Subject: I have a crazy wife
From: Eisboch

LaBomba182 wrote:
Subject: I have a crazy wife
From: Eisboch


Anything in particular we should watch for in the survey?


Just thought of something else. Find out what kind of transmission it has.
Parts for some of the old Borg Warners can be hard to impossible to get.

Capt. Bill


Thanks, Capt'.

This is great. I've got a good list going for the surveyor.

Eisboch

What kind of genset does it have?

Be sure to run it and go lay down in the aft cabin and see what you think about
the noise and vibration.

Is it a split berth lay out or a island bed?

Capt. Bill

LaBomba182 wrote:
Subject: I have a crazy wife
From: Eisboch


LaBomba182 wrote:

Subject: I have a crazy wife
From: Eisboch


Anything in particular we should watch for in the survey?


Just thought of something else. Find out what kind of transmission it has.
Parts for some of the old Borg Warners can be hard to impossible to get.

Capt. Bill


Thanks, Capt'.

This is great. I've got a good list going for the surveyor.

Eisboch


What kind of genset does it have?

Be sure to run it and go lay down in the aft cabin and see what you think about
the noise and vibration.

Is it a split berth lay out or a island bed?

Capt. Bill



Small genset (4 kw) no air conditioning. The genset is enclosed in a
sound box, but I have to wait for the survey to run it.

The forward cabin is a split V berth configuration.
The aft cabin has a double berth to starboard and a single to port.

Eisboch

Subject: I have a crazy wife
From: Eisboch

Small genset (4 kw) no air conditioning.

Will you be cruising on it while in FL?

Capt. Bill

LaBomba182 wrote:
Subject: I have a crazy wife
From: Eisboch


Small genset (4 kw) no air conditioning.


Will you be cruising on it while in FL?

Capt. Bill


Very, very doubtful. I suspect it will used here in MA, mostly sitting
in the slip as a gathering place for the "girls" with an occasional
weekend trip to Martha's Vineyard, Cuttyhunk or Nantucket. Any cruising
in Florida will be on the Navigator.

I was thinking that you almost have to plan trips on this GB as if it
were a sailboat. The Cape Cod Canal is known for very strong currents -
as much as 7 kts or so as the tide changes. If she were to head north
towards Cape Cod Bay at the wrong time in the canal, she could end up
returning before she left.

BTW, thanks for the link ... I was wondering how you were so
knowledgeable about these boats.

Eisboch

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 00:35:07 -0500, Eisboch
wrote:

LaBomba182 wrote:
Subject: I have a crazy wife
From: Eisboch


Small genset (4 kw) no air conditioning.


Will you be cruising on it while in FL?

Capt. Bill


Very, very doubtful. I suspect it will used here in MA, mostly sitting
in the slip as a gathering place for the "girls" with an occasional
weekend trip to Martha's Vineyard, Cuttyhunk or Nantucket. Any cruising
in Florida will be on the Navigator.

I was thinking that you almost have to plan trips on this GB as if it
were a sailboat. The Cape Cod Canal is known for very strong currents -
as much as 7 kts or so as the tide changes. If she were to head north
towards Cape Cod Bay at the wrong time in the canal, she could end up
returning before she left.

Talk about set and drift.

I've had problems up around the railroad bridge in the Contender at
the wrong tide. Nothing like the Blynman Bridge over the Annisquam up
in Gloucester though. Or the entrance to the Merrimack in Newburyport
in a NE wind. :)

Later,

Tom

Subject: Grand Banks (was I have a crazy wife)
From: Eisboch

BTW, thanks for the link ... I was wondering how you were so
knowledgeable about these boats.


You're welcome.

And feel free you ask any question you may have.
If I don't have the answer one of the people I know (including a former GB
dealer) will have I bet. :-)

Capt. Bill