If only one engine has a PTO and you lose it, you then only have the other engine and no thrusters. So they generally put PTO's to both and to...
WHat load are you running at 2000 rpms? If the engines achieve over rated WOT rpm than 2000 rpms should be ok......
I ran a 43' Tiara LS with 3-425hp Yamaha's. 13' beam, cabin in the center with 2 queen or almost queen beds and a head, with 8 people had it...
Yamaha and Mercury have made a lot of engines for each other and do and they're branded by each other. For example a new 40HP Mercury is a 40HP...
Because they load something else onto the boat while it's getting painted. Coming back from Colombia, you will surely get boarded and searched...
Also customs in one port in Canada, may very well interpret and enforce the law differently than customs in a different port in Canada.
The computer should be able to tell how they were loaded throughout their life. I'm not very knowledgable on the 4000 series but I think at...
I agree. A few builders publish it but most do not. I think because most yachts are not sold with pre-installed electronics from the...
Could also be weak valve springs and the valves are floating.
Riva's biggest problem and especially with flybridge boats in the United States and Central America market is the draft. It's always 1' deeper...
That's a very long way to go to save a few bucks on a paint job, when Panama isn't that high priced to begin with.
I have switched to rejex for waxing gelcoat over Collinite fleet wax about 8-10 years ago. But, I never considered using it on enclosures and...
That's precisely what foreign flagged vessels do in South Florida every year.....go to the Bahamas for a week or two, come back and renew their 1...
Pre-ignition/detonation will cause burned exhaust valve seats as well. So if the fuel is too high a cetane number and the engines are...
Given what you said, why on earth do you refuse to run the generator longer than breakfast? You're burning the fuel either way, engines burning...
Yes a properly sized seakeeper installed in the correct location would make a very noticeable difference at all speeds. Whether or not the...
I don't know the answers to your questions, that's the job of a lawyer. What I do know is you could run the boat to the US, and then back into...
On a center console is they work well if you can handle the added weight and power draw, via either a generator or if going strictly DC possibly...
There was a company in Fort Lauderdale that advertised no maintenance finish on outriggers, towers, and bow rails etc. I think a company still...
Fuel quality is a possibility. EGT's that are too high or load is too high, are another possibility. Bad valve seats, or something wrong with...
