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MONTGOMERY – Due to a lack of proper options and very little guidance from the federal government, Governor Robert Bentley on Monday chose not to confine Alabama to an "essential health benefits" plan under the Affordable Care Act.
Governor Bentley explained his decision in a letter to Secretary Kathleen Sebelius of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
"As you are aware, I am a staunch opponent of the Affordable Care Act," Governor Bentley wrote. "As both a physician and a governor, I have determined that it is irresponsible and short-sighted to make a decision on essential health benefits by confining the decision to a select few plans and without having been offered clear guidance from the federal government."
Under the Affordable Care Act, "essential health benefits" were to be established by states as a foundation for medical coverage in the years 2014 and 2015. However, Governor Bentley said the Affordable Care Act does not present options that consumers need in order to control costs and actually receive higher-quality care.
"I truly believe that in order to control costs, consumers themselves must be a part of any equation. As such, I am a strong supporter of health savings accounts," Governor Bentley said. "Health savings accounts empower the consumer in all aspects of health care decision making. The Affordable Care Act includes many provisions, all supposedly geared toward making health insurance affordable, yet it does not include any significant mention of health savings accounts. I contend that the law does not make health insurance affordable and negatively affects consumer choice."
"Health savings accounts provide what the ACA does not: a consumer-oriented, marketplace-driven option for health coverage," Governor Bentley added.
Without such an option, and without further information from the federal government, Governor Bentley said it would be irresponsible for him to commit Alabama to a specific benefits plan.
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I like the design. Very interesting. I have a gun vault that is different. But it is a Gun Vault. I have it mounted under the front seat of my Blazer. The one I have is a very strong product.
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The safe will deter the casual burgular, but will not deter a determined thief, who will just rip it off the wall, no matter how you mount it. It that happens, you lose you guns, your safe and have wall repairs to do.
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Charles Krauthammer: The return of the real Obama
The rout was complete, the retreat disorderly. President Obama got his tax hikes - naked of spending cuts - passed by the ostensibly Republican House of Representatives. After which, you might expect him to pivot to his self-proclaimed "principle" of fiscal "balance" by taking the lead on reducing spending. "Why," asked The Washington Post on the eve of the final "fiscal-cliff" agreement, "is the nation's leader not embracing and then explaining the balanced reforms the nation needs?"
Because he has no interest in them. He's a visionary, not an accountant. Sure, he'll pretend to care about deficits, especially while running for reelection. But now that he's past the post, he's free to be himself - a committed big-government social-democrat.
As he showed in his two speeches last week. After perfunctory nods to debt and spending reduction, he waxed enthusiastic about continued "investments" - i.e. spending - on education, research, roads and bridges, green energy, etc.
Having promised more government, he then promised more taxes - on "millionaires" and "companies with a lot of lobbyists," of course. It was a bold affirmation of pre-Clintonian tax-and-spend liberalism
Why not? He had just won Round 1: raising rates. Round 2 is to raise yet more tax revenues by eliminating deductions. After all, didn't John Boehner offer him $800 billion of such loophole-closing revenues just a few weeks ago?
To paraphrase Churchill on the British Empire, Barack Obama did not become President of the United States to preside over the liquidation of the welfare state. On the contrary, he is dedicated to its expansion. He's already created the largest new entitlement in half a century (Obamacare). And he has increased federal spending to an astronomical 24.4 percent of GDP (the postwar norm is about 20 percent), a level not seen since World War II.
But this level of spending requires a significantly higher level of taxation. Hence his hardball fiscal-cliff strategy of issuing an ultimatum to Republicans to raise tax rates - or be blamed for a massive across-the-board tax increase and a subsequent recession.
I'll get you the money by eliminating deductions, offered Boehner. No, sir, replied the President. Rates it must be.
Why the insistence?
(1) Partisan Advantage
As I wrote last month, the ultimatum was designed to exploit and exacerbate internal Republican divisions. It worked perfectly. Boehner's attempted finesse (Plan B), which would have raised rates but only for those making more than $1 million, collapsed amid an open rebellion from a good quarter of the Republican caucus.
At which point, power passed from the House to the Senate, where a deal was brokered. By the time the Senate bill reached the House, there was no time or room for maneuver. Checkmate. Obama neutralized the one body that had stymied him during the last two years.
