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Do we have an BMW car owners/enthusiasts who can recommend the best on-line sites for BMWs? I need to find a particular BMW manual transmission (I'm not a BMW owner) and there are a LOT of BMW forums out there. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. (the piece I am looking for is a Getrag...

When I bought my NL generator for my 36C, I wanted the sound enclosure (and the dealer had one at a great price!) unfortunately, it just wouldn't fit in the engine room- no way. Even when the Cummins engines were installed, and Tom Slane's crew turned the generator 90 degrees, we STILL couldn't...

The calendar thread has started me thinking.... My Hatteras was built in 1970 and sold new in 1971 as a 1971 model. If anyone has a 1970 or 1971 Hatteras calendar that they would like to part with, I'm interested. Any reasonable price met. I don't know if the 36 convertible is in the calendar...

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If anyone still has a bigger display for the Northstar 6000i or 6100i, I would like to fit one on my boat. I believe they made up to 15" diagonal, but that display flush-mounts. Right now I have the 10" diagonal in a yoke mount- I would like to see if I can find the next larger size. Any help...

I have two depth finders on Blue Note- the first is a digital depth finder that just reads out in numbers. I think it's operating frequency is 235kH or something like that. It was made by Standard Horizon. The second is the fishfinder unit on my Northstar 6100i. it can be set to 50kH, for deeper...

Does anyone know if PAR/Jabsco still make the large brass-cylinder manual bilge pump that used to be fitted to Hatteras Yachts way back when? I have one, but the piston is frozen in the cylinder. PAR still make a smaller version of this, but if I am going to replace it, I would like to get the...

As part of my painting adventures on my boat, we unscrewed the bells (trumpets) of the Raritan horns, which have been on my boat since new. There is a little compressor in the bridge which powers them. They've always worked fine. When we screwed the trumpets back on today, and I hit the button...

3 Dead After Yacht Capsizes Off Long Island By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: July 5, 2012 at 8:05 AM ET OYSTER BAY, N.Y. (AP) — A yacht full of fireworks watchers capsized in Long Island Sound on Wednesday night, killing three people and sending 24 others into the water, where many were...

You all probably know that we are having one of our usual power outages in the mid-Atlantic states. This one was caused by a type of storm system I'd not heard of before, called a "derecho" (sounds like something you might order in a Tex Mex restaurant), so I used my standby genset to power the...

Three photos of the recent work: a "before" and two "afters", I think. Getting photos under the shed roof is more difficult than I had thought, but perhaps the difference is visible.

Moved Blue Note to a covered slip today, due for a wash within a day or two, and then the job begins. If she comes out half decent, I will post pictures, otherwise nothing but complaints. I know that's hard to believe from me, but get used to it.

Those of you who know me also know that I have three godchildren who I prize more than anything. They describe me as their PLO, or "parent-like object" The middle one, age 23, teaches mathematics in FL and is an avid sailor and racer (and damn good at it, too- she is crewing in the...

Today after I cleaned up Blue Note (who is quite unlikely at this point to get any paint at all this season, I appear to be totally screwed on this now) I decided to go out for a boat ride. this was short- down to Thomas Point Light and back. Boat ran fine etc. But when I got back I noticed that...

Blue Note is going to need a topside paint job that the boatyard was unable to get to. I plan to do this and brush it. I don't think we have had a thread on brushing Awlgrip (over previously applied Awlgrip about twelve years old btw) so if anyone has any useful info to pass along, please do so...

...this may have appeared recently- if so, forgive me. This morning I needed three additional gallons of pink AF to complete winterizing Blue Note. I had bought two cases of it for 3.97 a gallon at TruValue, but WM was on the way to the marina (their ship's store is small and doesn't have it)...

Winterizing Blue Note today, so I spent a lot of time in the engine room etc. And noticed all over again how well the bronze pieces that were sprayed with Corrosion-X when installed have held up. Stuff is amazing. Some of them are four years old, with salt water running through them, and look...

I've started this thread so that we can have one place on the Forum where we pool our experiences and information gained from this storm and getting our boats and ourselves through it. Now this assumes a range of outcomes, which is the last thing I want; what I want is for everyone AND their...

Would someone explain to me why marine engines are not supposed to use synthetic oil? Cummins says not to use it, Tony Athens says not to use it, etc. I can't figure this out when so many new high-performance engines in cars and trucks have synthetic oil as factory fills. And I think some of...

I decided to get tickets to see Steely Dan, who are on tour beginning in July. I think most Dan fans are in the same age bracket as a lot of Hatteras Yacht owners. They are in Portsmouth, VA, on August 1, and up here at the Post Pavilion on August 2nd. If you've never seen them, it's worth...