How much is 8 B.U. in US dollars or Canadian dollars? ---- Original message ---- >Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:56:12 -0400 >From: "MICHEL MARION" <memarion@sympatico.ca> >Subject: Re: T&T: Modifying a Single Screw Rudder >To: krogenguy@comcast.net, trawlers-and-trawlering@lists.samurai.com > >Tom: > >We have a new-to-us 60-ft custom steel trawler, single-screw, and are in >the process of making rudder modification (articulation) to address issue >of control at low speed, particularly in following seas. (She has bow & >stern thrusters). Work will get done within next 2 weeks, at the shipyard >where the vessel was built - Yachtsmiths Int'l in Nova Scotia, and using >design ideas described in October PMM. Design work completed, by E.Y.E. >Marine in Halifax, N.S. > >Total estimated cost - design, material, fabrication, haul-out, >installation etc around 8 B.U. They are using parts of the existing >rudder. > >Hope to report back on initial impressions shortly. Full assessment only >next year. But if resuts are anything like those achieved on the Nordic >Tug, should be great. > >Good luck with your decision. > >Michel > >>Has anybody with a full displacement, single screw boat ever modified >>the rudder by the addition of end plates and/or wedges on the >>trailing edge to improve the the slow speed handling?>Thanks, >>Tom >>Aventura >>KK-42 #204 >>krogenguy@comcast.net >>_______________________________________________ >_______________________________________________ >http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/trawlers-and-trawlering > >To unsubscribe or modify your subscription options (get password, change email address, etc) go to: http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/options/trawlers-and-trawlering > >Trawlers & Trawlering and T&T are trademarks of Water World >Productions. Unauthorized use is prohibited.

> How much is 8 B.U. in US dollars or Canadian dollars? > Assuming the original writer was referring to 8 BU USA, it is equal to $8000USD or $7920CAD. Note that for the first time in 35 years the Canadian Dollar is worth more than the US Dollar. I wonder why that is? It makes looking at my 2002 edition of Skipper Bob's booklet on doing the Canadian canals very painful. He writes that the season pass will be $300 Canadian which is only $200 US, heh, heh, heh. NOw it'll cost $303 US. And "be sure to pay the St Lawrence Seaway Locktender with a Canadian $20, instead of a US $20", no longer works. -- Jim Ague

Sunday, September 30, 2007, 3:43:24 PM, Henry wrote: HQ> How much is 8 B.U. in US dollars or Canadian dollars? 8 Kilobucks. -- Peter Bennett, VE7CEI Vancouver, B.C., Canada Ennos 31 "Honeycomb" GPS and NMEA info: http://vancouver-webpages.com/peter Vancouver Power Squadron: http://vancouver.powersquadron.ca