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Forum: Our Community 18-12-2020, 07:44
Replies: 144
Views: 24,626
Posted By exMaggieDrum
Re: Yacht Wear: Anybody Dress Like This?

It was early 1979 and I got my dream job after college in Miami. I lived in Coconut Grove right across the street from the Miami City Hall. The Miami Yacht Club was next door to that.


I knew...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 12-12-2020, 10:35
Replies: 61
Views: 7,531
Posted By exMaggieDrum
Re: Reality of switching to making a living as a tradesman on sailboats?

I did exactly that. I was a white collar desk jockey until I was 50. I was able to "retire" from that but needed to make some money to keep going. And I didn't know anything, repeat anything,...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 12-12-2020, 10:20
Replies: 156
Views: 20,624
Posted By exMaggieDrum
Re: Tips for long-term winter sailing

A ton of good advice in the thread. I'll just emphasize what helped us on long cold passages. But all short passages feel long when you are shaking from the cold.


Someone mentioned merlino...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 16-11-2020, 13:37
Replies: 41
Views: 8,099
Posted By exMaggieDrum
Re: Edson Steering Failure Be Warned

Last year I was looking for an additional quadrant for a new autopilot since I couldn't use the one used by the cable and pulley with an Edison binnacle. I'm not 100% sure, but 99.9%, that this was...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 23-10-2020, 10:31
Replies: 101
Views: 17,090
Posted By exMaggieDrum
Re: That little something that makes life easier

Finally, on page 4 someone mentioned a propane gas grill hanging off the rails. It keeps a lot of the heat out of the galley and we love grilled foods. One time up by Lund, BC, Canada we had our...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 21-09-2020, 09:37
Replies: 150
Views: 26,963
Posted By exMaggieDrum
Re: We were attacked by Orcas!!!

I know that Wikipedia is widely criticized for not having the best info but much of this article we could verify by being there.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_(killer_whale)

...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 05-09-2020, 09:39
Replies: 31
Views: 15,521
Posted By exMaggieDrum
Re: Should you paint the bilge?

One consideration: If you will be painting a part of the bilge that is sloped and you will need to stand on, or in some cases sit or knell on, I have found that a lot of bilge type paints are...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 05-09-2020, 09:34
Replies: 44
Views: 17,664
Posted By exMaggieDrum
Re: Advice requested on these 4 blue water yachts for a circumnavigation

There are pros and cons for sloops versus ketches. Having had both I can appreciate many of the differences. We put 15,000nm on a ketch and we really liked the smaller mainsail and more options for...
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 05-09-2020, 09:27
Replies: 152
Views: 17,436
Posted By exMaggieDrum
Re: Why is the CG Unintelligible When They are on the Radio?

I've experienced this many, many times listening to USCG broadcasts, usually when they are made to a wide area. Sometime, and I mean sometimes only, they do speak slow enough for you to understand...
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 31-08-2020, 11:32
Replies: 67
Views: 7,915
Posted By exMaggieDrum
Re: What do you do different offshore?

We went down the Pacific Coast and on to Mexico double handing. This was relatively easy as at most you would have two nights before being able to find a port to reprovision, make repairs, refuel,...
Forum: COVID-19 | Containment Area 24-08-2020, 09:33
Replies: 315
Views: 21,399
Posted By exMaggieDrum
Re: US / Canada border restrictions predictions...

I'm going to be guilty of remembering something about this wrong but here goes anyway.


From what I have read several places, it is OK for US citizens (and other citizens from other countries in...
Forum: Lithium Power Systems 17-08-2020, 09:01
Replies: 116
Views: 20,887
Posted By exMaggieDrum
Re: Is Lithium Worth it?

I can't read the other replies for right now. Some will say the same thing I will say here.


The cost of the lithium batteries are one issue. The bigger, and more time consuming and may be...
Forum: Seamanship & Boat Handling 14-08-2020, 13:37
Replies: 255
Views: 30,965
Posted By exMaggieDrum
Re: Does anyone ever choose to weather storms offshore anymore?

