Recent content by Megalodon45C

Last weekend had a great fishing trip to the Garden Banks on way home the stbd engine lost power, in the meanwhile thought i had a engine room fire. It was the paint that melted off the exhaust manifolds and several hoses had melted. Cleaned up the mess back at port. Alot of coolent all over...

I was wondering how often my fellow boat owners check the water level in there batteries? I checked and topped mine off with distilled water in june and checked again yesterday and only a couple of cells needed water.

Made a nice fishing trip this weekend. When cleaning up, noticed front carpet in vee berth was wet. So the hunt for the leak started. Found the toilet valve for the guest head was leaking freshwater. Now that i have found the problem it is almost impossible to work in the small acess hole that...

I am currently polishing all the metalwork on the boat. Some pieces with better results than others. Does anyone have any special tricks or waxes/polishes they recommend. Thanks tight lines

I was wondering if anyone has any experience converting the holding tank on a 45C 1990 to fuel and putting a smaller holding tank on board to be legal. I was told my holding tank is like 150 gallons ( someone could correct me if i am wrong). If anyone has any experience any info would be much...

Getting the ole boat ready for the upcoming fishing season. It seems every year i have problems with my dual air horn set up. Seems the saltair/water always gets to the diaphragms. I take the back plate off and i am stuck sanding getting the crud off of the bronze and cleaning out the trumpets...

Well just got finished installing my new bait box freezer. The old compressor finally gave out after 20 years of service. The original freezer compressor was on the stb aft wall in between the generator and the stb sidewall, which made servicing the unit very difficult. I moved the new unit...

I am planning a trip to some of the deepwater floating production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico that are roughly 150nm-165nm offshore to chunk for tuna at night and then troll for a day for billfish. I have made the trip to the the shell auger several times which is roughly 130nm offshore in...

Went to load the boat today for the fourth of july weekend fishing trip and the bait box freezer compressor is finished. I have a 1990 45C the compressor sits to the starboard of the generator in the engine room. I have had no luck today with my AC guy trying to find one here in louisiana...

Well i turned on the autopilot today and she did not work. after some troubleshooting I got to the problem. My rudder feedback mechanism ( the little black box in the lazarette) is shot. I have a 1990 45 hatt with a robertson ap1000 part# RF 100 PN22013106. I know that simrad aquired robertson...

Well this weekend was a good fishing weekend out of Cypremort Point La, we had a nice limit of red snapper and speckled trout, however on the run home I managed to loose my right hand wheel. I have 30*33 rolla's with a 2inch bore, does anyone know where i can find a new wheel, or who to call...

Well i am looking at the shape of my half tower on the boat the other day and it is time to get new canvas, about every three to four years looks like i am doing the same thing. I was thinking about getting a hard top put on. does anyone know if this is possible? will i be able to use the same...

Well i am thinking about upgrading, i love my 45 hatt, but i am thinking about a late model 50ft hatt, I was wondering if anyone had any thought on the cat 3406 and 3412's, the later models after like 2001 hold 1060 and the ones before that hold 890, does not seem like much diesel for these big...

Need some suggestions, my frig is loose at the top. I took off the molding on the top i noticed this angle line screwed into the wall above the unit. Looks like there use to be a shim in between it and the unit but it is gone, so i took some red rubber gasket material and jammed it in between...

Well we made our first snapper trip last weekend with the new rebuilds on the boat, they ran great, we ran them wot for 2 hours to seal the rings as per the mechanics instructions, the only thing wrong now is that the synchronizer is not working properly. THe slave engine is not coming up to...