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During my ownership, no zincs have gone missing, this one has been in there since before I bought the boat. I am currently rehabbing my raw water lines, and I am replacing the elbows where the water exits into the exhaust. First time I had had that fitting off, it is a 90 degree fitting... And...

We have a great boat, a 1972 43DC. We bought it 6 years ago last week. These are the first of thousands of such mysteries you will encounter. Here is one I found yesterday, a zinc that has been jammed into the exhaust elbow for years and years (before we owned the boat, for sure.)

Thanks for posting this, I am in the middle of rebuilding my Racors and I am questioning whether there is more than one version of the 1000MA over time. I have seen where the 1000MA should be a blue label, but mine are both 1000MAs, one with a blue sticker and one with a red sticker. I also...

On my 43 the holding tank is the forward keel tank, and it is fairly far from the aft stateroom and I called Raritan tech support and talked to them for a few minutes about it. Very accessible, I think I emailed them the question and he called me in the morning. I believe they actually recommend...

If you get up to MD, seems like Fairview Marina in Baltimore area does a pretty good job painting boats.

Yea mine was originally that the raw water output splits out of the pump into two 1" hoses, one going to the fuel cooler and then to the heat exchanger, and then the other one straight to the heat exchanger. So the heat exchanger raw water input fitting is two 1" connections. Then the output is...

Is that the one I sent you? I should have tagged it before releasing it back to the wild so we can track its progress!

What do you mean? I had two coolers on the boat, the original style where they take a 1" split at the raw water pump and go in and out of a smaller cooler on the way in to the heat exchanger. This made complicated plumbing and extra long fuel hoses, compared to the other engine, which had been...

https://lencoheatexchangers.com/

I don’t believe that to be the same outfit, btw. https://lencocoolers.com/mobile/index.html?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lencocoolers.com%2F

Super easy to deal with, and lots of info on their website. They are apparently the OEM for J&T, Jesse said they have been building them for 50 years. I decided to replace both fuel coolers on my JT6-71Ns and as with so many things, neither of the coolers currently installed was optimal. Lenco...

I might be interested, I am not super familiar with them though, our boat didn't have one, but I like the look of them? lol PM if you would like. Thanks!

Galley Maid website no longer exists, is this indicative of the existence of Galley Maid itself?

On my 43, there are some unused brackets welded to the engine stringers, near where the fuel pump is. It seems like it was made to mount the fuel filters, as they will mount there, the holes are exactly right, etc. Anyway, I am replacing the hoses and cleaning stuff up as I do over the winter...

I was critical of Defender when they changed their website and bumped up the prices and everything suddenly a couple of years ago. However, even the the site is different and harder to navigate, it works well enough and is still better than many. The prices thing got back to normal, and they...

My brother is interested in it: https://www.motorandkeel.com/detail/used-hatteras-branford-ct-06405-stk-u133953

I believe the big Galley Maid windlass is 1200lbs pull and the small one is 600lbs... I was going to link you to their manual on their website but their website doesn't seem to exist anymore. Found this from when I scanned my manual.

I have new alternators, they are not painted. The old ones were. I have been repainting the engine and engine parts as necessary with rustoleum, seems to work well enough. Would you paint a new alternator, or leave it as is?

Here is an update on this. Machine shop guy said that the coupling was out by .057 and probably had never been faced. Shaft was out .016. He rebalanced my prop and spin the whole thing up and got it all lined up as a unit at his shop. Should be good to go. The prop needing to be done again was...

After I pulled off my prop coupler, I was able to remove the packing nut entirely, and have a look inside. I used the GFO stuff, and had it adjusted pretty well, would not have wanted to make it any tighter. In any case, I feel like I would want to have it hanging onto more than three...