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• Wednesday is PHOTO DAY!
  • Damn, that thing is ugly...
    • Nice photo though
    • Jon, wasn't your floor wet? How is it?
      • Well, it's wrecked... But a new floor was gonna be my next house project, anyway... (grin)
        • If Bernie is selling boats like hotcakes...
          • Heard the same from a team from Eastern Yachts...
            • No kidding. I haven't heard boats moving around here.
              • something must be going right, all sorts of rigging going on too...
                • Hmmm, Rigging, the new economic indicator
                  • I call it recreational spending and if people are spending on whatever recreation it is a good sign...
                    • ** OR **
                      • looks like a pic straight out of water world. Great Shot! Looking for the pop up 50cal.
        • I hate to ask, but do you have flood insurance to cover this stuff?
          • You're kidding, right? Hell, that might have been WISE...
        • As regards boat sales...rising seas dictate the big money be prepared.......
        • Sorry to hear that. I'm sure it'll all work out in the end but perhaps a long road.
        • well at least with all those deliveries
  • bow wave
  • At the mark
  • A portlight is like living in a picture postcard.
    • Those are windows, Tom, not portlights... (grin)
      • It's my boat, and those ports are Alden design icons.
  • Some boats seen this fall. Here's one that at least began in Maine...
    • Ok. Dwelling,...Sailboat.
      • One costs as much as a dwelling, the other as much as a sailboat.
        • Have you priced a new 36 foot Island Packet lately?
          • $ 422,950 for a new 2013 IP 37
            • Wow. Median detached house in Boston, $443,976.00
              • The Morris M36 runs about the same as the IP
                • Or you can go with...
                  • Feel the need to fret about what these boats will look like after thirty years...
                    • Iy you can afford one it will look...
    • A solo IOR cruiser from the far side of Maine...
      • Another nonchalant survivor of Sandy at Popes Island...
      • Great boat except it might feel like living in culvert.
      • That boat anchored off our bow at the Cows Yard a couple years ago
        • Indeed, Tamarack is still more racer than cruiser.
          • Crewed on Black Gold a few years ago.
            • Think this one built to last longer.
            • Was that the Tanton design, circa 1977?
              • Believe that's correct.
                • My first job in RI . . . 1977
      • Ha! I remember that boat
        • Perhaps.
          • Bob has owned many Tamaraks
            • Looks that way.
  • Tom, here is an 1936 Alden with "ports
    • I think the 50's. My boat was Aldens 949th boat design.
  • A chilly sail
  • bridge at the panama-costa rica border
  • this guy didn't make the entrance to the channel at Porvenir, San Blas
    • I hate to see that. Did he get off alright?
      • I believe...
        • Over-reliance on GPS?
          • Actually... yes and no.
  • Tattered sail from Sandy
  • On da Hard