Why does the 35 MK I half-hull have no rudder? I am tempted to get one, but the
lack of steering seems an issue LOL
Joe
Coquina
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Pretty much that. If you don’t mind having wet batteries those are probably
fine. Having a battery crack open and dump acid in the bilge during a hurricane
was a stinky situation I do not care to
On paper the VMAX batteries look very good -actually a lot better than very
good.
I would be pretty surprised if they can actually do what they claim, but I
don’t know that they don’t. This brings up the main issue with these batteries,
many of them get quite erratic reviews. You might get a
Pretty much that. If you don’t mind having wet batteries those are probably
fine. Having a battery crack open and dump acid in the bilge during a hurricane
was a stinky situation I do not care to repeat.
Joe
Coquina
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My batteries are pretty well shot, so this is all good info for me as well. I
always liked gels myself, but they are getting pretty hard to find now.
I have been getting pretty tempted to go for a 300ah lithium, it will fit right
in and give me a TON more amp-hours. If I go that way I am going
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Can you let me know your LOA and draft?
Thanks
Joe Della Barba
Coquina C 35 MK I
Kent Island MD USA
From: Della Barba
My marina is $400/month for a 35 foot transient plus electric, but 5-1/2 feet
is the max draft.
Joe Della Barba
Coquina
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The moorings in Annapolis are not intended for storage of unoccupied boats, the
harbormaster will have a fit if they figure out you are not there. Also $35/day
can add up.
My marina on the north side of Kent Island is usually quite a bit cheaper than
Annapolis, if you come here you’ll be the
, and CORP Brothers is one of
the few places that I have heard provide this service. This process may cost
you $300 or more. Good luck!
Ron Scott
Rapid Transit
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I think those valves would fit on a SCUBA tank, you might take it to a SCUBA
shop and see.
What inspection did it fail, visual or hydro?
Joe Della Barba
Coquina
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Annapolis is THE original in the water boat show. Besides for all the boats and
the town, the other interesting thing is most of the southbound cruising fleet
is held in the Chesapeake until November 1, so the boat show is kind of an
informal get-together for them too.
IMHO it is well worth
Quarter-ton, half-ton, and so on had to do with IOR ratings, not the weight of
the boats.
Kind of like how 6 meter boats aren't 6 meters long and 12 meter boats are not
12 meters long
Joe
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Wow – that isn’t a typo, that is a real C!
This vessel was designed by the Canadian Navy to assist in the moving the
Admiral and the crew to and from warships and transport goods and services.
Yacht builder C from Canada did a heavy layup of fiberglass to make this
vessel super stable and
FYI – those lights are not all that good.
I put an Aquasignal on the bow pulpit and it is much brighter.
Joe Della Barba Coquina
You have to watch dBi vs. dB rated antennas. I don't consider the quarter-wave
or vertical dipole gain antennas really, but they both show 2 or 3 dB gain over
an isotropic radiator. The straight dB (sometimes dBd) rating assumes a dipole
or 1/4 wave and rates the gain over that.
Joe Della
Are there any VHF antennas with N connectors out there?
Joe
Coquina
r mark for commercial boats. Were I in Brian’s shoes I’d buy the
boat and sail it for a season or two and then decide what to do with it.
Just my opinion.
Sail safe,
Mike
Virginia Lee 93295
1978 C 36 CB
Virginia Beach, VA
On Apr 18, 2022, at 9:41 AM, Della Barba, Joe via CnC-List
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So basically any boat with rod rigging older than 2002 would need all new
standing rigging?
Joe
Coquina
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Stus-List Re: Recommendation: Osprey Composites -
Herrington
It looks like my iPhone somehow sent an unsubscribe request
Anyway, it is fixed now
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Working here Stu. Thanks
The electronic “flares” are a cheap way to be in compliance, but if you
actually think you might need help they aren’t even remotely close to SOLAS
flares. The strobes are probably going to be ignored by everyone, 12 gauge
flares are useless unless you are right next to someone, but SOLAS
So $6K all in once the boat is working again if nothing else is wrong, not too
bad and say $9K if you want a new A4 instead of scrounging Craigslist.
Joe
Coquina
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Looking good now
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All appears fine with me for the last 20 messages
Windows
Customized C Cutting Boards available at:
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Me too! Looks great
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Got my cutting board last evening!
Great work, Stu!
Thank you!!
Sent from my
Anyone else having this issue?
Joe
Coquina
It is also a behavior modification and intelligence test. You are looking to
either punish boaters above all other hobbies or to see who is smart enough to
have enough money for a new boat yet dumb enough to not find a way around the
tax.
