I’m not in NYC, but could use this when I live. There’s an ahole that has a modified loud-ass fart can exhaust the likes to goose it behind my house at various hours. Then make a loop around the area just to make noise. It’s highly annoying, especially when it interrupts breakfast, dinner, sleep, Teams meetings,…
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Like a bazillion other people, I worked at a McDonalds as a teenager. My time was in the 90's. Those era machines didn’t have software or auto clean cycles. They were all mechanical. To clean it out you took apart about 150 orings, seals and other parts and ran a big bucket of sanitizer through the system. The…
Check your Google Maps for Dairy Queen my friend. There are now 6 on Long Island, and more in NJ and CT. My fam is quite happy there’s one a few miles from us. If in Manhattan you do seem to be out of luck though.
Was in Death Valley last week on a tour of Western parks and saw 127 degrees. Leaned against the (shaded) concrete wall of the toilet at Badwater Basin and burned my hand. I don’t care if it’s a “dry heat”; 127 is damn hot and no joke.
This is described sleeping on a boat too, which is also awesome.
Jeez, the rails actually jumped up from the impact! Something toward the right side of the bridge actually popped up a few feet. I hope to heck the inspectors to a thorough job - I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the rail hold downs were dislodged.
1st Gen GMC Acadia has the battery in a similar location - under a panel by the right middle-row passenger’s feet. Also has terminals on the firewall in the engine bay for jump starts.
1st Gen GMC Acadia has the battery in a similar location - under a panel by the right middle-row passenger’s feet. Also has terminals on the firewall in the engine bay for jump starts.
This thought seems right. I had a 1987 Taurus with the electronic dashboard and speedo. Was disappointed to find on a big downhill section of I-78 that it maxed out at 85.
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…
It would be really helpful if Netflix had a profile export function. I was willing to get my own account until their customer service told me they have no way to import my viewing history from a shared account profile to a new account of my own. I’m not keen on having Netflix relearn a decade of viewing history to…