Ha! A salesman I’m not.

Garmin has some very cool stuff for sure (I own a bunch of Garmin gear). They have an excellent autopilot system, but the level of engineering for dynamic positioning the likes of Skyhook / DPS goes way beyond GPS and steering into the engine and propulsion systems.

The pod drives are a little bit mixed. On the one…

That sounds like the Mercury Skyhook system. Sea Ray made that available for some of their outdrive powered boats, as well as larger boats with the Zeus pod drives. A 50+ footer would have been the Zeus drives. Very impressive function, dynamically holds you in place using thrust vectoring of the…

Seakeepers have a reputation for being incredibly reliable.

Um, makes it more comfortable when underway? Most boats are NOT catamarans. Those are VERY wide making docking in a standard slip quite hard. They also give up a lot of hull space, dramatically reducing the amount of available space.

Think about a slower boat like a trawler that cruises at 8-14 mph. They travel long…

Ohh, and now “proportional” thrusters!

Just had those installed on my boat and they’re awesome. I can activate them and they come on at a percent of total power. Lets me hold the boat to the dock while I tie or untie single-handed.

Cruise ships are really too big for a gyro stabilizer. You’d need a series of massive gyros for it to work.

Instead ships like this typically use “active” fin-type stabilizers (plus some passive tech as well). These are literally fins that stick out from the side of the ship and are shaped like wings. The control…

Cruise ships are really too big for a gyro stabilizer. You’d need a series of massive gyros for it to work.

Instead ships like this typically use “active” fin-type stabilizers (plus some passive tech as well). These are literally fins that stick out from the side of the ship and are shaped like wings. The control…

These things are 100% designed to be used underway. They are incredibly robust, and the flywheel disk is sealed in a vacuum.

Yeah, the Seakeeper 1 model is fairly new, bringing the tech to smaller boats. Seakeeper says it can fit under the leaning post of a center console, for example, which is pretty darned small.

I’d love to fit one in my 42 foot Downeast style boat, but I’d have to rearrange some tanks in the engine room.  I don’t need…

My wife’s favorite thing about her 1989 Dodge Raider was the inclinometer. She was very disappointed our Jeep that replaced it didn’t have one.

It was handy to have when you drove around at 10 mph and felt like “Holy hell, this thing is going to flip over!”

My wife loved her GMC Acadia. The current Acadia is much smaller so we got her a Honda Pilot - and doesn’t particularly like it. Too many nanny controls.  She wished we’d gotten a Traverse because it has more room than any other SUV / crossover.

WHY ARE YOU YELLING?

Funny the talk about how millennials don’t buy Harleys.  My 24 year old nephew just traded his Suzuki for a Harley.  All his friends have Harleys too.  

Possibly because of power company limitations? When my system was designed (NY state) we had an upper limit of it’s capacity. To be approved by the utility we had to show our power consumption for the prior year. The PV system output could not exceed our average use over a year. In other words, the utility wants…

I’ll agree the 3 looks better and has more cargo room by far. I do like the traditional setup on the S, but the 3's setup really didn’t bother me at all. The dash of the S is pretty high and I felt like it blocked my view. I’d argue the 3 has a better view and therefore is better for a driver. But then we have race…

Was it? OK. I read it as comparing against both.

That said, SUV is not the same as Sedan. One typically doesn’t seek max performance from an SUV.

It really makes you wonder why you wouldn’t just get the S.

MSF class is an excellent idea. Much better than getting a friend or relative to teach you.

Got mine as soon as I was legally allowed, at 17. Permit at 16 1/2. I had been driving various vehicles since about 11 on the family property, plus my dad let me steer and shift his car from a younger age. The freedom of a full license to go where ever I wanted (in my semi-rural area) and explore was incredibly…