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We're leaving Chicago on a cruise to miss the winter weather. When we did the Great Loop cruise, the Tennessee river was really beautiful in the Fall colors. You have to leave the Tennessee when it turns East and go down the Ten-Tom to Mobile, AL so you miss the cool part of the Tennessee...

I am installing a new (Outback) inverter in the genny area of my 53MY. My question is where do I find a good ground source in the genny room under the galley? The AC ground bus up next to the helm is almost impossible to get a wire to from the genny room and it seems like the genny should have...

Hey Yachtsman Willie - Do you want another Chrisie Roamer? Really sad story about a disabled vet having to sell his boat in the Carribean... started out at $200K, then $100K, then $85K... all with no bids on eBay. Now down to $60K with new Imron and bottom epoxy after stripped to bare metal...

We're going to cruise the Tennessee River this Fall from the Ten-Tom to Chattanooga. Have any of you done this? Any great places to see or bad ones to miss? Any great anchorages or islands to see? We'll get a cruising book and Quimbys, but I thought maybe somebody (besides Freebird) had been...

Re: galley maid pump problems The copper tube is a primer for the discharge side. Galleymaid discontinued use of that tube many years ago due to crossover flow filling up people's holding tanks when the boat is sitting. The priming function was only a precaution for if the head was installed...

I have a 53MY with the above mentioned. One of my overheat sensors has started to "chirp" at 180 degrees, which is every time I open them up. I called Sam's and they're no longer available, but they were dry sensors just bolted to the engine block somewhere. Steve has a wet sensor I can put...

Has anybody ever heard of the below? Doug If you use a stern anchor and restrict the boats orientation to the natural wave direction created by wind or current, be aware that any wave 2 - 3' high can pump water backwards up you exhaust system into your exhaust manifold and from there into a...

Is it just me, or is everyone having the same problems using posting features? I can't use "add link", bold, smiles, etc. A PM to the Admin. brought no response. Doug

I change the impellers in my engines and genny every year, but I have never touched the CruiseAir raw water pumps in 5 years and they still pump lots of water. Is there an impeller that needs changing? Have I just been lucky? Thanks, Doug

This'll be a long note... My house bank wouldn't hold a full charge anymore and my charger was cycling on every 15 minutes for 15 seconds, even with no 32V power in use. I got out my trusty hrdrometer and found that all the cells (8 volt Rolls HHG25PM's) measured 1150 to 1175. I measured the...

I have a 1978 53MY with the original Hatt black dual station gages. One of my 4 engine temp gauges is bad and they are no longer available anywhere. I really don't want to change out 4 aauges and 2 senders just to fix this one gage. I've posted this before, but I thought I'd put it in again...

I hate to drill a new hole in the hull, but I'm adding a 1.5 inch thru-hull for an overboard pumpout so we can go to the Bahamas, where they don't have pumpout stations. I got the SeaLand diaphram type discharge pump, like Yachtsman Bill, except in 24V. My question is: the OD of the new...

Re: Gally Maid head problem If you're just opening the discharge side, you don't even have to close the valve. Pour some OdorLos in the head, flush it twice and take the pump apart. Just loosen the discharge hose and let anything in the hose run into a bucket. Then remove the 6 small bolts...

This is the best picture of this ever! Doug

I count on and enjoy getting help from fellow Hatteras owners here on the forum, but I continue to wonder about the forum's policy re: "no bad comments for bad products". I thought maybe it was because SAM's MArine was worried about liability for hosting the forum, but in the current edition of...

My 10 year old car had automotive clear coat and it still looked perfect after 10 years. My boat nameplates were heavy carved plastic plates which I had refinished at an auto repair shop with black paint and a clear coat over the top. They're still perfect after 4 years on the boat. I have...

Interesting question.... Do you close your seacocks when you're not onboard for a while? I always shut off the dock water whenever we leave the boat at all, but I leave all of the seacocks open. I really only close them if I'm going to leave the boat for months or to operate them annually to...

I have a 53MY, used in both fresh water and salt water and 5 year old bottom paint. We just put 6,000 miles on her doing the Great Loop, so it's past time to do a bottom paint job. I believe that the current bottom paint is the ablative type because when you scratch it with a fingernail you...

An island anchorage in the Canada's North Channel where you have the whole island all to yourself, a bay with a beach and a Hatteras. This was yesterday. Yes, I loved the Keys and the Outer Banks too, but you share it with so many other people there. Doug Shuman

Price of your new, really fancy, motoryacht: $2.5 million Price of strawberries and champagne while waiting on the dock to sign acceptance agreement: $250 Price of huge crane and faulty turnbuckle: $2500 per hour. Yeah, keep reading - you know what's going to happen.....