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Forum: Dollars & Cents 22-05-2023, 06:30
Replies: 40
Views: 3,699
Posted By Doubleplay
Re: Misleading Insurance

Insurance companies generally need credentials or licenses. It doesn't matter how long you owned a boat. An RYA Yachmaster or US Sixpack holder will get better rates regardless if they owned a boat...
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 19-12-2022, 06:33
Replies: 105
Views: 12,742
Posted By Doubleplay
Re: Can someone please please help me

%100 Agreed.
Forum: Challenges 24-10-2022, 06:40
Replies: 92
Views: 8,808
Posted By Doubleplay
Re: Lee shore and no steerage

There's always steerage even if the rudder gets stuck or cables snap unless you lose your rudder completely.
Depending on which direction it's stuck you can use the engine in forward or reverse to...
Forum: Challenges 21-10-2022, 06:40
Replies: 135
Views: 11,971
Posted By Doubleplay
Re: Survival challenge

Paranoid much?
The chances of this scenario happening in real life is 1 in 100000 and if it happens you won't even remember what the answer was because you'll be terrified and helpless.
Don't...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 02-09-2022, 06:45
Replies: 32
Views: 6,013
Posted By Doubleplay
Re: Multihull Market Prices

Boat prices in the last two years came down %20 in US dollars in Europe because of the conversion rates.
Forum: Boat Ownership & Making a Living 02-09-2022, 06:41
Replies: 146
Views: 15,799
Posted By Doubleplay
Re: No Tax Residence, banks and brokerages

Where did you get that %3.7 number? US is the bottom of the barrel as far as what you get out of your tax dollars among the developed countries. Look at our infrastructure, education system and...
Forum: Boat Ownership & Making a Living 02-09-2022, 06:35
Replies: 146
Views: 15,799
Posted By Doubleplay
Re: No Tax Residence, banks and brokerages

Living in Middle East is a lot better than US or some European countries as far as quality of life concerned. Given the fact that you have money.
Forum: General Sailing Forum 21-03-2022, 06:40
Replies: 186
Views: 16,774
Posted By Doubleplay
Re: Tipping

When I read this thread it's very easy to understand which posters are well traveled and which ones have never been to anywhere else in their life but maybe Mexico or Bahamas where they see Americans...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 28-01-2022, 07:06
Replies: 154
Views: 59,571
Posted By Doubleplay
Re: Researching Blue Water Boats

I'm late to this conversation and don't know much about the Pearsons you are looking at. But whatever it's worth I'm a dog owner, sailing instructor and also hold a RYA Offshore Yachtmaster license...
Forum: Training, Licensing & Certification 24-01-2022, 06:29
Replies: 38
Views: 4,931
Posted By Doubleplay
Re: Get 6 pack license now on river be advantageous for ocean charter captain.

Not true. 6 pack will only be valid in US for commercial operations. Anywhere else in the World you need a commercially endorsed international license for insurance and operational purposes. A 6 pack...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 24-12-2021, 06:50
Replies: 77
Views: 12,051
Posted By Doubleplay
Re: Cost To Live On Board? Poll

If you get out of US, regardless of where you live you'll be spending between $2.5K -$4K and live very comfortably in a Marina.
However you have to change your mindset and lose the notion of...
Forum: Atlantic & the Caribbean 02-04-2021, 06:49
Replies: 120
Views: 21,015
Posted By Doubleplay
Re: Bahamas verse Caribbean

Bahamas and Caribbean to a certain extend is more or less the same if you are on a boat. They mostly cater to wealthy American tourists.
I don't know what your expectations are but if I were you I...
Forum: Dollars & Cents 12-02-2021, 08:02
Replies: 104
Views: 9,916
Posted By Doubleplay
Re: Just for fun, what would you do with a million dollars

I would get out from US as soon as possible and go somewhere where you can live a much better life with a lot less money. This is one of the Worlds most expensive countries with no meaningful safety...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 09-08-2020, 07:59
Replies: 318
Views: 56,027
Posted By Doubleplay
Re: Prices coming down?

Couple things. We don't print money on paper anymore just push a button. I don't even remember when I handled paper money last time. Second as long as the US dollar is the world's reserve currency,...
Forum: COVID-19 | Containment Area 09-08-2020, 07:49
Replies: 176
Views: 12,086
Posted By Doubleplay
Re: Sailing in Times of Covid

Don't waste your time. Some here are so consumed with politics, they don't even believe in facts or science.They're just trying to push a failed political agenda. This thread got out of hand and has...
Forum: COVID-19 | Containment Area 07-08-2020, 20:31
Replies: 176
Views: 12,086
Posted By Doubleplay
Re: Sailing in Times of Covid

Touche!:peace: Get a coffin quick..
Forum: COVID-19 | Containment Area 07-08-2020, 07:13
Replies: 176
Views: 12,086
Posted By Doubleplay
Re: Sailing in Times of Covid

Right. I'm not young myself. However there are worst things than reaching the destination. Like having a lung damage from Covid and not being able to walk up a flight of stairs from your cabin to...
Forum: COVID-19 | Containment Area 07-08-2020, 07:03
Replies: 176
Views: 12,086
Posted By Doubleplay
Re: Sailing in Times of Covid

It's not about the mask. They are trying to make a political statement in the name freedom..LOL Merica .....
:banghead:
Forum: COVID-19 | Containment Area 06-08-2020, 18:50
Replies: 176
Views: 12,086
Posted By Doubleplay
Re: Sailing in Times of Covid

To be honest I did not but I always respect and admire long distance solo sailors. All I did solo was couple overnight passages.
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 06-08-2020, 18:37
Replies: 201
Views: 22,970
Posted By Doubleplay
Re: The great multi vs mono debate

Try that beaching with a big boat anywhere on the Med where there are no tides or any wide open public beaches for that matter and it'll be the last time you'll beach/ground.
Forum: COVID-19 | Containment Area 06-08-2020, 18:30
Replies: 176
Views: 12,086
Posted By Doubleplay
Re: Sailing in Times of Covid

Who said being a solo sailor is stupid? I sailed solo for hundreds of miles. You better find a better excuse to be stupid or uneducated like not wearing a mask during pandemic.
Forum: COVID-19 | Containment Area 06-08-2020, 18:26
Replies: 176
Views: 12,086
Posted By Doubleplay
Re: Sailing in Times of Covid

You must be leaving in a vacuum so nobody can tell you what to do. Even get an insurance for your boat or get a drivers license to drive. It's all in the name of freedom right?
Forum: COVID-19 | Containment Area 06-08-2020, 15:59
Replies: 176
Views: 12,086
Posted By Doubleplay
Re: Sailing in Times of Covid

Every choice in life has a consequence. Stupid choices can be deadly and effect the general public. That's why stupid/uneducated people being told or forced to wear seatbelt ,wear masks not drink and...
Forum: Monohull Sailboats 06-08-2020, 13:56
Replies: 1
Views: 915
Posted By Doubleplay
Jeanneau SO 479 or SO 440.

After owning mostly performance cruisers, I have a chance to buy a well equipped 2017 SO 379 or a similarly equipped New SO 440. Both boats are in Europe and will be sailed in the Med under USCG...
Forum: COVID-19 | Containment Area 06-08-2020, 13:37
Replies: 176
Views: 12,086
Posted By Doubleplay
Re: Sailing in Times of Covid

You forgot to add having a Political rally where no masks required and one of your biggest african-american supporters catching and dying from Corona. Yep, credibility of this administration is...
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