Recent content by Kim Beatley

Pressurized water in my 36c today. Toilet filled up and over flowed. Normally to add water to toilet, you have to push button which activates another pump. Then you push second button to drain. Is it the toilet fill pump that is allowing water to bypass or ie toilet itself? Any thoughts before...

Last winter, I forgot to turn on the heaters in the engine compartment. Hard sub-0 freeze. I have most parts fixed. Now to tackle the original 1972 fiberglass freshwater tank that is located between the stringers at midship. Has anyone tackled a repair/replacement of this tank? Looks like part...

My 1972 Quicksilver 7.5 kw unit finally bit the dust. Actually, I let it freeze last winter, (kicking myself). Antifreeze everywhere when it used to run. As it has been sitting for a season, it will no longer start. Marine Yard says they can get it running, but finding parts for cooling system...

The plastic in my fly bridge canvas is scratched and foggy. Are there products on the market that can be used to clean/clear up plastic?

Went to power up water system on 1972 Hatteras and found this device spewing water everywhere. I am assuming it is a pressure regulator. Does anyone know specifics about this device, operational parameters and where to find a new one?

Inspecting bilge and components yesterday. Shaft log clamps are looking pretty corroded. Do not know if they have ever been replaced on my 72 Hatt. What is expected life? Recommendations on replacement. Looks like access is going to be a real pain.

Jim, those are the original windows. Attached photo is of new windows.

I do not know if I posted this FACT or not, but my work has taken me out of the country. I am now living in Saudi Arabia. Initially my assignment was for six months, but looks like it is going to get extended for at least two, possible up to 4 years. I was asked this week to move to Qatar at the...

Have been in SA now since the first of December, (except for the week of Christmas). ... Did not know it could be so cold and rainy in the desert. Nothing here is designed with drainage, so at the end of a down pour, tanker trucks show up and pump water out of the road intersections. Marina...

Well, I just made a life decisions that will keep me occupied for well over a year. After just returning from a month duty in Saudi Arabia, I signed up for another six months in country, likely expanding to two years. There is some much clean up work to be done from the 1991 Iraq war. We may...

I am holding water in the bilge, at midship starboard side of of my 36C Hatteras. (Right at the bulkhead where the salon steps down to the lower section of the boat, next to the fiberglass water tank.) It is about 2 to 3 inches deep. I have tried to clean out all the piping that was glassed into...

I have a Good Windless on my '72 -36C. I assume it it is originial equipment as I do not see any evidence of it being changed out. It still works but winch/pully, that the anchor rope passes through is beginning to slip. Is there any way to tighten up the tension on the rope puller unit...

Had to haul boat this week for insurance survey, just six weeks from splashing with new bottom job and new zincs. To my surprise, shaft zincs were half gone. Can someone provide advice on Galvanic Isolators? Or, provide other suggestions that may extend life of zincs. Note, I have visuall...

Hauled the boat this week. Soda blasted the bottom in preparation for new paint. upon inspection, at the very deepest part of the keel, just under where the shafts exit the engine room, about an inch from the bottom was about an 8 inch crack in the glass. it looked like it had been crushed when...

I am sure this has been discussed, but I have not had time to research archives. My boat bottom is a mess; slime and little hard shell critters everywhere. I have had a diver on the boat at least once a month and as often as 2 1/2 weeks. After last cleaning, diver informed me there was no paint...