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Forum: General Sailing Forum 10-04-2024, 12:18
Replies: 97
Views: 13,628
Posted By jmschmidt
Re: Thinking about a chartering business

Wow CSY Man, how come you’re not in jail? I spotted at least a half dozen potential Internal Revenue Code and/or State of Florida and/or BVI tax and licensing violations.

You appear to be the...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 09-04-2024, 14:28
Replies: 97
Views: 13,628
Posted By jmschmidt
Re: Thinking about a chartering business

Thanks for the responses. My charter concept is to sell my owner's time at a big discount (maybe up to 50%) off from the big charter operators' rack rates. This is perfectly allowed by my rental...
Forum: Deck hardware: Rigging, Sails & Hoisting 27-02-2024, 12:04
Replies: 18
Views: 3,514
Posted By jmschmidt
Re: Traveler car - help me identify this 1994 example

Roger that
Forum: Weather | Gear, Reports and Resources 15-02-2024, 16:14
Replies: 634
Views: 74,380
Posted By jmschmidt
Re: Changes in Tropical Cyclone Intensity & Track

Is Montanan in Hawaii of Aleutians? It is 2PM on Oahu and it will be lucky if we get 79 degrees f today. For months the temps have been mostly below normal. Right now, the ocean water 15 degrees...
Forum: Dollars & Cents 08-02-2024, 13:19
Replies: 263
Views: 28,775
Posted By jmschmidt
Re: Reasonably safe Crypto funds when traveling.

I had a friend who said he made $165,000 on Bitcoin. He told me that he used about $100,000 in Bitcoin to pay a contractor to renovate his home. I told him that his Bitcoin "profit" is fully...
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 02-10-2023, 12:35
Replies: 78
Views: 18,840
Posted By jmschmidt
Re: Would You Buy a European 220V Boat for Use North America

Scorpius is right. 50 or 60Hz is not a big problem. However, a genset putting out 50Hz. is quieter than a 60Hz one, the difference is 1,800rpm vs 1,500 rpm.

Appliances, frigs and aircons, may...
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 30-09-2023, 11:27
Replies: 78
Views: 18,840
Posted By jmschmidt
Re: Would You Buy a European 220V Boat for Use North America

We did that with a French flagged Moorings 47 Sailing Cat we bought. The two transformers Moorings ordered for us wayed over fifty pounds each, generated a lot of heat and made a hellish noise. We...
Forum: Pacific & South China Sea 13-03-2023, 12:42
Replies: 31
Views: 9,237
Posted By jmschmidt
Re: Doing Tahiti bareboat next month (02/2022); any tips?

I haven't been to Bloody Mary's for about ten years. I was half owner of a Moorings 474 Sailing Cat based in Raiatea. Made at least seven trips to Bora and the other islands.

I knew two of the...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 07-03-2023, 12:03
Replies: 97
Views: 13,628
Posted By jmschmidt
Re: Thinking about a chartering business

I thought the USCG licensing process was pretty easy. But then before I applied, I had maybe fifty years of on-the-water experience from homemade rafts on the Columbia River to part ownership of a...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 11-02-2023, 17:29
Replies: 41
Views: 9,652
Posted By jmschmidt
Re: Sailing to Hawaii - marinas

La Mariana Restaurant looks fine. Had dinner there a week or so ago. Great food and service. It was night when we were there but the docks and boats looked ok.
Forum: Boat Ownership & Making a Living 27-01-2023, 14:55
Replies: 21
Views: 10,188
Posted By jmschmidt
Re: Jones act and six pack

Sorry Sailing Harmonie but I have read in the news that the USCG has been arresting wanabe charter operators and boat owners doing Airbnb type rentals with any old boat they can find.
Forum: Boat Ownership & Making a Living 27-01-2023, 10:09
Replies: 21
Views: 10,188
Posted By jmschmidt
Re: Jones act and six pack

If that "nice boat" you want to buy for limited personal use is foreign built you still have to jump through all the Jones Act hoops which GordMay and I posted if you intend to rent or charter it. ...
Forum: General Sailing Forum 24-07-2022, 12:16
Replies: 10
Views: 1,595
Posted By jmschmidt
Re: How strong is the bulkhead between my V-berth and head?

