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After a month of cruising with my family of five, the consensus is we should reconfigure the flybridge for our group Christmas present. I want to take out the two benches and put in 3 captains chairs across with a double helm chair behind the front 3. Anybody have a guess at how many $$$ I...

I am a long way from home with a dead starboard battery that serves the house side. It powers the fresh water pump and heads so I can't use them even in port, and much worse, at anchor or underway. It also powers the electronics but they seem to work once the alternator picks up voltage Does...

I left my Dutton's Seamanship book in my stateroom on the USS Lexington when they gonged me ashore to the civillian world twenty years ago. Now I am cruising full time and trying to pull things from memory. Here are some basic questions: 1. What is the recommended scope for a 43 foot boat...

I am at anchor off of Key West Bight with two of my sons who would like to help but do not have the collective analytical skills of this forum. We went snorkeling at Sand Key and got caught in a storm with reportedly 40 plus knot gusts. It scared the hell out of me but we stayed on our moor...

I spent the last ten days on my 43 DCMY at anchor off of Cabbage Key chasing tarpon in Boca Grande pass from a flats boat. My starboard (house) battery bank ran down to 0 one night. Apparently I had turned off the battery charger so the generator could not start it. Fortunately, the port...

What appears to be the original depth finder on my 1976 43 DC died last week. It has a through hull transducer and worked great. I would love to find a replacement that uses the same transducer but the unit doesn't have any markings to even tell me who made it. Its white and rectangular abut...

When I shift from the flybridge of my 1976 DC the lower helm is sometimes unresponsive until I spin it all the way to the left or the right at which time it "carches" and then works fine even in rough seas for a prolonged time. It did not do this until recently. It will also behave this way at...