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The last three antifoulings in Sydney Harbour have been disastrous with the whizz bang recommended antifouls lasting only 9 months before succuming to barnacles. Everyone in Sydney is in the same boat, so to speak. The available antifoul is simply not effective. I cannot use the boat as I...

The intercoolers are back on the engine and with a few new hoses and clamps are working fine. By far the most difficult job of all was trying to mount the bronze pipe from the pump to the rear intercooler. Sitting back I noticed that there was a major misalignment and the hose and pipe would...

Five years ago we installed a 5K Victron inverter charger and 20Kwh of lithium batteries. 1200w of solar. Boat on a swing mooring. The big refrigerator has never been turned off. We have 240 and 120v circuits thanks to Victron Autotransformer. Five of the seven aircons can now be run from...

The project has been proceeding with the intercoolers cleaned and new gaskets replaced by a machine shop. Most bolts broke and were replaced. The aluminium surfaces were cleaned and etch primed. Two heliccoils were used. Two studs were ordered from USA. The forward intercooler went on...

Armed with my new cordless sawzill and 12" metal blade the coolers were wedged up. The gaskets were about the same thickness as the blade. It took about two seconds to cut through each stud. Simple, easy and no damage to the castings. Lifting off both intercoolers revealed a dirty mess...

Here we go.... Yesterday my 18 yo great nephew and I started to remove the top caps off the intercoolers. All went well until the thread on a stud on the forward intercooler was found binded into to the cap and was not budging despite much physical persuasion and verbal abuse. Today, with...

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Flooring......

After nearly 10 year of ownership the major electrical and mechanical repairs have mostly been completed. We moved on to the interior which was very tired. New carpeting, furniture, blinds, batroom upgrades..... The last interior jobs were the floors and the front bow rails. Here are some...

I am wondering if there is still a contact / email address at Hatteras who may be able to provide me with two missing wiring diagrams for our boat? Thanks.

Q1. The area above the genset room has aframosia wood paneling but a previous owner seems to have added a reddish tint/ stain to the aframosia panels . I have reduced the reddish severity by wiping down with aceton, but would ideally like to now remove most of the reddish staining. Would you...

Here are a couple of photos of the major issue. I last looked at it closely 4 weeks ago and cleaned / vacuumed. You can see from today's photos the new grey aluminium oxide powder sitting on the top of the blower. This has come off the side / ends of the rear intercooler. It is not easy to...

Both engines twin intercooler's have vergegris on the gasket ends and also sinister powdery aluminium now resting on the blower below. It seems the rear intercoolers are worse than the front. Its now time to service them. I'll do one engine this year and one next year. We are going to...

I have just cleaned my Walker Air Sep filters. Difficult to buy Walker products here. What alternate oil can I use to oil them? WD40 seems too easy but will also do the job?

There are three of these oversize relay type parts in the lower section of our AC Distribution Panel. They seem to click a bit when the genset is switching on/off or when we switch to the inverter. Given there are three AC sub panels, I guess there is one gizmo for each. I showed this...

Capt' Ralph: I took a good look at the big hose running down from the turbo. The areas where it attached to the sump was clean and dry. Good news. Sky: I took a good look at the manifold and its dry everywhere. Mad Hatter: With my new inspection light and TV monitor I worked...

Capt' Ralph.... is it this gasket? from DieselPro. I wil go look for that sump fitting next time I'm at the boat.

The starboard engine has always leaked some oil into the bilge. Over the past couple of years this seems to be increasing. Today I now have more than a gallon of oil in the bilge and I have watched the dipstick oil level go down after a recent 4 hour run.. Not good. There is obviously a...