On 10/16/17 8:02 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 10/16/2017 7:15 AM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 10/15/17 10:08 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Sun, 15 Oct 2017 13:57:25 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 10/15/2017 11:17 AM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 10/14/17 9:27 PM, wrote:
On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 19:04:02 -0400, John H
wrote:

On Sat, 14 Oct 2017 16:55:27 -0400, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 10/14/2017 3:51 PM, wrote:
I don't personally know this boat but it sure looks nice.Â* It's
possible that they will take a well maintained imaginary boat
in trade
but only if it has Corintian Leather cushions.

https://youtu.be/WsvN2KH8TyA

http://www.yachtworld.com/boats/2003/Seahorse-Pilothouse-LRC-3132056/Glen-Burnie/MD/United-States#.WeJp-Dtrx6m



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Very nice.Â* Has a real "wheel house".Â* Engine spaces seems a little
busy
based on the pictures but they can be deceiving.Â* Asking price
doesn't
seem bad, especially considering all the upgrades and work done
on the
engines.Â* Only 1700 hours.Â* Hmmmmm....

Unless all those pictures were taken when brand new, he has kept it
in pristine shape. Wow.

I am guessing it was a tax write off for some corporate owner and
they
had a full time guy doing nothing but shining it up and keeping
things
working. That was what my buddy did for years.
The owner took clients out for a ride and a sales pitch.


I'd bet that barge draws 5' or close to it of water.


More like 3-4 feet.Â* What does your twin Volvo powered trawler draw?

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According to the Yacht World listing it draws exactly 5 ft and has a
full keel to protect the props - fairly typical for serious trawlers.
It comes in handy when cruising the boondocks and the nearest prop
shop might be 500 miles away.


As one example of the issues 5' of draw raises, there are places on
the ICW where the maintained channel is very, very narrow and if you
wander out of it just a bit, you are going to run aground, even on a
shallow draft boat. There were a few times when I was running one way
on the ICW in NE Florida in an outboard boat and I encountered a
pushed barge coming the other way, and in places where the maintained
channel was barely wide enough for the barge and certainly not enough
for two boats traveling in opposite directions meeting each other, so
I would pull out of the channel and in a few cases started churning up
mud. A yacht with a 5' draft would have run aground, perhaps hard
aground. No thanks.


It's part of the experience.Â* The Navigator drew about 3 and a half to 4
feet, depending on fuel load.Â* I went aground three times in different
places on the ICW in the southern states.Â* I had the depth finder alarm
set at 6 feet and it was constantly going off.Â* Fortunately all were
"soft" groundings and I was going very slowly, watching the depth gauge,
constantly looking for deeper water.Â* I was able to back off them,
although one required the assistance of the thrusters.

I also learned that precisely following the channel markers was no
guaranty of safe passage.Â* There are some areas on the ICW that have
short inlets from the ocean and a recent storm offshore caused sandbars
to build up smack in the middle of the ICW channel.Â* Dredging barges
clear them but are of no help when you call them on the radio asking for
a recommendation of what side to pass them on.Â* They won't advise you
and I later learned it's because they cannot assume any responsibility
for directing your passage.

I found that monitoring the radio helped a lot because those ahead of me
would report shallow spots and you could anticipate them. I had a friend
who was making the trip at the same time I was and at one point we were
within radio range of each other. (He was ahead of me and makes the
snowbird trip every year).Â* He knew it was my first time making the
voyage and he helped a lot giving me warnings of shallow water.Â* I
remember one of them was reported by several people so I slowed down to
a crawl and waited until I spotted a large sailboat, figuring that with
his keel, he drewÂ* more than I did and I just followed his course
through the shallow area.

Anyone on a larger boat who claims they never ran aground in the ICW
probably has never traveled the ICW.


I loved fishing along the edges of the ICW and up the ICW creeks and on
the sides of the ocean inlets. Spectacular fishing for flounder, reds,
seatrout, and near St. Augustine, sometimes tarpon. Catfish were fun to
catch. All on really light tackle.