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Mike, Sounds good, thank you. I'm at Brewer Glen Cove fairly regularly - Mark is a customer and friend of mine (I'm a marine electrician). Next time I'm there, I will stalk the Predator. If you'd like me to give you a heads up, e-mail me your cell; I'll send you mine now. Have a Happy Thanksgiving, ...

Mike: Thank you for sharing all of those links. Very nice hardware – you obviously do not mess around with safety. And, as with anchor balls, I now know a thing or two about sea anchors! Seems that you and I use our boats in very different ways. E.g., the closest service to offshore that Stone Pony ...

Yannis, and Tony: Thank you both for clarifying foredeck construction methods. Yannis: Boating in the Med sounds sublime, right up my alley! Someday … Mike: Coincidentally, the anchor ball was a new concept to me until last week, when I saw a guy using one off Montauk Point. Ingenious. This has me r...

Marlin: Thank you. I grew up on a lobster boat, and that’s exactly how my dad handled anchoring. One big advantage he had, though, was the trap hauler! Come to think of it, the 31 might benefit from such an arrangement … :P That prompts me to extol a well-known virtue of the 31, and one of the key f...

All: Thank you for your feedback! John F: No big-water inlets for me, as yet. I’m in Huntington, NY, on the north shore of Long Island. That said, having moved into the B31 from a 24’ Lyman, I believe I’ll be going places I once only dreamed of, so a hole in the stem is definitely cause for concern,...

Hi, Folks, I'm Luke, new to the site. Thank you all for having me. I originally posted this (a few minutes ago) as a reply to an old post about bow pulpits. It now occurs to me that I should have started a new post from the outset. I apologize if the redundancy is obnoxious. I picked up my first B31...