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Okay...how do I do this? Detroit 12v71 manual says drain the fuel, remove the bolt, change the filter, fill 2/3 with fuel, reinstall, then "remove plug on top and fill completely." Which of these fittings is the plug?

I plan on installing a small piece of gear tomorrow and it'll be my first electronic addition to the boat. I need a 12v source, and I'm assuming since I have several DOA bits of kit in the upper dash at the lower helm that I have some 12v sources to choose from. I *think* this yellow block...

There is a weird heating plate in one of the wall cabinets in the galley in our new-to-us boat. It has been driving my wife crazy, so I disassembled part of the cabinet this morning to uninstall it.The wires run down behind the cabinet and I cannot tell where they are coming from, so I cannot...

So we’re in Slidell doing boat projects this weekend, and it’s been raining on a biblical scale since we got here. We’ve got a few drips we need help locating the sources of. There’s one above the kitchen sink, coming out of the headliner. Also one in the midship stateroom coming out of the...

Hey folks - so we had our first real gremlin while approaching Slidell two weeks ago. We're headed back tomorrow to spend the weekend doing some boat projects, and chief on my list is solving this new issue. After several days of running all day with no issues (and several weeks of running all...

Our new-to-us 1983 61 CPMY has a non-functional Datamarine Depth Sounder at the lower helm station. We currently have ZERO capability to see our current depth, other than whatever Navionics shows on our iPads. This makes us both fairly nervous. I stopped by the local marine electronics house...

Our new-to-us 1983 61 CPMY has a mostly non-functional Furuno setup I need some help with. The upper helm station has a smallish Furuno NavNet display in a pod. I didn't see a model number on the unit, but I'd say the color display is about 6x10, maybe? The unit powers on, and I can get a couple...

We've got plenty of water pressure inside the boat (1983 61 CPMY), but the water pressure at the washdown fittings (bowsprit and cockpit) are both a little low for actually washing things down. Is the pump pressure adjustable? If so, what's a safe max PSI? If not, is there another way to get...

We are getting to know our new-to-us 1983 61 CPMY. One of the things I already find aggravating is having to go down to the fuel tanks to directly read the tank levels. The cork sender assemblies are finicky at best, and the previous owner resorted to a wooden yardstick to measure actual fuel...