stupid question time

[dottieshusband]

I see the fitting to connect to shore water, How do I get the cap with the button off?

 

[SKYCHENEY]

That's a quick connect fitting. You need the female end to snap on there. Sams has them.

 

[SKYCHENEY]

It looks like this:

Here is the link to Sam's inventory page:

http://parts.samsmarine.com/PartSearch/LinkPart.cfm?ItemNmbr=93627A

 

[dottieshusband]

Thanks, Is Sans open Saturday in FLL

 

[Bill Root]

Thanks, Is Sans open Saturday in FLL

I don't think Sam's is open on saturdays, but you can try them. Have you looked all over your boat for that quick-connect fitting, now that you know what it looks like? Hard to see why anyone would take it off the boat. I found mine under some rags in the bottom of one of the deck boxes. If you do find it, I suggest lubricating the collar and ball bearings before trying to put it on... makes it much easier to push the collar securely over the male fitting on the boat.

 

[GJH]

Here's a piece of advice. You seem to have bought this boat literally sight unseen, no manuals or walk through by the prior owner, surveyor or broker. Go to Sam's on Monday and see if you can hire Ed to come over to your boat and give you an orientation and size up what you have there, or have him recommend someone (such as a professional captain with lots of Hatteras experience) who can that is familiar with these particular boats. Someone from Cable Marine is another thought. Also, get a rec for a diesel guy who knows these boats and has the communication skills and patience to walk you through the propulsion systems.

Another alternative would be to fly someone like Bruce Morrison down from North Carolina, who can walk you through everything and also show you how to run the boat. From the questions you have been asking, I am a little concerned for your future, safety, sanity and financial risk. These are great boats and you should have many happy times ahead, but you've got to be better prepared.

 

[Bill Root]

Here's a piece of advice. You seem to have bought this boat literally sight unseen, no manuals or walk through by the prior owner, surveyor or broker. Go to Sam's on Monday and see if you can hire Ed to come over to your boat and give you an orientation and size up what you have there, or have him recommend someone (such as a professional captain with lots of Hatteras experience) who can that is familiar with these particular boats. Someone from Cable Marine is another thought. Also, get a rec for a diesel guy who knows these boats and has the communication skills and patience to walk you through the propulsion systems.

Another alternative would be to fly someone like Bruce Morrison down from North Carolina, who can walk you through everything and also show you how to run the boat. From the questions you have been asking, I am a little concerned for your future, safety, sanity and financial risk. These are great boats and you should have many happy times ahead, but you've got to be better prepared.

Very good advice from George. Bruce Morrison is an excellent choice. However, if you want to use local people, there are three that I used when I bought BUFALO GAL in Ft. Lauderdale a couple of years ago.

JR Graham (954-868-2546) is very familiar with all the major systems on older Hatteras boats. He has several of them that he maintains for absentee owners, in addition to his marine electronics and maintenance business. Nice guy and very fair in how he charges. Fran Walker at Fran Walker Diesel (954-931-2846) is an excellent Detroit Diesel guy. For any cabinetry work I would highly recommend John Jorgensen. He put an entire new galley in BUFFALO GAL. Excellent quality work. For your systems monitor, JR Graham can generally help, but if it requires work that's over his head, Les Henderson (954-663-5732) is your man. He installed many of these systems on the early Hats and is the resident expert in Florida. Just be prepared to pay Les in cash.

If you call any of these foklks, please tell them that I recommended them. At the time I used them, the boat was called Vegas Gal II and was tied behind a house in Las Olas.

Good luck.

 

[Bill Root]

I see the fitting to connect to shore water, How do I get the cap with the button off?

BTW, would help to know what boat/power you have.

 

[saltshaker]

BTW, would help to know what boat/power you have.

Was this boat surveyed before you bought it? If not and it's beyond your abilities, get someone to check the boat out. Same with the engines. Failure of a simple maintenance item like a hose or a clamp, can cost you an engine. Majors on those engines can easily run 40K-50K each. X3 on getting someone to go over the boat with you. You really need to be familiar and prove all systems before you get into trouble. Things like operating the windlass in your slip, checking the water system for leaks and that the pumps are operating properly, getting familiar with the operation of the electrical systems, running the generators and putting a load on them, trying out the davit before you need to launch the tender, testing and using the electronics etc.

 

[Pascal]

As others mentionned this is a quick connect fitting

That said, be very careful when using dock water as many boats have sunk when unfitting fails and the resulting leak fills the boat. Your bilge pumps should keep it afloat, assuming you regularly test the pump and float switches...

