Ah heck Judy, you don't need to worry about sort of ... wow, what was that...
It's a tough place to be an inventor. Look what happened to Bruce Simpson about 10 years ago.
Barnacles are one of a few hundred other issues ... boats are not cars.
No they wouldn't, drivers and passengers would catch pneumonia and die of exposure because the wind rain and snow would whistle through those nano...
A lot of them eh? If your paddle type flow switch starts turning you have other problems ... What kind of watermaker uses a paddle switch for...
Ah so, Post #14, sorry. I look forward to the response from the original poster of that tale.
kafue wrote: Are you saying the halon destroyed the engines and generators?
Go to Ebay and search for "paddle flow switch" and you will find a multitude of very good switches for very little money. Wire one on each...
Maybe, maybe not.
What's the alternative? There may or may not be overheating damage but until the system is restored and the engine restarted and trialed, short...
Was that for steam or hot water?
Welding indeed. It was obviously done by laser proton stir welding in a NASA vacuum chamber them micromachined internally in order to disguise the...
That's impressive. It looks like your seawater flow failed and the coolant overheated, did not relieve or alarm and the tank ruptured. As K1W1...
Missed this post somehow. We had a class of supertankers on the Valdez run that were constructed with HT steel. They were plagued by hull...
Excellent point. Aluminum boat owners should be very careful about wire clippings and drill swarf in the bilges.
If you are going to take the classes and have the seatime documented and are willing to put up with the other cover charge crap, then get the...
Who said anything about engineers? That sort of thing is why it is so difficult to get even the most simple concept across to someone who asks...
Silly captain ... I got a 100 ton master 20 years ago. I have owned and operated boats from 30 feet to 110 feet and managed to avoid sinking or...
No one said anything about 100 ton masters lacking competence or having smelly feet. It is not what the thread is about either. Find another...
Considering that the operation you describe is one which does not require a license of any sort for anyone, any such accusation is absurd in any...