(2) Ideological Breakthrough
Obama's ultimate ambition is to break the nation's 30-year thrall of low taxes - so powerful that those who defied the Reaganite norm paid heavily for it. Walter Mondale's acceptance speech at the 1984 convention promising to raise taxes ended his campaign before it began. President George H.W. Bush's no-new-taxes reversal cost him a second term.
On this, too, Obama is succeeding. He not only got his tax increase passed. He did it with public opinion behind him.
Why are higher taxes so important to him?
First, as a means: A high-tax economy is liberalism's only hope for sustaining and enlarging the entitlement state. It provides the funds for enlightened adventures in everything from algae to Obamacare.
Second, as an end in itself. Fundamentally, Obama is a leveler. The community organizer seeks, above all, to reverse the growing inequality that he dates and attributes to ruthless Reaganism. Now, however, clothed in the immense powers of the presidency, he can actually engage in unadorned redistributionism. As in Tuesday night's $620 billion wealth transfer.
Upon losing the House in 2010, the leveler took cover for the next two years. He wasn't going to advance his real agenda through the Republican House anyway, and he needed to win reelection.
Now he's won. The old Obama is back. He must not be underestimated. He has deftly leveraged his class-war-themed election victory (a) to secure a source of funding (albeit still small) for the bloated welfare state, (b) to carry out an admirably candid bit of income redistribution and (c) to fracture the one remaining institutional obstacle to the rest of his ideological agenda.
Not bad for two months' work.
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Drogön Chögyel Pakpa or Drogön Chögyal Phagpa (Tibetan: འགྲོ་མགོན་ཆོས་རྒྱལ་འཕགས་པ་, Wylie: 'Gro mgon Chos rgyal 'Phags pa, born Lochö Gyäcän (1235–1280), was the fifth leader of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism. He became the first vice-king of Tibet and played an important political role. He was also the guru and spiritual advisor to Kublai Khan, ruler of the Mongol Empire and the Yuan dynasty.
In 1244, Sakya Pandita left[where?] for Prince Godan's royal camp with two of his young nephews, the ten year-old Phagpa and six year-old Chhana, who later published a collection of Sakya Pandita's writings. On the way, they stopped in Lhasa, where Phagpa took the vows of a young Buddhist monk at the Jokhang monastery in front of the statue of the Jowo offered by the Princess Wencheng, the Chinese wife of Songsten Gampo.[1] Sakya Pandita preached sermons along his way and arrived at Prince Godan's camp in 1247 in Lanzhou in the current province of Gansu, where the Mongol troops were exterminating Chinese by throwing them in a river. Sakya Pandita, horrified, gave religious instructions, and in particular that killing a sentient being is one of the worst acts according to Buddha Dharma.[1] He gave religious instruction to the prince and greatly impressed the court with his personality and powerful teachings. He is also said to have cured Prince Godan of a serious illness and, with the help of his nephew, Phagpa, he adapted the Uighur script so that the Buddhist Scriptures could be translated into Mongolian.[2] In return, was given "temporal authority over the 13 myriarchies [Trikor Chuksum] of Central Tibet."
After the death of Sakya Pandita, Phagpa remained at the camp of Prince Godan and learned the Mongolian language. Five years later Kublai Khan asked Godan to give him Chögyal Phagpa, who was then 23, and converted him to Buddhism. Shortly after, Kublai Khan in a succession fight, took over his brother, Möngke, and became the khan, the ruler of the Mongols and even later on became Emperor of China. Kublai Khan in turn appointed Chögyal Phagpa as his Imperial Preceptor in 1260 the year when he was proclaimed emperor of Mongolia. According to Mongol sources, Phagpa was the first one "to initiate the political theology politics of the relationship between state and religion in the Tibeto-Mongolian Buddhist world"[1][3] - that is to say, he developed the concept of the priest-patron relationship. With the support of Kublai Khan, Chögyal Phagpa established himself and his sect as the preeminent political power in Tibet.
Kublai Khan commissioned Chögyal Phagpa to design a new writing system to unify the writing of his multilingual Yuan Dynasty. Chögyal Phagpa in turn modified the traditional Tibetan script and gave birth to a new set of characters called 'Phags-pa script which was completed in 1268. Kublai Khan decided to use the 'Phags-pa script as the official writing system of the empire, including when he became Emperor of China in 1271, instead of the Chinese ideogrammes and the Uyghur script.[1] However, he encountered major resistances and difficulties when trying to promote this script and never achieved his original goal. As a result, only a small amount of texts were written in this script, and the majority (including most official documents) were still written in Chinese ideograms or the Uyghur alphabet.[4] The script fell into disuse after the collapse of the Yuan Dynasty in 1368.[1][5] The script was, though never widely, used for about a century and is thought to have influenced the development of modern Korean script.
