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Or maybe I should I say, "Cheerio!" (Since we're buying a house in Bath, UK.) The new owners are moving aboard next week; we have just finished packing two vehicles full of boat stuff. Took all day (Where the F$%& did all this S%#T come from?) but we are now relaxing for our last night...

Thought it might be interesting as I do my last maintenance on the boat to provide some info. The pics below show the HEs as I pulled them today. They were last cleaned near the end of last season. The deposits are what occurred essentially over the winter EVEN though I flushed the HE's after...

Engine survey reported engines/trannys "like new" as far as compression on all cyls of both engines/wear/oil/etc. We'll have quite the crowd (for us) on the boat for the sea trial - the two of us, the potential buyers (two), the engine surveyor, the boat surveyor, and Eric (broker). Glad...

Three days ago, before any paperwork was actually completed to list our boat for sale with Bayport Yachts, Eric Horst asked us if he could bring a couple on board on Sunday who were interested in a 53MY having looked at quite a few. We hemmed a bit since the boat was still mostly winterized but...

The way things look at the moment, this may be our last season with a boat for the first time in MANY years. We are planning to relocate to the UK, the city of Bath, to be specific, for a good portion of the year (no, it has nothing to do with Donald - we've been talking about this for 4 years)...

Thought I'd post this since battery info is generally useful... In 2010 I replaced the failing Deka 819's with Deka 8V195s. There's a bunch of info re 819 vs 895s on other posts. I went to the 195s based on a local battery shop's recommendations. They suggested that although they had both...

I relearned the hard way what I learned a few years ago but forgot... In the Sand Bar I posted re low marina voltage at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime museum marina. But I said that everything had worked out ok when we found a dock showing slightly more power - a shade over 200 instead of 198...

Just some info - We spent last night at the Ches Bay maritame museum slips at St Michaels. and again had insufficient electrical power at some of their 240/50A boxes. At the first slip, on F dock, there was approx 198V showing on the boat's OEM meters. The AC unit compressors would try to...

Anybody have an original 32 volt Galley Maid Fresh Water pump laying around that you want to sell? Let me know; I'd like to have a spare.

As many of you know, I have never been a fan of in-place HE cleaning, preferring to pull the HEs and boil them per DD. However, I would like to try the in-place. Im looking at the plumbing, trying to see the most effective way to do this as far as "tapping into" the RW cooling system. I want...

As I posted in a different thread, our boat's current top end with clean bottom/running gear was 17.7 yesterday running in approx 12-20 ft of water at the mouth of the Chester River on the Chesapeake Bay. That was a 2-way average top speed, which didn't really vary much since we were running...

We are considering heading to Charleston/back on the ICW beginning next week. I realize there is a lot of variation but what would be a good expectation of travel time to go down/spend a few days and come back to our marina on Kent Island in the Chesapeake Bay? We would plan to run every day...

The boat's back in the water after the short haul for the insurance survey and everything looked great - there were some of the famous Hatteras pinhole blisters but, as the surveyor said, "you know about these, right? They are totally meaningless as far as the boat structure is concerned."...

We've been having some trouble with shore power at our slip the past few days. The 240/50A service has been tripping the shore circuit breaker with the boat's ammeter showing 38-40A. When I talked to the marina office, the manager asked me if the boat's meter is reading Amps at 120 or 240VAC...

In serving Bloody Marys a few minutes ago, I dropped/broke one of our Hatteras cocktail glasses. I can't remember where I got them almost 10 years ago but I want to order more. Any idea where they came from?

Does anyone know from previous experience if the prop shaft on a 53MY/M20/8V71TI can be disconnected/moved rearward far enough to provide sufficient clearance for the transmission to be removed from the engine without removing the rudder? My starboard tranny has always been slow to engage...

We were on the way back to the marina on the Chester River about an hour ago and, since we were in charted "white" water (plenty of depth) in the same area we were in last time up the Chester (last season), I must admit I wasn't paying a lot of attention to the depth finder. Suddenly, much...

Yesterday I recommissioned the engines, reinstalling the water pump impellers (I pull them for winterizing) and, after some checks, I fired 'em up! They both started instantly and oil pressure came up normally on the engine-room gauges. I went out to check that water was flowing from the...

Just got notice from Gowrie that it's time to do another survey for insurance purposes. Last one was 5 years ago (every 5 years). There's always SOMETHING with boats... even if there's nothing. ;) Last time we did it the surveyor found nothing at all to write up so he asked me if there was...

I recall this coming up before but can't seem to find it... The underside of the galley floor above the genny room and the underside of the floor in the salon over the Eng rooms has insulation that sort of looks like compressed fiberglass insulation with a white, textured outer surface. I have...