So my uncle, 83 (M), decided he was sick of being retired and started to get his hands to work again and came up with this. Every bit and piece of this is hand-made. He’s an old school carpenter with a great lean on traditional Turkish motifs. Took him 8 weeks to complete this one with his buddy. He has a small workshop and can build 2 of these simultaneously.

I know this is not exactly a 200ft mega yatch but i still wanted to share this piece of beauty with you boat-lovers.

I also want to take recommendations from the community on how could i put his work to international market to try and make him an extra buck.

Every 5 years our lake is drained so maintenance can be done on our docks with ease. I had been voicing concern about our dock since they bought the house. What do you think needs to be done here? Entire replacement? A welder said he can weld plates in there? Any advice is appreciated.

I’m going to try and keep this short.

We were out tuna fishing. Left Oregon inlet, had a great day headed back. Weather was rough as expected. Boat came off a wave really hard, it got everyone’s attention, then the next wave the mate came flying out the cuddy cabin for us to get our life vests on. Within 10 minutes we were in the water, rescued by nearby fishing boats in about 10-15 minutes.

The captain & first mate handled the situation quickly, but in what seemed to be a well-rehearsed manner.

The local fleet was able to pick us up on radar in addition to using the captains provided coordinates.

The inflatable raft deflated as quickly as it inflated. That sucked.

The boat had an EPIRB.

The rescue boat had a life preserver and a rope that they tossed to us to drag us to the boat.

We were in 56°F water for 10-15 minutes. (What’s that? 9-10°C?)

The boat was a Rose-Brothers sport fisher style with a fly bridge. I thought it was newer, but the mate said something about it being from the 60’s while we were out on the water.

I’m pretty sure the hull split under the bow. I think we came off a 10-13’ wave amongst 3-5’ waves.

We finished the Loop!

Our family of four spent 15 months traveling along America’s Great Loop in our sailboat, SV Fika.

We traveled over 5,600 nautical miles together and plan to keep cruising another year. Our kids were ages 8 and 10 when we moved onto our boat.

I got a $500 bonus and decided to gamble it all on designing and building my very first boat from scratch. What could go wrong?

I’ve always dreamed of having a “classic wooden boat,” but I don’t have a trailer or hitch so I wanted a boat that fit inside the trunk of my Honda CRV and that was as inexpensive as possible. After about two months of designing and building, I ended up with a fully functional mini boat, and thought I’d share my process here! (Swipe for photos of the build)

I started by building a vision board of different classic boat shapes and features I liked. From there, I created a stack-up diagram of all the essential components (battery, motor, seat, etc.) to determine the minimum boat length. With the rough dimensions figured out I then modeled it in CAD, cut the plywood pieces out, and assembled the frame.

After building the hull, I did fiberglass and epoxy work on the bottom of the hull and the hull seams. Then for the electronics I installed a trolling motor, wired it to a deep cycle gel battery, and then created a mechanical steering system using a series of pulleys and rope (similar to the steering of a soapbox derby car). The steering system definitely took some trial and error, but after a few late nights, I eventually got the pulley placement and rope tension dialed in.

The final boat fits perfectly in the back of my CRV and doesn't leak! This was one of the most satisfying builds I’ve done and was really cool to see that I could turn my idea into a real working boat.

TLDR: Spent my $500 bonus designing and building a small, classic-inspired wooden boat that fits in the back of my CRV. Took 2 months and somehow… it actually works.

Hello saw this posted on FB what do you think it takes to fuel up?

Guys, I bought a 28 year old boat for $8,500, it only had 96 hours on it so I thought sure it would be a good deal, and well….

It’s been freaking awesome!! Just wanted to thank this sub, there’s so much help, advice, tips and pointers I got from here it was amazing.

I bought a 23’ sea ray overnighter and the thing has been flawless. Every time I turn the key it starts, the boat looks practically brand new (after a deep cleaning) and constantly gets compliments, everything besides the depth finder works. Honestly I’m just waiting for the ball to drop and something to go wrong because this far it’s been too easy going.

So far I took it out for the 4th and had jet skiers jumping my wake the first time I opened her up, have gone tubing with friends and watched a fireworks show at night from the water. Just wondering why I didn’t get into this sooner.

Thanks again for all help! This sub has been just as much help after buying the boat as it was before, I couldn’t be more grateful.

Also yes this is a repost, IDK why it disappeared the first time.

I’m a maritime pilot in Belgium, and I wanted a way to feel what the sea is doing without opening an app. So I built SeaGlance: a small yellow and black cardinal buoy hanging on 8 thin lines inside a 30 cm frame.

Every 30 minutes it fetches live data (wave height, period and direction) from a real buoy you choose, and 8 small motors move the model buoy to match. When it’s flat calm off the coast, it barely moves on your desk. When a swell builds, it starts to heave and roll. It works with hundreds of buoys from NOAA, CDIP, the Irish and Belgian networks and others, so you can follow your home harbour, your next passage or your favourite anchorage.

A small screen on the front shows the station name, wave height and period.

Happy to answer questions. I’d also love to hear which buoys you’d want to follow!

There is a marina in my neighborhood and this boat is sitting in what looks like a raft. I can totally understand how it gets in, but how in the world does the boat get out?

It can't just lower it's engines into the raft and it doesn't look like they have enough room to walk it out.

What is this thing and how does it work?

Took the ASA classes, joined a sailing club, been cross shopping sailboats and trawlers for a couple of years. First viewed this interesting aluminum boat in October, finally got it home after many tribulations. Brokers, insurance, storm delays, breakdowns, towing, border patrol, boat yards. My goal was to learn more about the cruising life and boat ownership and this has certainly been a trial by fire.

So I took my boat out for the first day of the season yesterday. My HB was out of town, so I was captain (the last time I took our boat solo, the housing cracked and I got the brown death sludge and needed to buy a new boat), we installed a new amp the day before, filled it with gas took it on a test run and everything was great!

I head out on Pitt Lake, BC, Canada. Spent four hours out on the water and head back in. It’s a 45 min ride to my marina, we stop in the river on the way back and the boat won’t start. I have full electric, the stereo works, the phone charger works, but she will not turn over. Rrrrrr Rrrrr Rrrrr we flag down a passing boat and they tow us for a bit, but they dropped us half way to the marina and say they need to get on (totally understand and appreciate the help they gave us). We flag down a second boat and they tow us the rest of the way. Couldn’t get the boat into my slip as it’s down a channel and the current. So I tie up at the end of the dock (super dangerous as all the logs hit your boat) and get everyone home.

Call the mechanic to come in the morning to figure out what’s going on (Bring On Another Thousand). I posted in some fb boat groups, and one guy said to check the circuit breaker, that made sense so I drove back to the marina and checked, it wasn’t the circuit breaker. I checked the wiring, disconnected the amp, checked that I didn’t run out of fuel… I tried everything. Then I googled it… and went through the check list… until I saw it, kill switch…. I didn’t check the quickest and easiest thing the KILL SWITCH! Sure enough when I turned the captain chair I pulled out the kill switch!

Long story short… sometimes it’s the easiest fix!