Pagspa's diaries for 1271 mention a foreign friend of Kublai Khan, who was quite possibly one of the elder Polos or even Marco Polo, although, unfortunately, no name is given.[6]
Thus began a strong alliance and the capital of Sakya, gDan-sa, became the capital of Tibet. This lasted until about the middle of the 14th century. During the reign of the 14th Sakya Trizin, Sonam Gylatsen, the Central Tibetan province of U was taken by the Myriarch, marking the "beginning of the end of the period of Sakya power in Central Tibet."[7][8]
See also[edit]
- ^ a b c d e Laird, Thomas. (2006). The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama, pp. 114-117.Grove Press, New York. ISBN 978-0-8021-1827-1.
- ^ Norbu, Thubten Jigme and Turnbull, Colin. Tibet: Its History, Religion and People, p. 195. Chatto & Windus (1969). Reprint: Penguin Books (1987).
- ^ F. W. Mote. Imperial China 900-1800. Harvard University Press, 1999. p.501
- ^ Rossabi, M. Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times, p158
- ^ F. W. Mote. Imperial China 900-1800. Harvard University Press, 1999. p.501.
- ^ Klafkowski, Piotr. (1977). "History of Buddhism in Mongolia—A Preliminary Survey", p. 28 and note. Buddhist Studies. The Journal of the Department of Buddhist Studies, University of Delhi. May, 1977.
- ^ Penny-Dimri, Sandra. "The Lineage of His Holiness Sakya Trizin Ngawang-Kunga." The Tibet Journal, Vol. XX No. 4, Winter 1995, pp. 71-73.
- ^ Shakabpa, Tsepon W. D. Tibet: A Political History (1967), p. 86. Yale University Press, New Haven and London.
- Coblin, W. South (2006). A Handbook of 'Phags-pa Chinese (ABC Dictionary Series). University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu. ISBN 978-0-8248-3000-7.


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Just a guess, but I'm willing to bet they'll be set up as a "discount store" or "warehouse store" (even if they technically aren't). Seems to be the case with a lot of places like that. Keep us posted.
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Las Vegas death ray roasts hotel guests
Poolside guests at a newly-opened Las Vegas hotel have been enjoying the complex's quick-tan facility - a solar "death ray" with the power to burn flesh and melt plastic. Artist's rendering of the concave Vdara hotel The architects responsible for the MGM Mirage Vdara underestimated the converging power of the building's …
The lady's horse goes trip trip trip
But the compensation lawyer's horse goes gallopy gallopy gallopy - Ker-ching!
Must... stop... laughing
Did nobody think that it might be a better idea to make the convex side of the building North-facing? Did they not think that building a massive curved mirror IN THE DESERT might focus the sunlight? Or maybe, just maybe, this was the world's best practical joke on the part of the architect...
Close, but no turd shaped assemblage of dried tobacco leaves.
"Did nobody think that it might be a better idea to make the convex side of the building North-facing?"
ITYM South or concave (but not both).
Practical joke, indeed!
"Ah, I see. I hadn't correctly divined your attitude towards your tenants..."
Yes, my bad
I did, of course mean concave. But then my physics A-level was a long time ago...
Ha! ha!
Extra points go to the architect for aiming the death ray onto the pool area! Ha!
The guest was clear prone to using...
hi-tech solutions
Reflective (tin foil) hats anyone? Or umbrellas if it comes to that.
Finally, a directed energy weapon that actually and demonstrably works!
I always knew the Americans will eventually do it if they try hard enough.
I knew I would be the only one to think it
Now we only need to work out how to mount an MGM Mirage Hotel atop a plane and aim it at some missiles
Atop a plane?
How about a shark?
Giant robot
If you've ever watched " Super Dimension Fortress Macross," you'd already know the answer: make the building into a giant flying robot. That'd take care of the aiming bit.
solar panels as cover?
they should build a a cover suporting solar panels that would break even rather quickly .
"...astronomical challenge."