Joe
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I was in the boat repair business at that time and the last pre-tax year was
1.5 million gross and the next year with the tax was 385K.
It does not work, no one will pay it, they'll find any way around it.
Joe Della Barba
Coquina
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I have a Genco dodger. It is now 21 years old! Genco does good work, but
*remote control canvas work* is difficult! I had some issues that were
eventually resolved, caused by my C 35 not being identical to the one they
found near them to take measurements from. I would make sure and send
There was a Landfall 38 for sale that had in the description of the boat that
they had injected about 2 gallons of epoxy into the rudder. I wouldn’t go buy a
new rudder quite yet, it may be as fine as the rudders on all the other old
C On the few occasions I have been out in freezing weather I
Fred will need to jump in, but what I recall is SeaTalk NG *is NMEA 2000* more
or less, you just need to adapt the physical connections to each other.
Joe
Coquina
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Jim Muldoon was (is?) the somewhat infamous owner of a few big racing boats
named Donnybrook. He was a character and not always well liked by his crew and
competitors.
One morning right at sunrise in the anchorage at Oxford the day after the
Annapolis-Oxford race, some sailors from a boat we
We decided to head out Saturday for a bit and we got what has to be one of the
best December sailing days ever. The wind was cranking from the south to the
point gale warnings were up for the area. My marina is on the north side of the
island, so we got a great breeze, flat water, and upper 60s
General warning on power supplies:
Do NOT use them to charge batteries unless you confirm they can do that. The
way some of them regulate the output will cause them to burn up if connected to
a battery.
Joe Della Barba
Coquina C 35 MK I
Kent Island MD USA
Thanks to all of the subscribers that
I have a plotter at the helm of my 35 MK I. It faces aft, if I want to navigate
from forward, like I do about 90% of the time, I look at the computer on the
chart table or SeaIQ/Navionics on my iPad.
If I rotated the helm plotter sideways I think the mainsheet would get it.
Joe Della Barba
.
Joe
Coquina
From: Martin DeYoung
Sent: Monday, November 22, 2021 2:43 PM
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Cc: Della Barba, Joe
Subject: Re: Stus-List Re: [EXTERNAL] Digital Panel Meter
Back in the early 70’s the chief electrical engineer at our transformer design
and manufacturing company related a story
The frequency should be 60 Hz, period. The way the power grid works would cause
an emergency disconnect of your local generator from the grid if it gets off of
60 or a disconnect of your grid ties to the wider world. The results of not
doing this can include your local power plant physically
There are tons and tons of them on Amazon and FleaBay, but matching the size is
tricky. Also note that a frequency meter for shore power is a bit odd, what are
you going to do if it is wrong? Call the power company?
99% of the time I see them on boats with generators or sometimes boats that
I have had mine refused for being too long, see if you have too many old
messages quoted in the reply.
Joe
Coquina
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Any
Note to pranksters:
Stuff like “Airbus Flight Control Calibration Port” on an airliner might cause
more of a reaction than you expect!
Joe
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Stus-List Re: Wifi antenna at top of mast
To amplify the last post:
What you want is a VPN setup. What a VPN does in simple terms is encrypt the
traffic flowing through the wifi connection and route it through the VPN server
on the way to and from the internet. This means if you connect to the Dr Evil
and KGB Associates wifi access
I don’t use a snap shackle any more for the jib, since it stays up for months
at a time or more. It is a screw-in shackle with safety wire holding it.
The main shackle is one that screws in and out. It has never loosened itself. I
think the longest the main has been up continuously is maybe 6 or
I have seen 41s with the traveler across the cabin top, across the bridge deck,
and across the cockpit just forward of the wheel.
Are all 3 of these factory configurations or did they all start in the same
place?
Joe Della Barba Coquina C 35 MK I
Thanks to all of the subscribers that
Those are two different boats. One looks about brand new and one looks beat to
hell.
Joe
Coquina
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Stus-List Re: What's up with this boat?
Is these both boat in the
Update – The Bruce did not fit the original roller without banging into the
hull ☹ Next step was to buy a bigger anchor roller, which turned out to be an
adventure. First one off Amazon was some Chinese knockoff made of metal so thin
I could bend it by hand! That went back. The next one somehow
A light or alarm sensor is a switch that is open or closed. A sensor for a
gauge is a variable resistor. You will likely need another sensor for a gauge
or a combo sensor with both terminals.
