Recent content by silverback

Anybody have a good explanation as to the cause of "haloing" of paint around thru hull sensors, such as a depth sounder sender?

I am under contract on my 1968 Hatteras. A lender has questioned whether there is asbestos in the boat. Never heard of such of a thing. Anybody???

Re: “Keel walking” on series 1 convertibles Glad to see this thread. I am seriously considering selling my 38' Hat. Captains Lady. It is killing me because I have put 25 years of blood, sweat and tears in her. The issue, re power. The real cost? She has 8V53's in her and I want to put...

Anybody have an idea what would cause brown rusty water form radiator/coolant reservoir?

Our Captains Lady on the hook Double Breasters, Abaco, Bahamas

It is harder and harder to find a really good Detroit mechanic who knows his stuff on old Detroit. I have 853 V naturals. I am OK until time for pulling injectors, timing the rack, etc. Anybody know of a solid, good guy. I used to call Willie out of Ft. Pierce but he doses not seem to want to...

Thought I would post the picture of the gear that failed. It was explained to nme that the round assembly that holds the rear of the gear has tension spring flat metal parts (for the sake of a better explanation) over time this metal parts lose their tension and that caused the gear to start to...

I was running at 2550 RPM, 17.2 knots when all of a sudden the starboard engine lost RPM rapidly; and thick, very thick copper gold colored smoke poured out of the ehaust. The engine then tried to find RPM with the tach ranging from 800 to 1500 RPM . I shut the engine down and discovered that...

I have the opportunity to repower my 1968 38 ft Hatteras Convertible with 440 HP Yanmars. Anybody go down this road before?