Publishing Tips

Racing Swans

If you are a broker and you want to enlarge your portfolio, and you don't have enough pictures to show on your site, you may appeal to the original site of the brand you're selling. But there might be a problem with that. The great majority of brand yacht name manufacturers has the samples uploaded in Flash, which is making things difficult for you. I know from experience that the petty brokers have minimum experience with site design, and with stealing pictures as well. In certain countries, they steal from each other, more than from the original sites. Not once I met selling customers who doesn't have their boat pictures taken, I mean professionally taken, showing everything interesting for a potential client. You hook your client with the pics. They may even be modified, I've already talked about this in a previous post. But let's come back to the brokers. [source] If they have difficulties using Photoshop either (oh, I've seen color blind guys who can't even erase a name on a digital photo, they didn't "blend" colors to smooth the difference, they just used a "pen" with the default color in whatever program they have to upload the photos from camera, and that was it), it is better to run a search on the engine they use, specially for that brand. It's impossible to not … [Read more...]

New beginning

Beautiful golf

I like it a lot here, on this new domain, the theme I'm having, allowing me not only to use my favorite font, but for the sake of authenticity, to let the older posts transferred from blogspot, to look exactly the same, only better, :) I'll have a schedule, which I'll publish soon, and of course I'm going to heavily promote this blog, as much as I can, having an agenda as well. I'll let you know also who am I admiring, I'll give you all the tips I know in the matter, and I'll pretend very little in exchange, :). You'll see! You don't have much to do else than of asking me. I have received two comments on the original blog, one in the mighty Russian, which I haven't deleted, but now I'm really sorry that I haven't answered or moderated at all, the other one. The reason is that I have neglected the blogspot form. Really annoying platform, I made there my second account, to separate somehow my blogs, but that proved to have had been a wrong move. I had the adsense, though, on the free wordpress this wasn't possible. What I have learned in the mean time, is that one doesn't need adsense if he is in charge of the information. Of course, adsense will never be an impediment, unless is too dense on the page you're offering to the readers. As maybe you already know, I'm a ship … [Read more...]

Back Again (insider tips)

beach with dwarf in SW Turkey

I have to expose now some "secrets" about assessing brokers and boat owners, when approaching them to buy your first boat. Doesn't matter at this stage if you buy a motor boat or a sailing one. Let's presume you don't have the minimum budget for a brand boat, like the samples exposed in my previous posts. They can be "custom" made, definitely no name brands, like the one that I'm going to show you here. This is the boat, as real as it could be. Seeing the name is no help in a better society. This is what you got. No name. You depend exclusively on the broker. Please look carefully at each picture to see the difference. In a better organized society, if the broker spoke beforehand with the boat owner, they'll have at least an agreement, if not a "concrete molded" contract, so he will not start negotiating with you, the client, to "cut off" the broker. What is happening when there are no brand names involved? For example, in a country like Turkey, a foreign customer, and believe me, the farther away he is, the "better" he'll be "treated", there is no way for him to find the real price a boat owner will be happy with. That is the "not written law". If you act alone, you will be told a bunch of lies. The broker has his own price, not even the owner knows. Of course, the … [Read more...]

6 Nautical Terms and other Tips

Boat models by William Froude

Some nautical terms need to be mentioned, this blog is for everybody, not only for specialists. LOA means Length Over All, and is the longest length of the yacht. LWL is the Length of the Water Line. Hull is the shell and framework of the floating part of the boat. As a tip, you can know what could be the approximate speed of a boat, just knowing the LWL. This is called Hull Speed, sometimes displacement speed, and is the square root of LWL in feet, multiplied with a constant, calculated to be 1,34. "v" is measured in Knots (kn), which defines another important nautical term. So, 1 kn is a speed unit representing 1 nautical mile per hour (mph) 1 nautical mile is 1.852 km/h or 0.514 m/s and approximately 1.151 mph. In the modern naval architecture, the hull speed is too "yesterday", more important is considered the Froude Number, or the speed/length ratio, given by this formula: where "V" is the velocity (speed) in kn, and LWL is the length at the waterline. Actually, the Froude Number is where "g" is the gravitational acceleration (this is also a constant, 9.8 m/s²) and "L" is actually the waterline length. [source] I considered this a tip because when you ask for the maximum speed of the boat, you can check the answer by calculating … [Read more...]