The Hatt should be painted and if properly cared for it should have many years left. The Viking of gel coat must be needing a paint job. 465 hp...
What size boat are we talking about?
At hull speed, about 8- 8.5 kts on a 40/45 footer you re going to burn 8-8.5 gph. My 53 Hatteras burns about 9 gph at 9kts hull speed (longer...
Magnums are pretty good and last time I checked made in the USA no by the chicoms like xantrex while having a good inverter is helpful, they...
You re talking carrying capacity on a recreational vessel which is pretty much calculated based on beam, length and freeboard. I was referring...
Violating a captain of the port order is never a good idea… that’s where the big fines and jail time come in that said I alway laugh when I read...
They may look like they’re in series but I m sure that if you pull the fixtures you ll find connections in the ceiling powering each light How...
Don’t forget the fire suppressing system too. On ours, the signal is sent from the fire system relay box to the MTU control boxes at the helm....
I would get a second opinion from the seal manufacturer about the hose type. how much is it leaking?
Any vibration, wobble in the shaft etc ? At what speed did you hit ? I don’t see how the seal could start leaking unless something got bent.
I ve been running a 110 MY with M91s. 4000 hours and both rebuilt in the last 2 years. Coolant is much cooler than cats, DDs or Cummins at...
not in the Bahamas…. Once the staff ar Bimini Bay made me wait 10 or 15 minutes in the basin, marina was 80% empty, and then sent me into a slip...
That’s a Bahamas thing. Somehow th et can never figure out who s going where until the last minute. And then they usually send you into a slip...
I looked at Chub’s website a week ago or so in case we had to head to the exumas this weekend, they had plenty of slip even the big ones.
Fuel in Chub is $1 a gallon more than Nassau which is only 40nm away…. No point in stopping there
Last trip to the exumas i cleared at Morgan’s Bluff. Got there in the evening, dropped the hook, dinghied in the morning, harbor master called...
Have they gone insane??? This is the page that pops up after you click on the main Chub Page. https://islandidols.io/about/ a special app,...
We have UPS pretty much everywhere on the boat for every TV system to avoid the 15 minutes directTV receiver reboots as well as for some...
The 5’ draft is great for the Bahamas. We used to anchor in spots where bigger boats don’t go so we d often have Bahamian asking if we were...
If you re going to go as far as the Carib you need storage, refrigeration and back ups incl twin generators. Going to be hard to get that in a...