Make stupid plans, blame the Sun.
what an awesome design
Dr Evil's new lair :)
anon cos he will be after me
Dr. Evil
Dr. Evil: "Now Mr. Powers, if you will please have a seat by the pool and remain there for approximately ninety minutes, you will find yourself vaporized. I bid you.. adieu!"
(Maniacal laughter).
Scotty: (Rolls eyes).
On the plus side.....
You can make excellent spaghetti in the pool.
Lovely for a poolside barbecue . . . ummm
Can't they model it?
Surely someone can model the effect, then they could mark out areas on the ground where it will occur over different times of the day and year? Not a fix, I know, but at least then umbrellas could be moved ahead of time and people could be adequately warned.
Yes but...
Surely they'd have modelled that *before* building the damned thing!
I hope the umbrellas are flame proof
If they're not careful every day they'll have a bunch of umbrellas turn to ash and a visit from the local fire dept.
the annular pattern is obvious.
Hi-tech solutions
"the Vdara is mulling hi-tech solutions"
Have they considered "Warning the guests"?
...it looks so pretty!
"This is quite literally an astronomical challenge. We are dealing with a moving target." Technically true, but it's not like the path of the sun across the sky is an unknown, for any season. define a parabolic walled garden area, do something useful on it, solar cells or water heating, claim to be environmentally friendly, feature not flaw, etc.
Flames because...well, stay in the deathray too long and burst into flames :D
Re: but...
>"...We are dealing with a moving target." Technically true
Depends on how technical you care to get. Relatively it is false. It as long been accepted, even by the church, albeit reluctantly, that the earth moves around the sun hence the sun is a stationary target. In addition the trajectory of the focus point on any given day is due more to the rotation of the earth than any perceived movement of the sun.
As a lad, my dad used to love telling me of his calculation that if everyone in a football stadium produced a small mirror and focussed the sunlight onto the referee, they could vapourise him.
Maybe it's a slight exaggeration, but I bet you could really piss him off.
Not in England. Not enough sun.
I'm still wiping the tears out of my eyes. This must be the funniest cock-up ever, and the beauty of it is that there is little that can be done about it other than marking an area unusable. It's an epic, real live, god-knows-how-many-floors-high monument of a cock-up.
Which dipswitch of an architect hasn't learned about concave and convex?
Hahaha, I would not believed that from a James Bond plot, let alone in real life. LOL...
Thanks for making my day..
Little that can be done
There's something that can be done - mount the building on a big pivot and turn it into a useable, aimable deathray! It's fortunate that MGM owns the majority of the Vegas strip and as such doesn't have many buildings that it could contemplate blowing up..
re: your James Bond comment - you missed Die Another Day then, specifically the Icarus project? Understandable as you were probably p1ssing yourself laughing at the ridiculous invisible car :)
icarus what?
you mean the plot they ripped off from diamons are forever? complete with identical sateellite design? there's a reason they dumped that director and rebooted the series after that abortion of a film.
Open the windows
With windows opened and pointing in a different direction the focus effect goes away. Bit too simple I guess?!
You'll not find many hotels in Vegas where you can open the windows, as this is a fairly recent build I'd guess that none of the windows open.
Open the window at a casino? Are you crazy?
So the guy that just lost his life savings can jump out? No way.
He might kill a paying customer on the patio below.
Oh, really?
"Absher explained that there's no easy fix for the problem, "
There are no problems which cannot be solved by judicious use of high explosives.
"Defusing a bomb" being the obvious exception to that rule
Actually, not true
Many bombs are "defused" by setting off an explosive device on a large water tank beside them - a "Projected water disruptor". A shaped charge blasts water into (and through) the supposed bomb, and tada! No more bomb.
You owe me a new keyboard
Or at least a keyboard cleaning kit - classic!
...because she's got hot curves too!
Where Archimedes failed
A stupid architect succeeded.
Exeter had the same phenomena!
A building in Exeter (Renslade House?) exhibited the same phenomena ....Crossing the Northern bridge across the river Exe one would receive a blast of radiation from the concave office block at certain times........despite best efforts it never melted a plastic bag but it certainly provided a welcome blast of heat on a chilly day......