Keep it safe, use the tank! Or if you hook up, turn off the water when leaving the boat

 

[dottieshusband]

Thanks for the advice. I have hired local Captain in Miami, but we won't meet until Monday, and we are staying on the boat for the weekend. The boat had a complete haulout survey 2 years ago, and all was addressed, and the 12V71ti's run like a top with good compressions, all equal, no oil leaks, and NO RUST! I did get a walk through and sea trial. We had the impellers, oil, filters, fuel filters, tranny oil, screens, filters, tanks cleaned, and fuel polished. Moving from a modern 44 express, to a 63 MY will be a transition, but well get through it! If the engines OH/s are only 40K, that will be less than the TIO550's in my plane! Thanks...

 

[jim rosenthal]

I concur with the above posts, emphatically. You need a few days with a hired captain to go through things with you. And you should have a notebook AND voice recorder with you. There's a lot to learn on these old boats, much of it can be critical, not only for the vessel's health but for yours as well.

Don't use dockside water. Get the on-board water system commissioned and working well, and fill the tank when you need water. Dockside hookups have sunk a lot of boats, some of them probably Hatteras yachts. If you are determined to use it, shut it off EVERY time you leave the boat- an in-line SS valve that shuts through 90 degrees is the best thing to use. But really you are better off filling the boat's tank every few days if you need to, and that way you'll flush out all the crud in the ships water system.

 

[GJH]

Thanks for the advice. I have hired local Captain in Miami, but we won't meet until Monday, and we are staying on the boat for the weekend. The boat had a complete haulout survey 2 years ago, and all was addressed, and the 12V71ti's run like a top with good compressions, all equal, no oil leaks, and NO RUST! I did get a walk through and sea trial. We had the impellers, oil, filters, fuel filters, tranny oil, screens, filters, tanks cleaned, and fuel polished. Moving from a modern 44 express, to a 63 MY will be a transition, but well get through it! If the engines OH/s are only 40K, that will be less than the TIO550's in my plane! Thanks...

Did you buy the boat two years ago? What is the story of the boat as you know it since then? Was "all was addressed" done under your ownership? Is your summation of the engines from a survey you just had done, or from two years ago? Is the captain you hired experienced with these specific boats? The answers might give us a better idea where things are. We're not trying to be hard on you, we want you to be a happy member of the club. A little tough love if you will.

 

[saltshaker]

Thanks for the advice. I have hired local Captain in Miami, but we won't meet until Monday, and we are staying on the boat for the weekend. The boat had a complete haulout survey 2 years ago, and all was addressed, and the 12V71ti's run like a top with good compressions, all equal, no oil leaks, and NO RUST! I did get a walk through and sea trial. We had the impellers, oil, filters, fuel filters, tranny oil, screens, filters, tanks cleaned, and fuel polished. Moving from a modern 44 express, to a 63 MY will be a transition, but well get through it! If the engines OH/s are only 40K, that will be less than the TIO550's in my plane! Thanks...

I looked at a boat that had an extensive refit in '09. New bottom, interior, majors on the engines etc. She was gorgeous. Owner died and the boat sat unattended. I looked at her a year later and she was beat. Looked at another one that had fresh rebuilds and then was repo'd, that one was done too. Systems weren't properly winterized and zero maintenance. A lot can happen in a year or two. It's not hard to turn a $500K boat into scrap. I'd get the boat checked out now. It will teach you a lot aboat the boat and may save you from making some very expensive mistakes. That $40K for a rebuild is each. and that's if there aren't any major issues. If they needed to come out of the boat, had a bad crank, block etc. Those numbers can double or triple.

 

[Bugsy]

I'm going to try and provide a little of the "other side of the story".

The comments and recommendations above are all logical but of course, each of us got here traveling a different route---our own route. Many owners acquire their experience doing the wrong thing and survive to change their usual protocol.

I went from a 330 SeaRay to a 1984 48 MY having first offered on a 58 wide body. I had a hull survey (useless) and engine survey and took delivery in Naples, Fl.
Once the boat was loaded with necessities, I was on my way to Canada with two buddies on board to Atlantic City and from there to Lake Huron with spouses also on board.

I knew nothing and my ignorance was shared by my "crew". We had no idea of what a "quick connect" was so we couldn't figure out how to supply shore water.
The shower heads all blew off; the gennie quit; we were pumping out the holding tank not knowing we were discharging overboard; one fellow was over-filling the oil because unbeknown to us, he was checking levels when the engines were running; we had a "heck" of a time in the Welland Canal; and I could ramble on but you get the picture. I can't even recount the number of times I was overcome by a sense of; "What have I done?"

Two years later with little more boating experience on the Hatteras and with even more complicated systems installed that could lead to problems, my wife and I were southbound down the Mississippi and Tenn-Tom; around Florida and headed to Grenada, one of the VERY few similar size motor yachts venturing past "Chicken Harbour".