Joe
Coquina
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Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 1:37 PM
To: 'Stus-List'
Chainplate leaks, rot, and corrosion are pretty endemic to almost all boats,
not just 36s and certainly not just C
Pacific Seacraft uses external bronze chainplates that will never have those
issues, but that only works on very narrow boats. Island Packet is (in)famous
for glassing over
I had one on a previous boat and they are really good dirt collectors!
Make sure it fits so you can pick it up.
Joe
Coquina
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Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 12:27 PM
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Stus-List Cockpit Floor Grating for a 34
Hello
I tried it and had no luck, barnacles galore ☹
I am not sure if the paint doesn’t work or if it came off the prop.
Joe
Coquina
yPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray Thanks - Stu
Thanks to all of the subscribers that contributed to the list to help with the
costs
In contrast, the West Marine store brand is pretty much barnacle food, I think
they LIKE the paint ☹
Joe
Coquina
Thanks to all of the subscribers that contributed to the list to help with the
costs involved. If you want to show your support to the list - use PayPal to
send contribution --
I am sure plenty of people “forget” to mention the paid crew, but if you want
coverage you’ll need to talk to the people that insure all the big yachts with
paid crew. There is a lot that goes into proper coverage of crew that would be
unfamiliar to companies more used to insuring ski boats on
I have $500K with Progressive.
Joe
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Sent: Friday, October 15, 2021 11:07 AM
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Stus-List Re: Insurance
This issue came up when I moved from Travelers to Progressive this past spring.
I went through a local Erie Insurance
Another thing to check is salvage vs. repair coverage. If you just have say
$50K of hull insurance with no salvage, if it takes $25K to salvage the boat
you now have $25Kleft to fix the boat. For a difficult salvage and an old boat
you could easily end up with nothing left.
BOATUS used to have
Great news
My marina requires $500K liability this year, so when I added it I didn’t
realize I was propagating it across all three of my policies. I now have what I
think is the only dinghy in the world with half a million dollars of insurance.
For all three boats it added up to $84/year
We always had the concept of a funnel with the narrow end at the mark, even if
you are on a hot angle, if you get too far off the ruhmline too close to the
mark and the wind shifts, you are hosed.
Joe
Coquina
Thanks to all of the subscribers that contributed to the list to help with the
costs
I have a 1973 C 35 Mk I, so in 73 they were not on MK IIs yet. I am hull
number 179. The number of boats they built seems inconceivable today and they
weren’t cheap, we paid more for our USED 35 than we did for our house!
Joe
Coquina
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Sent: Friday, October 8,
The perfect boat is 100 feet long underway and shrinks to 20 feet whenever you
are paying for a slip or cleaning the bottom!
Joe
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costs involved. If you want to show your support to the list - use PayPal to
send
My haul out fees include a pressure wash and scrape right at haul-out. I can’t
imagine NOT doing that, the resulting baked-on mess would be horrible to get
off later.
Joe
Coquina
Thanks to all of the subscribers that contributed to the list to help with the
costs involved. If you want to
Me neither for any of my boats.
( I have 3 boats insured with them)
Joe
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Sent: Monday, September 27, 2021 1:11 PM
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Stus-List Re: Insurance
They didn't ask me for a survey.
Alan Bergen
35 Mk III Thirsty
Rose City
I doubt that. A CNG regulator is very different! The max pressure of a propane
tank is maybe 250 PSI and the max pressure of a CNG tank is close to 3000 PSI.
Joe Della Barba
Coquina
From: ALAN BERGEN via CnC-List
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2021 10:42 AM
To: Stus-List
Cc: ALAN BERGEN
You seem to have several issues going on.
1. The regulator: If it is bad it may leak gas or provide improper gas
pressure. It should smell bad if it leaks assuming you get smelly gas. Pure
methane has no odor, but every tank I have ever got had the stink perfume added.
2. The solenoid: If
The problem: The C 35 MK I has a small horizontal bulkhead right up in the
bow for a reinforced area to bolt the stemhead to. The deck is not attached to
it, there is about a ¼” air gap. That makes the whole assembly weaker and
subject to compression bending.
Step 1: Remove the anchor roller
I have full coverage on a 1970 boat and a 1973 boat through Progressive.
Joe Della Barba
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Sent: Friday, September 24, 2021 10:23 AM
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Cc: rockland bazemore
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Stus-List Re: Insurance
Just looked into it and Progressive is only
For an gasoline engine that might be true, but for most diesels the result of
feeding dirt past the Racor would be clogging up the filter on the engine. Now
if there is water in the fuel – that would get through the engine filter ☹
Joe
Coquina
From: Neil Andersen via CnC-List
Sent: Thursday,
Some fuel pumps ground through the case. Is the pump mounted on the engine?