I never knew that.
and I live in Exeter too! But as others have said, there isn't enough Sun in the UK to do any damage :)
Possible fixes?
a) Alter the angle of the individual window panels so that they point up, or outwards. Or, you could get really clever and make them steerable, see b)
b) Put a solar collector above the affected area, either photo-voltaic or simple water heater. If you go with steerable window panels in a), it needn't be enormous. Not cheap, but it'll pay for itself eventually and you'd probably get a grant off the government.
c) Put a non-reflective coating on the affected windows. Cheap-ish, but the heat has to go somewhere so it'll pummel the air con, and the rooms will be darker.
Talk to the Spaniards, they just built a power station that does this deliberately. I think there's a couple in the US, too.
France FTW
"The term "solar furnace" has also evolved to refer to solar concentrator heating systems using parabolic mirrors or heliostats where 538 °C (1,000 °F) is now commonly achieved. The largest solar furnace in the world is at Odeillo in the Pyrenees-Orientales in France, opened in 1970."
Flames... "'cause it's hot." [BOC]
Re Alan Edwards: Just correcting your point (b)
b) Put an **unpainted aluminium** canopy above the affected area .... **cheap**
Cue oblig Thunderbirds quote...
in old man voice:
"It will be a great disaster"...
google the episode where the solar mirror to beam the sun's rays into a dark alpine valley falls over when struck by lightning and the next day starts a fire when the misdirected reflections hit a thatched roof...
I'd lay good odds that this place will show up in the next series of CSI.
Turn a problem...
...into a feature. World's largest sundial anyone? Place tubs of water in the appropriate place, when they start to boil it's time to head to the bar...
That building is huge! Who the hell thought that blocking 70% of the reflected solar energy was in any way going to reduce it to a reasonable level?
Once they realised they had built a massive solar furnace, why didn't they decide to use it instead?
Hmmm here's an idea!
Instead of putting up umbrellas or plants, why not make a grid of solar cells that can offer some shade and convert that sun energy in to electricity.
The upside is that marketing could spin this as a way to make the building greener and reduce their operating costs. Plus they probably could get a tax credit too.
Simple solution that the hotel could afford and get some good publicity out of it.
right on
If you are looking for a cost effective solution you have to install solar panels over the affected area. At least most of it. There could be days when the extra heat might be welcomed. And certainly anyone is smart enough to move to the shade when they are beginning to boil off their sweat.
Large plants?
Of the solar thermal variety I suspect.
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1995 38 (ft.) MANTA 38 Sail Catamaran
Inactive - This listing is not for sale at this time
General Information
Listing# 141621
- Price
- $194,900.00
- Location
- Unknown, Bahamas
- Manufacturer
- Boat Type
- Sailboat
- Model Year
- 1995
- Category
- Catamaran
- Designer
- Manta
- Model
- 38 Sail Catamaran
- Status
- Used
- Length
- 38 (ft.)
- Beam
- 21
- 38
- Hull Material
- Fiberglass
- Fuel Type
- Diesel
- Engine Model
- Number of Engines
- 2
- Engine Type
- Inboard
- Engine Hours
- 3400
General Details
"What If" is a fully rigged and Blue Water Cruise ready
This vessel has been continuously upgraded and updated
by her present owners.
Please read the full specs to see everything that was done.
She has the optional Spinnaker Package, Water Maker,
(2) Air Conditioning Systems, 200 Watt Inverter/Charger,
(2) Sets of Solar Panels and
Full Array of NEWER Electronics, Sails and Rigging.
She can be seen in the Bahamas and
is coming to Florida the first week in May 2014.
If you are in the market for a real nice Catamaran for
under 200K .... this must be on your list.
Owners want her sold NOW !!!
Bring all offers.
- Accommodations Overview
- This high performance, well built, dependable vessel sleeps (6) comfortably in three Staterooms. The Port Hull features the Owner's Suite with Master Stateroom and Head with separate shower. The Starboard Hull features an aft VIP Stateroom and a forward Guest Stateroom. A Guest Head is shared and built-in bookcase lines the companionway. Fully air conditioned. Varnished teak moldings. Louvered teak doors in staterooms and heads. Teak and holly plywood cabin soles. White laminate walls and cabinets offset by teak trim. White vinyl headliners. Formica countertops. Berths and seating surfaces have upholstered cushions. Each berth has a hypervent base to prevent mold and allow airflow. Fans in all cabins and heads. 12V Outlets and 110V Outlets. 6'4" Standing headroom.