And wonder of wonders---We got there and I ended up writing a couple of stories for Southern Boating!!

The point is---you learn. You ask; you filter the responses; you watch; you experiment; you go your own way by using what you knew to get here in the first place; you hopefully survive. If we all did the "right" thing I wonder how much would ever get done.

To the OP----enjoy the ride.

 

[saltshaker]

I'm going to try and provide a little of the "other side of the story".

The comments and recommendations above are all logical but of course, each of us got here traveling a different route---our own route. Many owners acquire their experience doing the wrong thing and survive to change their usual protocol.

I went from a 330 SeaRay to a 1984 48 MY having first offered on a 58 wide body. I had a hull survey (useless) and engine survey and took delivery in Naples, Fl.
Once the boat was loaded with necessities, I was on my way to Canada with two buddies on board to Atlantic City and from there to Lake Huron with spouses also on board.

I knew nothing and my ignorance was shared by my "crew". We had no idea of what a "quick connect" was so we couldn't figure out how to supply shore water.
The shower heads all blew off; the gennie quit; we were pumping out the holding tank not knowing we were discharging overboard; one fellow was over-filling the oil because unbeknown to us, he was checking levels when the engines were running; we had a "heck" of a time in the Welland Canal; and I could ramble on but you get the picture. I can't even recount the number of times I was overcome by a sense of; "What have I done?"

Two years later with little more boating experience on the Hatteras and with even more complicated systems installed that could lead to problems, my wife and I were southbound down the Mississippi and Tenn-Tom; around Florida and headed to Grenada, one of the VERY few similar size motor yachts venturing past "Chicken Harbour".

And wonder of wonders---We got there and I ended up writing a couple of stories for Southern Boating!!

The point is---you learn. You ask; you filter the responses; you watch; you experiment; you go your own way by using what you knew to get here in the first place; you hopefully survive. If we all did the "right" thing I wonder how much would ever get done.

To the OP----enjoy the ride.

Sometimes ignorance is bliss and others it can get you in big trouble. Learning as you go is a good thing, all of us have done it and are still doing it. But preparedness is critical when running a big boat. There are tons of things the OPer will learn as he uses his new boat. What we're trying to do is help him avoid dangerous and costly mistakes. It sounds like this boat has a bit of an unknown past and may have been sitting a while. It would be a shame to learn a lesson by blowing an engine, damaging the boat or worse injuring it's passengers.

 

[magnawake]

Yes, This all sounds pretty scarey to me as well. After I purchased my 43 a little over a year ago I thought the same thing....What have I done !!!. The GOOD news... This Web Site...If you look back at my post they are almost the same. I was lurking before I bought it and did gave Pascal a call before I purchased. The HOF was the big reason I went with a Hatt. I knew I could get the help I needed. If Dotties Husband owns a plane, he'll learn fast. There is a learning curve as we all know. Pilots arent used to learning as they go. Maybe he is walking on the wild side a little (alot). ha-ha. I usually like to over plan everything and I still came up short. With the HOF website knowledge he'll be fine. Hat's off (no pun intended) for the good advise.

 

[sportfish 45]

I'm going to try and provide a little of the "other side of the story".

The comments and recommendations above are all logical but of course, each of us got here traveling a different route---our own route. Many owners acquire their experience doing the wrong thing and survive to change their usual protocol.

I went from a 330 SeaRay to a 1984 48 MY having first offered on a 58 wide body. I had a hull survey (useless) and engine survey and took delivery in Naples, Fl.
Once the boat was loaded with necessities, I was on my way to Canada with two buddies on board to Atlantic City and from there to Lake Huron with spouses also on board.

I knew nothing and my ignorance was shared by my "crew". We had no idea of what a "quick connect" was so we couldn't figure out how to supply shore water.
The shower heads all blew off; the gennie quit; we were pumping out the holding tank not knowing we were discharging overboard; one fellow was over-filling the oil because unbeknown to us, he was checking levels when the engines were running; we had a "heck" of a time in the Welland Canal; and I could ramble on but you get the picture. I can't even recount the number of times I was overcome by a sense of; "What have I done?"

Two years later with little more boating experience on the Hatteras and with even more complicated systems installed that could lead to problems, my wife and I were southbound down the Mississippi and Tenn-Tom; around Florida and headed to Grenada, one of the VERY few similar size motor yachts venturing past "Chicken Harbour".

And wonder of wonders---We got there and I ended up writing a couple of stories for Southern Boating!!

The point is---you learn. You ask; you filter the responses; you watch; you experiment; you go your own way by using what you knew to get here in the first place; you hopefully survive. If we all did the "right" thing I wonder how much would ever get done.

To the OP----enjoy the ride.

Well Said

Your single post is more helpfull than all the others combined