenne pepper and allowed my wife to convince me into trying it for one season just for laughs, on the Great Lakes. Well, we soon discovered that zebra mussels apparently have acquired a rather refined palate and went to town inviting all their evil little friends to join in the all-you-can-eat buffet happening under my boat. NEVER AGAIN! Micron CSC does the trick and my wife now keeps the herbs and spices where they belong.....in the food on my plate.
167149
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fractal mistake is the term you're after
Selling his trim ballast so soon? The BSO has so many problems, ranging from little details easily remedied like the head, up to big baked in problems like the entire hull,drive train and rigging. Dugg is like a daft wannabe researcher running an experiment with no controls, a dozen tests objects going simultaneously and then fishing around for evidence that his idea is correct and everyone else's is wrong. It is going to feel very lonely anchored out there in the middle of the "ocean" called Big Lagoon,Pensacola.
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There are worse places to be than Big Lagoon...
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So seeker Sites down but this was hilarious. he’s likely facing reality now maybe that he failed with that many years of work behind him.
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Mandelbrot of Jackassery
socalrider
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Again this forum fails to see the genius at work here.
In gas turbine engines, the shroud around the hot side of the turbine is abrasive, to provide optimal sealing for efficiency even as the blades experience thermal creep.
Doug has replicated this solution at zero cost by leveraging marine growth, which will shave his prop down so that it always seals perfectly around his prop shroud.
167149
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yes indeed................ https://mathigon.org/course/fractals/mandelbrot
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Waiting to see the stability (heeling) changes from the weight loss diet - apparently removing a couple tons of lead ingots, 14 bins of stuff, a Hypertherm 1000 plasma cutter (83 lb.), extra drill bits and grinders, etc. This is a fascinating design/build process. Who is handling the storage and sale of the ingots? The wobbly prop and 4WD drive train mods are all good with a crippled sailing ability. Sounds like a plan to me.