- Salon / Dinette / Nav Station
- Salon / Dinette is open to the Galley. Curved settee with upholstered seats offers comfortable seating for (6). Batteries, (1) air-conditioning unit and the refrigeration unit located under seating. Oval wood table can be raised or lowered for dining or entertaining. (2) Moveable upholstered seats with storage. Wet locker and TV cabinet. Built-in Clarion stereo/CD player with (2) speakers. (2) Screened hatches. (1) Moveable fan that plugs into one of the (4) 12V outlets. Large windows with excellent visibility with Phifertex screens. Lexan locking cabin entrance door with screen. Nav Station Chart table with a lift top has ample storage, chart light and (2) repeater Autohelm instruments for Wind/Depth and GPS coordinates. Electrical panel below the chart table with easy access to all wiring, 200 watt Inverter Charger and (2) Solar Panel Regulators.
- Galley
- U-shaped Galley. Very large refrigerator/freezer with excellent insulation powered by a Nova Kool air-cooled 12 volt unit. Seward Princess three burner stove and oven. Locker for microwave with its own 110 plug. Double stainless sink with gooseneck faucet and soap dispenser. Upper and lower storage cabinets. Teak paper towel holder. (3) Lights for great illumination. (2) Additional 110v plugs plus a 12 volt plug. (1) Fan.
- Port Hull / Owner's Suite
- Owner's Master Stateroom is aft. Port side companionway includes a large pantry and 5' long bookshelf/storage area. Private head forward with full shower. Queen size berth. Dressing area with seat with upholstered cushion and storage below. Double cedar-lined closet. (4) Storage drawers. (2) Additional storage lockers. Overhead opening hatch with screen. Opening ports with screens. Owner's Head and Shower Manual marine toilet. Vanity with sink, Formica countertop and storage below. Mirrored storage cabinet. Separate extra large stall shower with shower wand and curtain. Overhead opening hatch with screen. Opening port with screen.
- Starboard Hull / Guest Staterooms / Guest Head
- The VIP Stateroom is aft. The Guest Head can be accessed from the companionway or the Guest Stateroom forward. Large bookcase in companionway. Aft VIP Stateroom Queen-size berth. Dressing area with seat with custom upholstered cushion and storage below. Cedar-lined hanging locker. (2) Storage drawers. Overhead opening hatch with screen. Opening port with screen. Forward Guest Stateroom Contoured double-size berth. Large storage area under berth. Seat with upholstered cushion with storage under. Hanging lockers. Reading lights. Overhead opening hatch with screen. Opening port with screen. Guest Head Electric marine toilet. Vanity with sink, Formica countertop and storage below. Storage cabinet. Separate shower area. Opening port with screen.
- Electronics, Navigation and Communication Equipment
- Raymarine ST6002 Smartpilot Autopilot Controller - NEW July 2011. Raymarine SPX 10 Smartpilot Course Computer - NEW June 2011. Raymarine RS130 GPS Unit - NEW October 2012. Raymarine Type 1 Linear Drive - NEW Feb 2013. Raymarine ST60 Plus Wind Instrument - NEW 2011. Raymarine ST60 plus Tridata Depth/ Speed - NEW December 2011. Raymarine SL700RC Plus Chartplotter with charts covering the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays to Trinidad. Raymarine Pathfinder 9S Radar.Clarion CMD6 Marine Radio - NEW April 2011. ACR Satellite 406 EPIRB - NEW August 2012. Communication Equipment ICOM IC-M504A VHF Radio with additional mike at Nav Station chart table in Salon - NEW 2012. Bitstorm Bad Boy Long-range WiFi Antenna - NEW May 2011. Standard Horizon VHF Handheld Radio.
- Electrical
- Trojan 105 6 volt wet cell batteries - provides 880 amp hours total - NEW March 2011. Xantrex Link 2000 Battery monitor. (2) Kyocera 135 watt solar panels - NEW 2011. (4) Kyocera 80 watt solar panels. (2) Blue Sky 2512I Solar Boost controller for solar panels - NEW June 2010. Extra 150 amp alternator on port engine with Balmar MC external regulator - NEW September 2011. Heart Interface Freedom 20 - 200 watt Inverter/ Battery charger. (7) 12 volt Caframo fans. (2) 50' 30 amp 110 volt Shore power cords. (2) 50 amp to 30 amp Shore power splitters. (3) Nicro solar powered vents on aft stateroom and main cabin hatches.
