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Forum: Boats For Sale and Wanted 06-05-2023, 05:09
Replies: 1
Want To Buy: Scamp
Views: 720
Posted By ptards
Scamp

Looking for a used Scamp, preferably East Coast, but beggars can't be choosers.
TIA,
APT
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 04-04-2022, 16:08
Replies: 22
Views: 4,149
Posted By ptards
Re: F-24/C-760 for Cruising

I've sent several emails to the finish line and haven't had a response yet. Also I get emails from f-boats.io, let me clarify, I'm looking for a 27 under 30k, that has good bones but needs some tlc....
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 03-04-2022, 15:24
Replies: 22
Views: 4,149
Posted By ptards
Re: F-24/C-760 for Cruising

I'm also scouring the web for f-24,27s and all the sites that come up on google, like: Yachtworld,C-list,Boatrader. Anyone out there who knows some off the beaten path sites, I'm sure we'd be...
Forum: Boats For Sale and Wanted 27-02-2022, 05:21
Replies: 1
Want To Buy: F-24 orF-27
Views: 464
Posted By ptards
F-24 orF-27

Looking to buy a sound F-24,27 that needs some work as a retirement project. Prefer trailer along with the boat. Charleston, SC area, but will travel for the right boat. Trying to stay under 20k....
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 15-11-2021, 03:39
Replies: 1,358
Views: 93,605
Posted By ptards
Re: COP26 - the Glasgow Climate Summit

When all is said and done we're supposed to kneel at the feet of China & India as they hi-jack the conference and force us to accept their continued use of use of coal. 'We'll try to use less',...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 21-03-2021, 07:38
Replies: 14,966
Views: 2,641,688
Posted By ptards
Re: The New Joke Thread

I'll own up to being at least one of the complainers. Didn't think CF's joke thread was a platform for an endless stream of political, religious, jingoistic ranting.
This went beyond just being...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 18-03-2021, 11:03
Replies: 14,966
Views: 2,641,688
Posted By ptards
Re: The New Joke Thread

Thanks StuM.

That's really my issue, I used to love the New/Old Joke Thread I support free speech, etc, this just gets tired, old, boring..... constant cut and paste from a vitriol filled, bitter...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 18-03-2021, 07:27
Replies: 14,966
Views: 2,641,688
Posted By ptards
Re: The New Joke Thread

Yeah I'd take Cuomo's & Murphy's advice...Put Covid positive people in nursing homes, although we weren't allowed to visit my sister during her final days.
Also a previously posted cartoon showed...
Forum: Our Community 06-03-2021, 04:45
Replies: 149
Views: 47,257
Posted By ptards
Re: La Vagabonde Contractory Stories

Thanks for turning me on to Barry (OSDog)!! Following Sampson,UMA, Atticus , Plukky & Captain Q, needed a new Rabbit Hole to jump into.
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 28-10-2020, 03:35
Replies: 14,966
Views: 2,641,688
Posted By ptards
Re: The New Joke Thread

Charleston, SC, no problem seeing the posts, I cast my ballot to continue, and many thanks!!
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 15-04-2020, 04:57
Replies: 14,966
Views: 2,641,688
Posted By ptards
Re: The New Joke Thread

I didn't think this forum was supposed to be political, but there are two very recent political posts attacking Mr. Trump.

But if we want to go down this rabbit hole; lets take a minute to...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 15-03-2020, 12:16
Replies: 14,966
Views: 2,641,688
Posted By ptards
Re: The New Joke Thread

That's also not very funny.
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 19-01-2020, 04:52
Replies: 14,966
Views: 2,641,688
Posted By ptards
Re: The New Joke Thread

Not true. Anyone who's played ice will always appreciate the high from stepping on to a clean sheet of ice and taking that first crisp breath of air from above the freshly Zambonied ice.


BTW...
Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting 08-12-2019, 07:22
Replies: 24
Views: 3,297
Posted By ptards
Re: Winch driver, not Milwaukee

"Google Lens" identifies it as an 18V unbranded Cordless 3/8" non-impact, electric ratchet available for $56 on ebay. Torque 60N. Looks like a piece of junk to my trained eye. I'm a pro mechanic and...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 28-11-2019, 04:50
Replies: 14,966
Views: 2,641,688
Posted By ptards
Re: The New Joke Thread

Bob Denier was a gold glove center fielder for the 1984 ChiCubs and also played for the Phillies
Forum: Engines and Propulsion Systems 11-11-2019, 03:09
Replies: 19
Views: 2,613
Posted By ptards
Re: Painted engine components... Why?

He painted the parts after Labor/Labour day.
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 13-09-2019, 03:12
Replies: 58
Views: 7,337
Posted By ptards
Re: Hurricane Dismastings when moored

I'm thinking more along the lines of: F=MA
Forum: General Sailing Forum 12-09-2019, 17:32
Replies: 20
Views: 6,383
Posted By ptards
Re: Good place for sailing in NJ.

Upper Barnegat Bay,lower B bay is between LBI and Manahawkin, north of the causeway and fairly shallow.
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 05-08-2019, 03:40
Replies: 1,914
Views: 58,809
Posted By ptards
Re: Ocean acidifcation .

Let's step back a few decades, when Acid rain was the big issue here in the Eastern US, due to burning coal, so the US cut back the usage of coal & stepped up scrubbing.

Now we have oceanic...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 04-08-2019, 12:22
Replies: 1,914
Views: 58,809
Posted By ptards
Re: Ocean acidifcation .

I am currently reading J.Cornell's 200,000 miles and early on in his quest to head East to West thru the Northwest Passage he talks about how Greenland was settled 2500 BC by indigenous N.Americans,...
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 21-07-2019, 12:28
Replies: 47
Views: 14,577
Posted By ptards
Re: Armed robbery in Panama

We moved to Charleston, SC two years ago and FB is a way to keep up with friends & family back in NJ. I will un-follow friends that start going on political rants, but for the most part I just lurk....
Forum: General Sailing Forum 16-06-2019, 11:48
Replies: 10
Views: 2,011
Posted By ptards
Re: Looking for lay persons guide to Electrical/Electronics

While I have Calder's book, may I also suggest two pieces of electrical test equipment:
(I'm an auto- tech (formerly known as a mechanic))
1) Snap-on Test light with digital readout
2) Power...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 18-05-2019, 14:03
Replies: 29
Views: 3,970
Posted By ptards
Re: Suggestions for books and videos

Thanks for the recommendation couldn't put it down, read it on my kindle, frequently late for work.!!
Forum: General Sailing Forum 09-05-2019, 17:07
Replies: 29
Views: 3,970
Posted By ptards
Re: Suggestions for books and videos

Joshua Slocum, Bernard Moitessier, Webb Chiles, Nigel Calder, William Robinson,
James Baldwin, John Kretschmer, Derek Lund Dr. David Lewis( rare book),
Voyage for Madmen
Forum: Our Community 28-03-2019, 16:34
Replies: 129
Views: 8,488
Posted By ptards
Re: Politics. Or Not please

Does this mean Sextants are to be extant?
Can I discuss the Southern Cross?
Is Congress the opposite of Progress?
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