Forum: Boat Buyers & Sellers Forum
04-11-2012
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Replies: 4
Views: 462
Advice on diesel engines and Lagoon 440s
Actually I need advice in two areas
First, knowing (or believing) that marine diesel engines are designed and built very conservatively, how many hours on a used diesel engine before you can say...
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Forum: Good Old Boat
04-08-2012
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Replies: 10
Views: 14,414
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Forum: General Discussion (sailing related)
04-03-2012
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Replies: 41
Views: 3,183
Re: What goes in your ship's log?
Yup. It seems to me that litigaphobia drives the American psyche. I live in Hungary and mainly sail the Adriatic. When it comes to safety, I wish the Croatians were a little more frightened of being...
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Forum: General Discussion (sailing related)
04-02-2012
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Replies: 41
Views: 3,183
Re: What goes in your ship's log?
Being somewhat naive, I was not aware that there were so many law suits and prosecutions against yacht owners and skippers that it is more important to maintain a ship's log for legal purposes than...
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Forum: Good Old Boat
04-02-2012
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Replies: 10
Views: 14,414
Re: Navigating locks
Went through some locks in Italy and France recently. Interesting experience. We communicated with the lock operators by pulling on a rubber tube to signal our desires. The operators signaled back...
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Forum: General Discussion (sailing related)
04-01-2012
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Replies: 41
Views: 3,183
Re: What goes in your ship's log?
I really like the idea. Numerical entries are particularly subject to massive errors. When you plot the barometric pressure on a graph the errors become obvious and trends require no imagination at...
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Forum: Introduce Yourself
03-30-2012
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Replies: 3,055
Views: 225,565
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Forum: Introduce Yourself
01-30-2012
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Replies: 3,055
Views: 225,565
American living in Europe
I am an enthusiastic sailor who has been sailing for many years, but wish I had sailed more. I hold numerous licenses and certificates -- three from US Sailing, a Croatian Skipper license, an...
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