- Plumbing Equipment
- EchoTec 240, 12 volt Water Maker with mineralizer- NEW 2011. Jabsco Sensor-Max VSD model 31755 4.5gpm fresh water pump - NEW 2012. Shurflo ProBlaster wash down pump. Jabsco Model 37010 Electric head. Jabsco model 21920 Manual head. (2) Jabsco 18590 macerators. Whale Gulper 220 shower pump - NEW 2012. Wema holding tank monitor - NEW 2011. 20 gallon Holding tank on port - NEW in 2011. 15 gallon Holding tank on starboard. All NEW hoses for waste system in 2011. Rainwater collection on Bimini hard top. 100 gallon Aluminum water tank. (2) Whale manual bilge pumps. (2) Rule Electric bilge pumps. (2) Rule High water bilge alarms. Seward 11 gallon hot water tank. Spare fresh water pump. Spare macerator.
- Deck Equipment and Features
- Includes 1994 11' Avon RIB Inflatable with 2006 15hp Yamaha 2-stroke engine. Strataglass dodger with NEW Strataglass - 2011. Sun shades for sides and rear of Cockpit. Adjustable Boatmate Elite Helm chair with footrest. Wrap-around Cockpit seating with cushions. Sling seat. Built-in Cockpit storage boxes. Cockpit speakers. (6) Bomar opening hatches with screens. (6) Portvisor rain shields on side ports. Phantom retractable screen door on companionway. Hot and cold shower on swim steps. All navigation lights and foredeck light. LED anchor light. Lewmar V2 Windlass - NEW 2011. Manson Supreme 45 lb anchor - NEW 2011. 225' of 5/16" High test chain - NEW September 2012. Fortress FX-23 aluminum anchor. Delta 44lb. anchor with 20' of chain and 150 of 5/8 rode. (4) 8" x 22" Taylor fenders. (3) 10" x 26" Taylor fenders. (1) 9" x 24" Polyform fender. (1) 5" x 15" Double fender. (1) 5 gallon Blue water container. (1) 5 gallon Yellow diesel container. (2) 5 gallon Red gas containers. (1) 30' Dock line. (4) 24' Dock lines. Other spare lines (old halyards and sheets).
- Sails and Rigging
- Full batten Mack main sail with two reefs - NEW 2006. Antal track system on main. Full batten Mack jib with self-tacking camberspar - NEW 2006. UK Spinnaker. UK Reacher. Selden Rodkicker boom vang - hydraulics - Replaced 2012. Dutchman Boom Brake. Harken 44.2 self tailing two speed electric winch - NEW Gearbox 2013. Harken 40 two speed self tailing winch. Sunbrella main and jib cover. Main halyard, sheets and reefing lines - Replaced 2012. Jib halyard - Replaced 2012. All running rigging leads to helm. 10 mm Shrouds and forestay - NEW 2013/14. Crewsaver Bosun Chair.
- Mechanical Equipment and Engine Details
- (2) Volvo Penta 29hp MD2030B Diesel Engines - 3400 hours. Port Engine: Extra 150 amp alternator with Balmar MC-614 External Regulator. Starter - Replaced 2013. Muffler - Replaced 2011. Exhaust elbow - Replaced 2012. Saildrive to hull seal - NEW 2011. Starboard Engine: Muffler - Replaced 2012. Exhaust elbow - Replaced 2012. Rear seal - Replaced 2012. (2) CruisAir air conditioning units (seawater pump - replaced 2012). Volvo 2-bladed fixed props - NEW 2012. 100 gallon Aluminum diesel tank. Extensive spare parts for engines. Shop and parts manuals for engines.
- Other Equipment
- (2) 20lb Propane tanks. Spare lines, blocks, shackles and other rigging items. Manuals for all pumps, nav equipment and electronics on board. Maptech Chart kits and software for the East Coast of the U.S.A. Discover Chart kits for the Bahamas.
- Exclusions
- Kayak, kneeboard and skim boards. LCD Television. Gaming consoles. Movie driver. Personal items. Dishes, flatware and cookware.
- Disclaimer
- The Company offers the details of this vessel in good faith but cannot guarantee or warrant the accuracy of this information nor warrant the condition of the vessel. A buyer should instruct his agents, or his surveyors, to investigate such details as the buyer desires validated. This vessel is offered subject to prior sale, price change, or withdrawal without notice.
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