Of course it depends on the magnitude of the storm and if it will significant rotation so that you will have major significant wind shifts. But there not all anchorages are the same. And you don't...
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 07-08-2020, 14:38
Replies: 34
Views: 3,105
Posted By exMaggieDrum
Re: 60A or higher controller

The Outback units have a digital display and you can see the amps output. I suspect the Victron would have that too but don't know.
Forum: Americas 07-08-2020, 14:32
Replies: 40
Views: 4,338
Posted By exMaggieDrum
Re: Broken down in Anacortes with cooling issue, help appreciated

I did this on the raw water intake to my head toilet pump and I don't know if it would be good to to for the raw water intake for the engine.


I put a bronze T fitting onto the output of the...
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 05-08-2020, 09:25
Replies: 34
Views: 3,105
Posted By exMaggieDrum
Re: 60A or higher controller

My boat came with a 60A Outback Flexmax solar charge controller. The PO had put it in an aft lazerette just under the hatch, which was a potential wet spot as it was directly under the hatch on the...
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 04-08-2020, 09:18
Replies: 113
Views: 11,968
Posted By exMaggieDrum
Re: Electrical Fire - Seeking Help Please

It's all getting pretty confusing with all the opinions about whether the short was at the charger or not. But one thing is required and that is a short requires a positive to be shorted to a...
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 04-08-2020, 09:10
Replies: 113
Views: 11,968
Posted By exMaggieDrum
Re: Electrical Fire - Seeking Help Please

This is part of the issue with calling a DC negative to the engine (or a DC negative bus bar) a "ground" wire. It technically is not a "ground" but that is commonly referred that way.


You are...
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 03-08-2020, 09:52
Replies: 64
Views: 14,265
Posted By exMaggieDrum
Re: steering system - chain and wire

I had a non-Edson pedestal on one boat with chain and cable steering. I was going to put in a hydraulic autopilot system and I contacted Edson about their autopilot steering arms. During the...
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 03-08-2020, 09:45
Replies: 113
Views: 11,968
Posted By exMaggieDrum
Re: Electrical Fire - Seeking Help Please

Just an additional thought - The wire going to the battery switch had melted insulation right up to the switch post. It got really really hot. Metal conducts heat really well which means the...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 27-07-2020, 08:55
Replies: 136
Views: 16,162
Posted By exMaggieDrum
Re: Heeling!

I'll throw some more confusion in the hat here.


The Admiral almost never gets sick regardless of what the boat is doing. I don't recall ever getting sick when the boat was well over in...
Forum: Auxiliary Equipment & Dinghy 20-07-2020, 11:04
Replies: 133
Views: 59,433
Posted By exMaggieDrum
Re: Would You Buy Another Tohatsu??

This was back in 2004, and things can certainly change since then. We bought a new Tohatsu 9.8 four stroke. We used the hell out of it for 4 years as full time cruisers to Mexico and then across...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 12-06-2020, 11:02
Replies: 302
Views: 25,196
Posted By exMaggieDrum
Re: Religious Commercial or Political Personal Signal Flags at Marina slip

Some of you must like to carry your politics or whatever with you wherever you go. Myself, (I am holier than thou), like to go to the marina or the anchorage or wherever to escape the political crap...
Forum: Emergency, Disaster and Distress 07-06-2020, 08:50
Replies: 99
Views: 23,229
Posted By exMaggieDrum
Re: The loss of Kokopelli

I was addressing the speculation not an observation. A lot of speculation on here seems to be recycled or retained by some even if they don't comment much or at all on here.
Forum: Emergency, Disaster and Distress 06-06-2020, 08:29
Replies: 99
Views: 23,229
Posted By exMaggieDrum
Re: The loss of Kokopelli

Our since condolences to the folks on Kokopelli. What an enormous tragedy. On our cruises it was always the worst case scenario to hope never happened. I won't try and play arm-chair skipper and...
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