Joe
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Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2021 10:16 AM
To: CnC CnC discussion list
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Stus-List Fuel pump
I am trying to
I would have no issue single-handing a 41 as long as the boat had roller
furling. The great thing about C is you can be way off pushing the boat to
10/10ths and still be faster than everyone else.
You will want to rig up an asym chute, dealing with a spinnaker pole and gybing
is a LOT of work
If I pull the trigger on this, it is going to be alternator > start battery >
DC-DC charger > lithium battery.
So what say you lithium experts:
This one
Amazon.com: Victron Energy Orion-Tr Smart 12/12-Volt 30 amp 360-Watt DC-DC
Charger, Non-Isolated (Bluetooth) :
When I was cutting Aeroquip lines I used a sledge hammer and a cold chisel.
Joe
Coquina
From: Bill Coleman via CnC-List
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 10:28 AM
To: Stus-List
Cc: Bill Coleman
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Stus-List Re: Fuel pump problem?
There is an amazing hose that I came across at
I had to track down a fuel problem that was driving me nuts. I had random
shutdowns that would randomly fix themselves. I ended up with a fuel pressure
gauge and 2 vacuum gauges, one on each side of the filter. I noticed the vacuum
would increase on BOTH gauges when there was a shutdown,
Typo
Water migrates slowly through end-grain balsa but really tears foam up
From: Della Barba, Joe via CnC-List
Sent: Friday, September 17, 2021 10:18 AM
To: Stus-List
Cc: Della Barba, Joe
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Stus-List Re: Balsa core history
Time: I doubt anyone really thought through what
Time: I doubt anyone really thought through what balsa core would be like when
it was 50-60-70 or more years old. A lot of things can go wrong with a lot of
materials when past the half-century mark and headed towards 100.*
Bad Builders: Some builders, mostly NOT C, were or are infamous for
This week has been working to 2100 for me ☹
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costs involved. If you want to show your support to the list - use PayPal to
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Forgot to mention – the Deka gel in the same size costs a lot more. The TCO is
probably about the same.
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Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2021 1:00 PM
To: 'Stus-List'
Cc: j...@dellabarba.com
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Stus-List Now Gel Batteries
Those, like about 98%
Yes – that is what I have now.
Gels are good batteries, but VERY hard to find. If you ask for them, most
battery shops will give you an AGM battery. Gels have close to twice the
lifespan of most AGMs.
They never need water and can be mounted without a case. They do require a
unique charge
C-List
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 6:31 PM
To: Della Barba, Joe via CnC-List
Cc: Neil Gallagher
Subject: Stus-List Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: anyone gone lithium?
Joe,
Also a bit of thread creep, but I'm in the process of rebuilding or replacing
my alternator on the A4. Does the Balmar fit on the
That is pretty astounding battery life, I am not sure I can get a battery to
last that long in a car.
What is your typical cycling load like for a typical week out?
Joe
Coquina
From: Robert Abbott
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 4:14 PM
To: Stus-List
Cc: Della Barba, Joe ; Randal Stafford
From: Dreuge via CnC-List
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 2:01 PM
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Stus-List Re: anyone gone lithium?
Joe,
What is your alternator rated at? I was lucky to charge my FLA batteries at
half rating, but now I easily
My alternator might hit 50 amps on a really good day, so a 40 amp DC-DC charger
would be plenty.
BTW, the usual alternator protectors are 16 or 18 volt Zener diodes. I had
occasion to test that once and it did burn the diode up, but the alternator was
saved
Joe Della Barba
Coquina
From:
To just replace what I have with the same batteries I have now, Deka gels, will
be about $650, so it isn’t cheap either way.
Joe Della Barba
Coquina
From: CHARLES SCHEAFFER
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 12:17 PM
To: Stus-List
Cc: Della Barba, Joe ; Randal Stafford
Subject: [EXTERNAL
as it appears to merit special consideration
in a marine environment. Dave
S/V Aries
1990 C 34+
New London, CT
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On Sep 14, 2021, at 9:27 AM, Della Barba, Joe via CnC-List
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My batteries are about shot and I am thinking of
:27 AM Della Barba, Joe via CnC-List
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My batteries are about shot and I am thinking of going to lithium batteries. I
have to say I thought I knew this stuff and it seems massively confusing with a
ton of directly contradictory information. One big issue
My batteries are about shot and I am thinking of going to lithium batteries. I
have to say I thought I knew this stuff and it seems massively confusing with a
ton of directly contradictory information. One big issue seems that if the BMS
disconnects for any reason, that will do a lot of damage
I have been in races that were almost 100% downwind or 100% upwind, thanks to
perfect timing of wind shifts. Somehow it worked out and the PHRF ratings are
what they are and we dealt with it.
