Recent content by piratos

JFM - Thank you for sharing your new Boat with us. I see some negative comments, but cannot understand why. In such a project I would have chosen different from what you have, but thats not the point. I am very well interested in your choices, and of course also WHY you have chosen so - e.g...

A memory from cruising in Sweden 2022. In 2023 boat was sold, and another recently bought. Next three years will be cruising from Adriatic to the Baltic.

Agree 100 pct. My point was that its still better than none at all 👍

Hi I could have been in San Carlos as well, but I never got a reply to my direct mail.... Meantime bought another (med based) boat and am waiting for the seatrial to take place. Usually I have been cruising Northsea / Baltic area, and as many probably know two weeks ago there was a storm over...

Hi. I do not agree that they are useless. Often we cannot see sailingboats on radar - but those using this type of reflectors are indeed visible. We usually pass an area where many small dinghies are drifting while fishing. As they usually use a radar reflector they are absolutely visibable on...

In earlier days I used fans when starting Gasolin engines, but with my Tamd61 I never used the fans. There are differnet set ups - and on some ships/boats fans are used to suck additional air into the engine room.

Everytime renewing of the magazine comes up I consider to stop subscription, but then I might miss something.... I really want a papermagazine, and not just a website to read, and I am sure that many of the "old" subscribers maintain their subscription for the same reason. When I consider to...

You are right - and sorry for replying to Portofino - I had not seen point was already raised from others. Having sold, I am looking for my next boat in the Med - idea is over two years (SOF area ) or probably three years (Adriatic) to cruise from the Med to the Baltic. Ideally a...

I guess this refers to idling only and not under load as mentioned displacement speed at 8-900RPM ??

Well spoken. Can only say listen to those who can assist and forget those trying to decline the project. Projects are for people with guts! In this forum is also a guy who totally restored a wooden boat in Greece. Check out his rebuilt project 👍

Hi. Normally the Seller pay the brokerate fee. He is the one who made the contract with the broker.

How true. Buying a boat- and specially secondhand - you always have to compromise somewhere. I have for some time been negotiating a boat and hardly come forward (missing service documentation etc) and then saw a sister in Italy which i went to view. The poor condition could have given a huge...

Situation is different. I am in the EU. Having sold my boat i am in the market for another boat. There was a boat boat in Spain but UK registered. Looks like it is possible but boats from UK are not attractive - since Brexit. It was just one option - also looking at one with german registry. 🤷‍♀️

Hi One question - does anybody know whether a boat needs new CE certifikation when sold within EU (built before CE certification, registered in UK, and still within EU) ??

Hi. Agree its a nice rice, but I have to agree this is no where near to a F6- F7 situation. Think we should first of all get to the point where we are talking about the same when we talk about weather - Wind is not all, and without wind you can still have considerably sea state. Reading...