Goal: Get 3 staterooms, walk around engine rooms, Hatteras quality. Limitation: Ridiculously inexpensive (free) under cover slip with 17 feet wide, 50 feet long (can hang out some though) and overhead that 17 feet 10 inches touches at extreme tides with wind surge. Question: What can I...

Hi All, Haven’t had the time to post anything in quite awhile, been busy with boat things in our all too short season in Michigan. This winter while the boat is on the hard I got a few winter “projects” to do. My list and I will keep it just to the engine room is as follows, pulling the...

I have a Galley Maid 110 Volt and a 32 Volt water pump. Both pumps are plumbed together and have one pressure switch between them. When low on water, the pressure switch doesn't seem to turn off the pumps. They will continue to run the stators dry which I know is not very good for the life of a...

My MDKD has performed reliably for the 6 years I've owned my 43' motor yacht, withone exception. About a year ago, after a couple of attempts to start it in cool weather, the starter circuit went dead. I assumed that I had perhaps overloaded the starting circuit and probably tripped some kind of...

Howdy, About mid dummer we bought a reasonably well cared for 79 43C w' 6V92's. We had her oil coolant and filters changed and took off for the balance of the summer. We plan to fuss over her but I want to be sure my 6V92's are in clean order before I let the missus spend on cosmetics. Anyway, my...

Why? I am (was) considering changing out the gas genny for a diesel unit in our gas powered Sedan. Whats different? Can one get or make a diesel powered generator ignition protected?

I got go run the boat finally after all the exhaust work today. But unofortunetly I now have a new problem. We have some sort of major oil leak on the front side of the starboard engine. It leaked somwhere between a quart and two quarts in a short 20 minute ride. Every thing was running good...

In the restoration of my 34SC I am approaching the point of repowering to diesel. With all the horror stories about fiberglass fuel tanks and ethanol blends, I am leary of moving forward without replacing the fuel tanks. 1) Once FG tanks are flushed and cleaned does that stop the damage from the...

Anybody ever done it (a la Marlow Yacht designs)?

Has anyone tried to translate NMEA 180 to 183 or vise versa? I have a good Robertson AP (NMEA 180) that will not take course deviation corrections from my cheapy GPS (NMEA 183 output). Is there a way to do this cheaply? This Robertson holds a heading great but will not track to way points, etc....