Ringmaster wrote:

It's just amazing what a bitter jealous dude Sloco is. The M26 can
certainly carry and extra battery with no problem!

You ass, your just as dumb as Mr. Charles. I could care less how many
batteries a 26 foot boat CAN carry. My point was why. What 26 foot
boat bopping around a bay needs 3 big heavy batteries and a friking
radar dome half way up it's 30' mast. As always your mouth is ahead of
your little brain.


Ringmaster, you ask why a 26-foot boat needs a friking radar dome half
way up it's 30' mast? - Think for a minute about what's involved. -
Although it's a small boat, if I go down the ship channel to Galveston
(about 25 miles) I'm sharing the channel with lots of other boats,
including big ones and fast ones, going both directions, some passing
others, some fishing or trawling, some heading out to China, etc. Some
of them watch for boats like mine, and others are too busy or don't seem
to give a damn. Some are skippered by pros and others are pleasure boats
with semi-trained, possibly drunk red-necks at the helm (this is Texas
after all). And going down the channel is the only way to get to the
Gulf, unless I want to tow the boat down and launch it there.

I have a chartreader with GPS and memory chip that shows where I am and
where the buoys, ICW, and other channels are, but if visibility goes
bad, either in the channel or offshore, there's an obvious safety issue.

That's why a 26-foot boat like mine might need radar.

Jim