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Unfortunately it is time that I sell are boat. Timeless has been a good boat for us for the last 17 years and we have had some wonderful times on her. She is the double cabin variety of the boat with the huge master cabin aft complete with dressing table and double hanging locker. She also has...

Well.... It is that time of the year again and I have to winterize the water and holding tanks. They are both as empty as I can get them, but you know how it is. You never get it all. Can you use an antifreeze with ethyl alcohol in these tanks, or will it compromise the tanks.? Thanks

I am going to clean the strainers on the M20s in the boat as part of getting it ready to head south this fall. Since I just got my bilges nice and clean this spring, how much oil can I expect to come out of the cap when I loosen it? I would like to have enough diapers under there to keep the...

This is the first year that our boat will be pulled and stored on land for the winter. In the past we have always stayed in the water and used bubblers to keep the ice away from the boat. My question is what is the best way to winterize the seacocks for temps that can dip down and stay below...

I have a problem with the circuitry for my port engine (DD 8V71N). The alternator is not outputting any charge to the battery bank. I have had the alternator and the regulator tested at our local automotive electrical shop and they are both OK. So my guess is that there is a wire someplace...

Got a call yesterday morning about 8:00 saying that the dock next to ours had broken away in the wind (50mph) and was laying against our dock. When I got to the marina here is what I saw. The first is a photo from the shore. Our dock is the uncovered dock, and we are clear at the far end...

OK, I have a friend that is looking at a 44 Striker. The thing he likes about the boat is that it is aluminum vs fiberglass. Aside from the fact that it is not a Hatt, what are the good, bad, and ugly things about these boats. BTW, I have looked at many of the previous posts related to these...

I ran over to the fuel doc at our marina yesterday to fill the tanks on our boat. They wouldn't sell me any fuel since it had been stored over the winter. The word they are passing around is that ULSD will "separate" over the winter if it is stored below 38 degrees. They say they have to get...

Yesterday I de-winterized the boat. We keep our boat stored in the water, with bubblers to take care of the typical hard water we have here in the midwest. Anyway, after making all of my checks that I have developed for getting the engines and air conditioning back in service, I fired up the...

Our boat still has the electric trim tab actuators, and they do still work. However the port actuator is sounding like it will not last too many more cycles before it quits. I have talked to a couple of the local yokel boat mechanics around here and they are telling me that I have to remove...

Well, yesterday was the day I finally bit the bullet and winterized my mains, genny and air conditioning. I don't winterize the water as we live onboard year around. Everything went as planned until I got to the port main. Since we live in a part of the country that can and does (still) see...

Hey Doug, Is it possible to modify the naughty word filter so that it does not change words like fibergl***, etc? It is kinda distracting. Thanks, Dwayne

The old Frigidaire died and so we have to get a replacement. Big question is; How do you get the slider window frames out of the boat. The new refer is 23 inches deep with the doors off, and that is just about precisely the amount of space there is between the top of the bottom part of the...

As I mentioned in my other post on my aft deck problems, I have an outlet that is not working properly and when I checked, it is not wired properly. It only has a hot and a neutral, no ground. Not only that, but the stranded copper wire seems to be about 14 guage. Since I boat in fresh water...

when I think that I made a mistake in buying my boat! Don't get me wrong, I love the boat. But, there are things that were missed in the survey that are now starting to bite me in the aft. When I bought the boat, the aft deck, above the aft cabin and at the lower helm was covered with carpet...

This post is mostly for Starman. The belly tanks on the yachtfish from fore to aft are the water tank, the holding tank, and the center fuel tank. I was told by Jennifer Carmen at Hatteras that there were two sizes of holding tank in the 48's. One was 60 gal and the other 84. According to...

I have a couple soft spots in my cockpit deck near the fuel tank sight glasses that need to be taken care of. I assume that the best choice would be to use balsacore for replacing the rotted wood except for around the site glasses which would be FRP. I have also seen where some of you have...

This is a shameless plug for Flitz metal and fiberglass polish. As you may have read, the boat was repainted below the waterline last year. As part of the process of getting her ready for repaint we made the decision to remove the paint from the rubrails that a prior owner had applied. We...

Yesterday we had one of our gully washer rains here in the midwest and lo and behold water started dripping on the couch in the saloon. The source of the water is the starboard windshield washer. After pulling the access panel and feeling around, it appears that the water is leaking around the...

A couple times this year, when I started the starbd engine (8v71n) in our boat, it would build oil pressure to about 20lbs and then all of a sudden drop to zero and then start the climb back up again. My guages are not electric, but are plumbed from the engine via copper tubing. When it...