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Forum: Boat Ownership & Making a Living 14-04-2018, 06:42
Replies: 30
Views: 17,058
Posted By nautitrix
Re: Buying an American boat as Canadian

I have heard of others doing this but when I asked for details they did not respond.
I know that in Fl. the tax goes to the county that the boat is registered in and the address of a Marina is often...
Forum: Boat Ownership & Making a Living 13-04-2018, 19:52
Replies: 30
Views: 17,058
Posted By nautitrix
Re: Buying an American boat as Canadian

Is this vessel currently a Canadian registered vessel? I don't understand why Loosegoose had to use port permits all the way from Mass. to Florida.
There was never any problem for us. Was the boat...
Forum: Boat Ownership & Making a Living 13-04-2018, 14:13
Replies: 30
Views: 17,058
Posted By nautitrix
Re: Buying an American boat as Canadian

To the OP.
I have done exactly as you are doing and I can quickly run thru it. I am no expert but I am sitting on my American purchased, Canadian registered, boat in Virginia.
First off then the...
Forum: Emergency, Disaster and Distress 25-03-2018, 12:03
Replies: 184
Views: 19,351
Posted By nautitrix
Re: The hurricane prediction is for the strongest in 70 years

Who ever thinks there are more Polar Bears than ever before is buried up to his butt upside-down in snow. There is now, for the first recorded time, evidence that Polar Bears have mated with other...
Forum: Fishing, Recreation & Fun 14-03-2018, 15:43
Replies: 15
Views: 4,690
Posted By nautitrix
Re: Upgrading Scuba Gear - DIN or Yoke on Regulator?

Do the Bahamas fill AmeriCanadian, tanks or are they restricted to EU. equipment and specs?
Forum: General Sailing Forum 01-03-2018, 13:57
Replies: 38
Views: 5,778
Posted By nautitrix
Re: There Will Be Blood

Blood, Sweat, and Beers!! :cheers:
I do not believe in the sacrificial blood-letting. If that isn't blood on that bolt, it's just RUST!!
Forum: Cooking and Provisioning: Food & Drink 27-02-2018, 08:48
Replies: 128
Views: 25,425
Posted By nautitrix
pirate Re: Can non-drinkers be cruisers?

Working on my boat is the reason I drink :whistling:

PS. The only comment to the OP is as has been stated; share the info about your dry boat before someone has accepted your invite, if you do...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 26-02-2018, 15:29
Replies: 37
Views: 5,112
Posted By nautitrix
Re: licence vs vessel registration (Cdn terminology) for travel to US and Bahamas

I have no experience with this but some people say not to put anything on your dinghy that will identify which boat at anchor is unoccupied while the dinghy is at the dock in town.
Forum: Plumbing Systems and Fixtures 26-02-2018, 15:21
Replies: 53
Views: 7,415
Posted By nautitrix
Re: How do I avoid "discharging oil"?

I keep oil absorbent pads permanently under my engine with a pan separate from the bilge. I have absorbent snakes in the bilge as well. I have not seen any "sheen" in my rarely pumping bilge. If...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 26-02-2018, 14:44
Replies: 37
Views: 5,112
Posted By nautitrix
Re: licence vs vessel registration (Cdn terminology) for travel to US and Bahamas

From page 2 of my certificate of registry
commercial vessels must put their name on both sides of the bow.
For pleasure craft, name and port of registry, "both must be marked on some clearly...
Forum: Dollars & Cents 18-02-2018, 13:04
Replies: 16
Views: 4,339
Posted By nautitrix
Re: Boat used as cottage for 10 years

Every boat in central Canada spends 7-8 months on the hard every year as the "cottage" season is very short. Unlike in California and much of the Pacific Northwest, winter is a time of...
Forum: Cooking and Provisioning: Food & Drink 17-02-2018, 11:51
Replies: 224
Rum
Views: 65,264
Posted By nautitrix
Re: Rum

