When you say switch, are you talkning about over ride, manual switch, or are you talking about circuit breakers?
I dont understand how one pump would trigger all the others. Never seen any boat rigged that way ad i dont see the point. Each pump should have...
I mean watcbing for smoke on a cold start. Depeding on outside temp they should smoke very little when started and it should clear very quickly....
I put 5500 hours on a pair of 3412Es, about 60% of which at hull speed. They passed survey with flying colors, no smoke and excellent oil...
I havent wat he any of this since trying to make it thru one entire episode a few years ago, must have been first season. I find it hard to...
What size? For larger sizes Exalto is pretty good and used by a number of builders. Distributed by imtra
We do both charters and owners trips but frankly it makes no difference in the efforts we put in. With owners, it is a less formal and if...
I have two pronautic on my hatteras, the one i have on the gaffer is the protournament quad
Not familiar with Sterling. I have an electric inboard on the 26' classic gaffer i built, powered by eight 6 golf cart batteries in a 48 volt...
Lol. As a captain on an 84, driving the boat is the easy part. Keeping everything running when in the Exumas for weeks at a time on the hook is...
The idea of getting a land based crew to wash and clean after a trip works for a day or week end trip. It will not work out when cruising which is...
Back then some of the cheap builders indeed used plywood for stringers with chopped strand glass which doesnt have much strength but was cheap to...
240 is very hot, I wouldn't be surprised if you have damage. Check the oil and coolant level carefully, as well as exhaust hoses. If you lost raw...
Get th prop to a good shop, have the alignment checked as well as the shaft with a dial gauge to make sure it s true
If it s a vibration, pull the wheel and have it checked by a good prop shop. Next would be to check the alignment. Stringers shouldn't rot...
I seriously doubt ferretti installed sea water heads in an 80 footer :)
With dual racor i use one at a time. At oil change i replace the one that was used and switch to the other one.
I usually change them at every oil change (200hrs) along with the secondaries.
The 12' strip planked cat boat on the top deck is named Sabrosa and we have a 26 strip planked gaffer that i built named Sabrosura :).
I won't know until we do a full sea trial. Let me clarify that the 2200rpm and 17 kts was NOT full throttle. We may turn 2600 on the pins. I...
