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I was wondering if these are the original design for the three forward hatch/skylight covers (1976 46C)? It looks like they were layed up as a single panel/piece of fiberglass with the center area just not painted in order to allow light through. As you can see, they are in pretty bad shape or...

Had a trip planned this past Friday to head out to try some night time sword fishing. Cleared the channel to the marina and went to set my initial heading into the autopilot when I realized that it wouldn't power on. On closer inspection, I noticed that there were droplets of water inside...

I have been researching some off-the-shelf, or more appropriately, off-the-Amazon options for installing a couple of cameras to monitor the engine room and other areas while underway. I would rather not have to run another set of wires all the way to the flybridge, so I was exploring wireless...

So last week I was checking the anodes on the raw water pumps. When I removed the brass plug on the starboard engine pump the anode, or what was left of it, came untreaded and was stuck in the opening. While I was trying to get a grip on it with some needle nose pliers to remove it, it wound...

This will not end well....

For my 8V71TIs I fabricated a couple of custom angled exhaust deflectors using Schedule-10 316 stainless pipe. I don't know if it was because of my hard top or some other factor, but at cruising speed the reverberation from the exhaust was like driving your car at 70 mph with one window down...

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Not sure if this is a question that could be answered here but... I just ordered a rebuild kit for my freshwater pump (8V71TI engine). When comparing the parts in the kit with the ones extracted from the pump I found that the impeller in the new kit does not have a ceramic insert on the...

At the current prices it might be a good investment...

Uhhh....

I have come to the conclusion that there must be a crap-load of diesel boats in advanced states of disrepair around the Pensacola/ Mobile/ Fort Walton Beach area, since apparently there is no one within 100 miles of here that works on them. I guess I can understand, since Series 71 Detroit...

I am sorry...

Or Elon Musk....

Well, thought I would modernize the 12V DC lighting system in the engine room with LEDs. I used a couple of sets of the low-profile, fully encapsulated, accent type lights in bright white. I placed them at strategic locations such as facing the fuse panel, battery switches, gage panel, Racor...

George Burns' real name was Nathan Birnbaum...I cheated though.:p

I'm not sure if there was originally a check valve or something installed to prevent this, but whenever I top off my tanks, no matter how careful I try to be, I always wind up with about 2 tablespoons worth of fuel belching from my vents. Needless to say, by the third tank it is obvious to...

First off I know the old 2-strokes are loud and I have no problem with that. However, one thing I struggle with is when I'm running at about 1300 rpm or above the sound from the exhaust is similar to the sensation you get when you roll down just one window in your car X10. I was wondering if...

Can't we all just get along?

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