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To quote an ex colleague of mine: "The best two days of my entire boat ownership was the day I bought the boat and the day I sold the boat."
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Ola posted:Lovely! The Baltic sea is quite brackish, isn't it? At least I know shipwrecks are very well preserved there
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I remember 20-25 years ago I had a book about "future technology" which said that soon all large cruise ships would be catamaran designs because they were more stable in the water and passengers wouldn't get seasick. 
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We had our own sea shadow, HMS Smyge. Used as a testbed for the stealth technology later incorporated in the Visby corvettes.
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Collateral Damage posted:Visby corvettes. 
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Apr 17, 2015 14:05
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Don't forget the 30+ crewmen you have to employ to run it.
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May 2, 2016 09:33
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You're slightly off. If I'm identifying it correctly that's the Luna. Estimated build cost: $545m. 
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May 3, 2016 16:17
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The tender/life boat hanging off the side there is larger and more luxurious than most things you'll find in a typical small scale marina and costs $4m alone. It carries two of them.
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May 3, 2016 16:36
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dreesemonkey posted:I can't even imagine being wealthy enough to have a $500M boat. Like running costs/crew/maintenance has to be in the 8 figure range annually.
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May 3, 2016 20:12
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Elmnt80 posted:So, if one were to take the atkins portion of the equation out, do you think a marine rotary would have any merrit spyder?
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chrisgt posted:I found a parts explosion for a 2002 and 2000 model, those look the same, so by the property of extrapolation (is that even a thing?) I'm gonna assume the 2001 model is the same... Extrapolation is when you make assumptions about data outside the known range, i.e. if the 2000, 2001 and 2002 models were the same, it stands to reason that the 2003 would be at least similar.
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Aug 14, 2016 18:55
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Nerobro posted:I have like.. 200 pictures of the interior of the Cobia, if anyone is interested. 
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Aug 15, 2016 10:51
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You know boats are supposed to go on liquid and not solid water, right?
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Jan 29, 2017 22:51
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FrozenVent posted:The first rule of working over the side: You will drop something.
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Apr 24, 2020 18:58
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Helped a friend pull the outdrives off his twin-sterndrive motorboat last weekend. Every bloody fastener was seized solid. Why is everything involving boats so poorly designed? The lower retaining pins are held in place by locking pins and corrosion. They have completely round and smooth heads so it's impossible to get a good grip on them, and mounted in a way that you can't strike them or get good leverage to force them out. We finally got them out by using a big rear end pipe wrench that could pinch strong enough for its teeth to dig into the steel of the pin head and get a good grip. The upper pins could be pushed through from outside, fortunately. They too were stuck solid but we had a six pound argument (aka a sledgehammer) to convince them with.  
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May 15, 2020 11:47
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gvibes posted:Salt water boat, or no? sharkytm posted:Ugh, DuoProp. We had one coupled to a Volvo Penta diesel that saw thousands of F/R shifts, and it had a solid 2" of slop at the skeg when we got rid of it. I/Is are great for speed and efficiency, but awful at everything else. Sorry you got to deal with that. Neslepaks posted:And just like that
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May 17, 2020 09:24
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MrYenko posted:
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I played around with a foil board (not electric) when I was in Egypt last autumn. I've done a bit of standup paddleboarding and waterskiing, but the foil board was tricky to learn and I never quite got the hang of it.
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Jul 2, 2020 22:10
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cosmin posted:1. I’m in Europe, US stuff may not apply
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Aug 29, 2020 12:00
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It takes longer than a winter for gas to go bad. If the tank is metal you can top it off to avoid potential rust, otherwise it doesn't really matter. If you're really worried just drain the tank in spring, disconnect it from the engine and flush some fresh gas through the lines. But if you're running it for a few minutes every other month you're good already.
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I'll never understand why people try to pass off a fixer uper as something else in ads. You're just wasting everybody's time, including your own.
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Mar 8, 2021 12:04
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Elmnt80 posted:Buying a boat 100% is a terrible idea and nobody should do it, but yet we still do. This is the wrong forum for getting talked out of bad ideas. (I still don't own a boat, though)
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Apr 28, 2021 12:27
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Should have left them in the water.
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Jun 2, 2021 13:57
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Safety Dance posted:There's no duty to not ridicule the bigoted fucks that you just plucked out of the water though.
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Jun 2, 2021 19:19
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Just seal the top of the hull airtight and pump air into it to force the water out.
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Imagine losing your rudder and an 18th century sailing ship answers your distress call
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