Just got a repair estimate from ITT on the 1977 Jabsco searchlight on my YF. Ouch! Will cost at least $1300 to replace both motors, clutches, all seals, etc. Time to look for a replacement and I am hoping that I can get some recommendations from the group. Some ideas on what intensity (CFP) to...

A friend who has a 53 is looking to replace one of his Galley Maid heads with one of these because the wife finally put her foot down about the noise of the galley maid. Does anyone know if these are truly quiet and had any experiences with them?

Hello everyone Iam new to this site and have ? I hope someone can help me with . Iam looking at two boats one has MTU8v396te in her and the other has 12v183te in her . are they any good ,do they last, ect I"ve always been a cat men so any thing anyone can tell me would be such a big help . ...

On my 71 53MY am looking at Raymarine and Simrad for my applications in a system upgrade. The 53 w/o an arch always had the array placed on the port side below the flybridge on the mid deck as I have an older Furuno their. My question is emissions not cost or how it looks . The Simrad Broadband 4G...

Does anybody else have this divider in their forward locker? It doesn't look original, but I'm not sure if it supports the A/C evaporator. So I thought I'd see if it belongs there before I rip it out and have the air handler fall into the bilge.

I swear I have the WORST luck with air conditioning! I got a whole three days of running out of a brand new 16K self-contained unit (ran it in cool mode for 1 day, then heat mode for 2 days). Now, the compressor is seized. Everything else is working just fine - fan, pump, digital control,...

You guys are to be commended for being experts. Am looking to buy a Hat 54 MY. Come from a Silverton 40 and Californian 48 background (plus lots of small blowboat racing as a kid which I try to forget). I was wondering in reading the threads on range. I believe you said that 8 or 9 knots with...

Hi all, Helping a friend sort out his non-functioning searchlight. The speed control is frozen (corroded)- so tthe thing moves (replaced 8-way switch), but is stuck on fast. This "pot" is no longer available, but seems to be a 1-turn, linear pot- but I can't determine what the ohm value should...

I just received a cruisair R16c split system condenser and i am trying to find a schematic on connecting up my existing smx2 A-285 control module. Does anyone have a schematic for this? Thanks in advance.

Been a Mech my whole life and just started thinking about this today.Had to buy oil for our first oil change sence we got the boat.It hasent been run as much as I would like.When I bought oil at the Cat place today ,Damn near $27 per gallon it got me thinking about oil change intervals.Cat says...