Well, at 10:30 last night, I finally finished flushing the Cascade out of the F/W side, and removing the side plates from my heat exchanger. I believe it was Genesis in an earlier thread who told me that I had to "coax" the core out. Well, the core is in there pretty solid. I let it be, as I was...

As many of you know (these vices are frequently shared, I guess), I am also a car collector in a small way, so I take a number of journals (what we physicians call magazines) in the collector car field. The best of these is Sports Car Market, which is knowledgable, irreverent, timely, and...

An interesting new development, on occasion the central alarm monitoring panel will sound and the 'AC pwr' light will come on, but, the AC power is working fine, lights are on, air conditioning runs, etc. Pushing the silence button switches off the noise and shortly thereafter the red light goes...

We have an 11ft Avon RIB for our dink. It works well for us and mounts on the FB, raised/lowered with our davit. It has a 6 HP Tohatsu motor which I bought a couple of years ago. The motor has been excellent as far as operation is concerned but it is too small for the dink. I'm thinking of...

I found a homemade original "operations manual" for a boat named "Goodie Two Screws" aboard. It's definitely a Galley-up four stateroom 58, but I don't think it was originally for my boat because it speaks of a sliding aft door. I have scanned it, but the file is too large (16 pages .pdf) to...

Hey Pascal...I haven't been able to see the Hat Cam pictures lately. I just get the box with the red X. i right click and select show picture. No change. How else can I check the weather at my kid's house.

Three years ago I rebuilt my Starboard Hydreco tranny pump to correct a minor pressure issue. At the time I bought two rebuild kits, intending to rebuild the port just to maintain symmetry. But I never did it...until today. I discovered that a howling noise that I have heard periodically on...

I am in the process of purchasing a 1972 43 Double Cabin - Survey and sea trial done yesterday). One problem we encountered was that Line 2 was not getting power. I believe this is why the Heat and A/C were not being powered. Tried just about everything, even checked the breakers and electrical...

Dr Jim and I took Brigadoon out for quick cruise to see what difference the new painted bottom, brand new oem Hatt props (spares that came with the boat in 1980 - never unwrapped) , and clean HEs did. The boat hit 17.8K against the current which was about a knot so it should be an honest 18K...