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These are all for 24volt (anything that I tried that was a range-voltage, ie 12-36V, usually failed spectacularly). The last 2 are for indicator lights on power panels, etc. Amazon.com: CEC Industries B2A Ne 51H Neon Glow Lamp : Tools & Home Improvement 4 x E26/E27 24V DC LED Light Bulbs -...

I'm having flashbacks to my Coast Guard days on a 180' buoy tender working aids to navigation and retrieving/replacing moorings for the buoys. We essentially had to do the "davit" retrieval, but of course we had a procedure for it and a ship designed for it. These were the "Cactus" class buoy...

I actually saw this same one on a private website run by a bunch of us old Coasties... We had a host of comments, none of which are sharable on here. :D

I was looking for something else (surprise) when I got distracted and found this in the rabbit hole. https://youtu.be/SahVAAQHAzQ?si=zdpchA8ymCp27Mq2 Has anyone else seen one of these? Or tried/used one? The concept looks sound, but I am a little skeptical that it's actually as easy as this. I...

With the loss of Pau Hana in Hurricane Ian, I had a list of unfinished/never started projects that I came across this morning. One of them was to "restore" the shore water connection on the side of the deckhouse, instead of the improv connection thru the starboard engine room vent. While we are...

Thanks. The 7 months of fighting with the insurance company didn't help, but we learned a lot in our 2 years, 1 month of full-time liveaboard boat ownership. Along the way I removed the old Crusairs, installed 3 new standalone single-piece units, plumbed/wired them, found and solved a lot of...

Good afternoon. I was wondering if anyone has used step-up transformers to change voltage for specific uses. In this case, it's to provide higher amps/voltage to maintain charge levels for iPads used for navigation. My boat was a 24-volt boat and I had to use a step-down transformer to replace a...

Whatever else you want to say about it, the Admiral and I are sitting here in our dirt house behind the Edison-Ford estate in Ft Myers, discussing the fact that this year's "I-storm" is about a month early but still painful after Ian destroyed our 54' EDMY. That being said, we have a 7500W...

I'm looking to see if I still have the information on those relay switches. Mine were mounted in white control boxes marked CrusAir on the forward bulkhead of the generator room. The pump relays looked like a circuit board, inside the boxes pictured below. I have a receipt from Amazon where I...

There are as many responses to this as there are boats out there, I think. We have a local father-son vendor here in Fort Myers, and the father has been working on Hats since 1971, and the son is an old Coastie engineer now working with his father. We met them 2 days after moving Pau Hana to...

Final update on Pau Hana. She couldn't be moved by truck so she was cut up on-site in St James City. While I was unable to look for any more belongings, one of the salvage crew found my DeWalt mechanics tool set still in the case and intact - Just needs soaked in diesel fuel and cleaned.

Yesterday was probably the worst and best day of our too-short ownership of Pau Hana, our 1986 54' MY. I previously posted in this thread about losing her to Hurricane Ian, and our insurance company was a nightmare. It took reaching out to Governor DeSantis' and the state CFO office to get our...

While tracking down and resolving water incursions into my generator room aboard Pau Hana, I identified and removed AC condensation drains... Replaced the galley sink drain hose... Replaced the bilge pump hose, pump, check-valve, float switch and installed anti-siphon fitting. The crown jewel of...

The tradition in the Coast Guard was that as the "Senior Service", we were the ideal the Navy needed to try to live up to... In that spirit, when the Navy was conducting sea trials on the USS Zumwalt, the $4 billion (yes with a B) stealth destroyer, and she broke down at sea, the ship that I...

I actually have to do this on occasion due to sediment in the river here in Fort Myers. What I did was make a flushing cap using one of the faceplates for my March AC water pumps, and connect it to the generator room freshwater spigot. I will run freshwater thru the AC's for anywhere from 15...

I have a unique issue (at least, I can't find anyone else posting anything similar). My holding tank is a midships keel tank, molded of course. I have been chasing mystery water in the generator room bilge and tonight was able to see that it appears to be coming thru divider bulkhead between...

Looking for some advice/recommendations. I have a persistent leak in the V-berth hatch on the bow. I tried covering the vent alone and that did not make any difference. I covered the entire hatch and leak did not recur. We're expecting rain the next couple of days so plastic is staying in place...

Well after a recent incident on a neighboring boat in the marina, I pondered this issue for about a week before moving forward with installing an inexpensive webcam setup on Pau Hana. Long term plan is a BRNKL or similar system, but for the near future/short-term, this was a cost-effective...

Pascal and I have the same pumps. In fact I just posted about this in another thread but here's my flushing tool for my units - I have 3 self-contained units now that I have had to replace all the old CrusAir units. I can't get to the discharge side easily to make a closed loop so I have to...

Has anyone done an in-place flush of the saltwater/raw water side of the cooling system and if so can you share how you did it? I am working thru the survey issues in my engine rooms, and one of the top items was flushing both heat exchangers out. With the low hours on my engines, the surveyor...