Living Well

You hear about asylum seeker boats being intercepted off the coast of Australia almost every week, but how many are estimated to get to Australia undetected?

None, basically. It’s next to impossible to bypass the Royal Australian Navy, not to mention that landing on our north coast without a prepared connections is just suicidal. You’ll either be in the desert, hundreds of kilometres from the nearest town (or even road), or in the rainforest, which is just crawling with crocodiles and other things looking to kill you. Or in Darwin, which… let’s face it, is hardly more bearable.

Asylum seekers don’t want to get by undetected, they want to be picked up and get onto our soil so they can officially file for asylum. There is a difference between asylum seekers and illegal immigrants.

Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested?

Ha! That was the first one I thought of. My friend has a boat he named "Seas the Day". Kinda corny. I’ve heard of boat’s named "The Office," so guys can tell their wives they’re going to the office.

Did you put the answer in the DB? I’m going to go look!

Goldie

Noticed a circular devise installed in the windows of all the crab boats on Deadliest Catch. Wondering what is the purpose of the hardware?

I’ve seen them, too — a white plastic-looking ring with a lead or wire leading down. They’re usually seen in the wheelhouse windows very near the captain’s chair. Seems like most of the boats have them. While I’ve never heard anyone say what they are, I’ve always assumed they are some kind of emitter or receiver. It looks to me like it could be a wire or metallic element on or embedded in a window cling (like a decal). If I had to make a guess, I’d say it’s probably an antenna for one of the many communication devices they’ve got jammed into the wheelhouse.

I am looking to find something cheaper than the 6 ppl for 550 smaller boats. I would like to find some kind of cattle boat that hold 15-30 people in order to make it more affordable.

http://www.edwardjohnperchfishing.com/ ~good luck catchin’

Like everyone anchors their boats down and you all just hang out and party on everyone’s boat?
It’s just at regular lakes, there’s no decks or anything, it’s just a random part of the lake all the boats gather at.

a marina maybe?

Poor fishermen die because they can’t hang on to their expensive capsized boats.

Many fishing boats do have a full complement of survival gear on board. It just depends on what the owner/captain wants to invest in. 2 extra downriggers or a liferaft and epirb.
Priorities … You makes your decisions and you lives or dies by them.

well i would like to find some boats that my brother and i can use for the pool. We want to find some 6-10 inch durable boats. I woujld prfer cargo ships, or something of that sort. Thanks for the help everyone links are welcome!

There are some great hobby quality boats that are good for pools available from mail order hobby stores. Try looking at the following sites:
www.horizonhobby.com
http://search.horizonhobby.com/index.jsp?sid=128F6037783C&Ne=5000&Ntt=boats&N=532+5790&vno=72
www.towerhobbies.com at http://www.model-ships.com/
or www.advantagehobbies.com

You can also find some great pool boats at local hobby stores, both free sailing and radio controlled. Ask at your local hobby store, they can probably show you a catalog and bring something in stock that is exactly to your liking.

How long would it have taken the boats carrying 500 slaves sailing the middle passage from africa to the sugar plantations duringthe slave trade around the 1700s?

Turn around to Europe of the boats from North America was measured [then] to be six months. This, depending on the weather conditions, weight and also other external factors [e.g pirates along the way & militia]

Given the recent Iranian provocation of the US Navy with speed boats, what is the likley US navy response if they got too close? IM guessing that even if Iran sent 100’s of these small boats the US navy would just machine gun them away. Surely the Iranians dont think they could succeed in blowing up a US Navy warship?

I have been in this situation before on a destroyer. All I can say is that all ships have heavy caliber machine guns manned 24/7 in the gulf. Where that incident occurred the ships were at, they’re normally at the highest level of defensive readiness. I have personally manned a gun mount in that area of the world and with out getting into specifics it’s dependent on proximity, visual cues of threat (weapons, persons, and actions), and rules of engagement due to real world intelligence. The US Navy normally practices engaging that kind of contact. If you want to know how bad we could f#@K them up I’ll tell you this… 1 billion dollar destroyer/ cruiser vs a speed boat… who wins??? Rambo’s M-60 is pretty effective against that threat and there’s a few of those on deck when we’re there and that’s one of the lightest weapons on deck. Pretty much those retards were looking brave for the cameras because if they were a real threat they’d be sucking di#@s in hell.

I need a good builder with luxury and fast cigarette boats. Absolute best builder.

Donzi