Reminds me of our favourite pancake syrup, heat, almost to a boil, blueberries in Maple syrup, let simmer 5 minutes, stand until warm as hot syrup can burn badly you can add dark rum while simmering...
Forum: Cooking and Provisioning: Food & Drink 17-02-2018, 11:42
Replies: 224
Rum
Views: 65,264
Posted By nautitrix
Re: Rum

In the US. right now we're onto Cruz 151 $23 per bottle Cant get it back home but it would come in at $54 Canadian. Past favourites were Appletons but it started tasting like varnish 2 years ago,...
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 09-02-2018, 16:21
Replies: 34
Views: 5,886
Posted By nautitrix
Re: One alternator, solar panels, and 2 banks

I'm not sure if anyone is still on this thread but here goes an example of my own confusion: I want to bump my house up to two, two battery banks, and charge the starter battery with a dc-dc...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 05-02-2018, 20:59
Replies: 59
Views: 6,354
Posted By nautitrix
Re: Refit...Why So Slow?

MISSION CREEP As my loving wife says "it's not that three things need to be done to do one job, it's that each of those three things need three things done before you can get to the three things that...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 02-02-2018, 18:42
Replies: 26
Views: 7,336
Posted By nautitrix
Re: Low Tide sitting on keel ?

What model, size, and year of Hunter was it. Did the dimples appear before the boat was moved? What is your frame of reference for "significant"? Were any internal bulkheads displaced? Were the...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 02-02-2018, 09:41
Replies: 13
Views: 2,130
Posted By nautitrix
Re: Propane system works 50%??

I have some experience with this on my camper and other propane appliances I own. I have used that experience to save myself from experiencing it on my boat.
When you laid the boat up at the end of...
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 31-01-2018, 16:56
Replies: 45
Views: 10,602
Posted By nautitrix
Re: where is your windlass battery?

I am truly impressed with the lively and informative response here. There has been a rich diversity of ideas and discourse on what works and why. The information presented to me has helped in a way...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 31-01-2018, 11:38
Replies: 26
Views: 7,336
Posted By nautitrix
Re: Low Tide sitting on keel ?

While reviewing this, the tilting of the keel to raise it is a classic for getting off a bank so it is a very good suggestion. I would also ask you to verify that all your tankage is empty. Several...
Forum: Anchoring & Mooring 31-01-2018, 06:53
Replies: 45
Views: 10,602
Posted By nautitrix
where is your windlass battery?

Hello All
I am into a windlass project but stumped by wether to put a battery under the bow and charge it with an echo charger or run #2 wire through the boat to the windlass. Assuming that all is...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 31-01-2018, 06:26
Replies: 26
Views: 7,336
Posted By nautitrix
Re: Low Tide sitting on keel ?

I am currently living aboard a hunter 37c that softly goes aground in the mud every now and then on an extremely low tide. The boat does not fall off to one side or the other and the water line...
Forum: Navigation 14-01-2018, 10:37
Replies: 99
Views: 15,047
Posted By nautitrix
Re: great dismal swamp in winter

Well we have gone through some interesting effects of weather in the past week.
Has anyone got any new info on whether (weather) the ice is off of the swamp or the A&C canal.
There are people...
Forum: Navigation 07-01-2018, 19:50
Replies: 99
Views: 15,047
Posted By nautitrix
Re: great dismal swamp in winter

If I hunker down now will the soon to come spring bring more water, you a funny guy:thumb:
Forum: Navigation 07-01-2018, 18:56
Replies: 99
Views: 15,047
Posted By nautitrix
Re: great dismal swamp in winter

BOAT DRIVER
I thank you from the bottom of my heart for such a reasoned and professional response. I am not sculling but working my way south with some experience and I do not believe I have ever...
Forum: Navigation 07-01-2018, 13:13
Replies: 99
Views: 15,047
Posted By nautitrix
Re: great dismal swamp in winter

While there is some science to the thought of older boats being "brittle" due to a higher resin to glass ratio than modern boats, the cored hulls of a "modern boat"
certainly may be far more...
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