I don't allow any sleeping or extended lounging in the V-berth while underway, especially at night. As Clint Eastwood would say, "Do you trust your collision bulkhead.... well do ya punk."
Forum: Boat Ownership & Making a Living 19-07-2022, 12:13
Replies: 20
Views: 3,537
Posted By jmschmidt
Re: How Much Do You Think My Boat is Worth?

It is only worth what someone else will pay for it. "Market is what market is."
Forum: Liveaboard's Forum 19-07-2022, 12:09
Replies: 47
Views: 15,356
Posted By jmschmidt
Re: Boat listing price vs offer vs actual sale price

"Market is what market is". A boat, house, car or pile of manure that sells for what some people thought was way too high a price just proved this old adage.
Forum: Electrical: Batteries, Generators & Solar 14-07-2022, 11:30
Replies: 61
Views: 5,447
Posted By jmschmidt
Re: Checking the math on 1.65 kwatt off grid solar system

I think (hope) you mean lithium IRON phosphate, not lithium-ion phosphate. I have three of the 1,000AH lithium-iron type in my home storage system powered by a twelve-panel solar array. Works great...
Forum: Challenges 11-07-2022, 11:52
Replies: 92
Views: 10,802
Posted By jmschmidt
Re: Seasickness, Fear & anxiety

Drugs, drugs, drugs! Come on folks, only one person in a hundred thousand has inner-ear issues which can cause disorientation resulting in motion sickness. Anxiety and apprehension are the cause...
Forum: Dollars & Cents 09-07-2022, 21:36
Replies: 10
Views: 1,318
Posted By jmschmidt
Re: Have you used Howard S Reeder or ASAP Marine Documentation for the sale of a boat

A South African built boat of French flag should be allowed to be imported into the US duty free. Some US customs personnel either don't know this or ignore this international treaty provisions...
Forum: Training, Licensing & Certification 09-07-2022, 12:24
Replies: 64
Views: 9,270
Posted By jmschmidt
Re: License for sailing my own boat

Marinas don't care about licensing. They are only interested in your liability insurance and can you pay the rent in advance. Some government agencies are interested in your insurance as well which...
Forum: Multihull Sailboats 09-07-2022, 12:06
Replies: 108
Views: 17,542
Posted By jmschmidt
Re: StarLink Maritime Way Over Price

Perhaps Leon Musk doesn't realize that volume in the retail business is usually more profitable than exclusively. After all his cars are outside the reach of the average Joe as well, which is fine...
Forum: Training, Licensing & Certification 07-07-2022, 12:58
Replies: 16
Views: 2,445
Posted By jmschmidt
Re: How to Acquire a Ship's Station License for my SSB?

The old frequency that we used in aviation (2182 I believe) is no longer monitored by anyone. VHF and UHF are monitored.
Forum: General Sailing Forum 07-07-2022, 12:45
Replies: 25
Views: 2,544
Posted By jmschmidt
Re: Boat lender as insurance "loss payee", is it ok?

Standard procedure.
Forum: Construction, Maintenance & Refit 03-07-2022, 12:29
Replies: 13
Views: 2,144
Posted By jmschmidt
Re: New to me radar...raymarine rd418hd 18". Is this decent?

The old monochrome radars were pretty dangerous. That's why it was on the check list to turn it off before approaching the gate so as not fry the ground crew. It's still on the check list but not...
Forum: Europe & Mediterranean 03-07-2022, 12:21
Replies: 16
Views: 2,142
Posted By jmschmidt
Re: Moving to Sweden with a boat

You ask for a lot of information but provide no details of yourself or your boat.
Forum: General Sailing Forum 03-07-2022, 12:16
Replies: 4
Views: 1,130
Posted By jmschmidt
Re: Registration and flag in Sint Maarten

This kind of work is my specialty, but you do not provide enough info for me to be of any help.

What flag does she fly now? (USCG Documented, US State Registered, or some other type of foreign of...
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