I know many people disagree, but IMHO making big boat racing resemble dinghy
racing and making dinghy
This is an ongoing issue with racing, everything is W/L dinghy racing no matter
if your boat is 10 feet long or 110 feet long. Back in the day when men were
men and sheep were scared we used government marks and you got what you got,
reaches, beats, runs, whatever.
When I used to RC C races I
And then we’re up. The wind doesn’t seem like anything to worry about, but
depending on how long it hangs around storms approaching from that angle can do
enormous damage to the area from flooding come down from the Appalachians.
Ellicott City might get their THIRD 1,000 year flood in the past
I once threw the same spider overboard 4 times. He could stay on the surface
and would make his way back to the dinghy, climb in, and follow the painter
back aboard. I finally decided he could stay if he was that determined to go
sailing!
Joe
Coquina
Thanks to all of the subscribers that
Everyone OK in the Gulf area?
BTW, either a storm jib or storm jib + triple reefed main works for me in 50.
50 foot waves though ………..I think I would pass on that one! That is almost
mast height! YIKES! I have never been in waves higher than the boat is long and
look to continue that trend.
The best holding would be something like 250 feet of ½” chain, but then your
boat would float bow-down.
For decades we had 6 feet of ¼” inch chain. This was pretty much standard
issue for racing. It did work, we made up for lack of chain catenary by using
7:1 scope. The problem I had with it
Expanding foam has no structural strength at all and is easily compromised by
water. I would not even think of it for this use.
Joe
Coquina
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Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2021 12:19 PM
To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com
Cc: SV Mary Me
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Stus-List Replacing
The issue you may encounter is that it is just as much work to sell a $25,000
boat as a $500,000 boat, so when brokers are busy you may not get as much help
with the lower end of their listings as you would have a couple of years ago.
Looking at a boat that was about $50K, the broker told me he
I have no firsthand experience, but I have read several places that the
knock-offs are not as good as the real Bruce. Apparently tiny differences in
the shape have big effects.
Joe
Coquina
Thanks to all of the subscribers that contributed to the list to help with the
costs involved. If you
Someone on my street is selling a 33 pound real Bruce for $150. I think it
will be an improvement over my Danforth. Any Bruce fans?
Joe
Coquina
Thanks to all of the subscribers that contributed to the list to help with the
costs involved. If you want to show your support to the list - use
Re financing: My credit union will loan on boats 200 years old, they really
don’t care about age as long as there is survey to provide some idea of the
value of the boat. This is not true of most lenders, so make sure you can get
the money on X year boat before wasting your time on it.
Joe
I cannot say it will or won't help, but be warned:
Used boat prices have ramped up HUGELY in the last year or so. My wife thought
maybe we should move up and I wasted time and money looking at floating junk
that would have been going for scrap a couple of years ago. Also note the
iPhone effect:
It was this stuff:
https://www.westmarine.com/buy/west-marine--liquid-electrical-tape--544171
From: Joe Della Barba via CnC-List
Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2021 6:28 PM
To: 'Stus-List'
Cc: j...@dellabarba.com
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Stus-List Re: Leaking hatch
Yes – it was liquid electrical tape.
lately you can’t just show up and live-aboard like you can here.
Joe Della Barba
Coquina
From: Steve Thomas via CnC-List
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2021 3:02 PM
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Cc: Della Barba, Joe ; Steve Thomas
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Stus-List Re: Boat trucking recommendations
She
this, but if she can’t day-sail her way to Texas,
how long is she going to be able to be on the boat at all?
Joe
Coquina
From: Steve Thomas
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2021 2:17 PM
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Cc: Della Barba, Joe
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Stus-List Re: Boat trucking recommendations
If the boat is too fragile to just sail to San Diego, is the boat worth
shipping across the country?
I could probably find a fragile old 35 foot boat for $25K in California.
Also note the Canadian shipper *might* be able to ship the boat to Canada and
then ship her to San Diego, but you might
This is why I like my fuel pressure gauge. There are several things that can
stop the flow of fuel and only some of them show up on a vacuum gauge.
Joe Della Barba
Coquina
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Sent: Thursday, August 5, 2021 1:06 PM
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