If this photo isn’t enough to scare you I wish that I had a video of the sparks and flames shooting 2 feet out of the cord. I guess the boat owner was too busy with the fire extinguisher to film it. Dangerous Potential A 30 amp shore power cord is the standard for...
Why not…”From The Crow’s Nest”? The other day someone asked me, “Shouldn’t this be titled ’From The Crow’s Nest‘, after all don’t you have a bird’s eye view?” I thought this was a great question. While there’s no doubt my job is to help steer KKMI in a positive...
The Times They Are a-Changin’….But Not Everything As we close out 2016 and enter the New Year it’s time to reflect on the past and look to the future. No matter where you stand, we all recognize that our world has changed in ways we never imagined. For many, I...
“Better be safe than sorry.” How many times have we heard this? Certainly, when it comes to boats and what can go wrong, these words of caution couldn’t be more true. mo Here’s a true story that illustrates the above as recently told to me by a client. This client had...
Alan Almquist, owner of North Star II, a 45′ classic 1928 Stephens and member of Northern California Fleet of Classic Yacht Association, wrote a nice article in Classic Currents, the NCFCYA newsletter. It was so nice in fact that we wanted to share it...
