Do you have telemetry recording (GP-Link) on your engines? OR onboard computer recording the engine pressures, temps & RPMs? Ask your Cat tech to...
White smoke is un-burned fuel igniting in the exhaust manifold. You dropped a valve or water in a lung and you pushed an injector out. Hopefully...
Bad turbo bearing. You sure it was black smoke not blue? Neutral, low idle? What was oil level and color before starting?
Uh Oh, Your wife is gonna be pissed now.. Don't tell her yet..
For really using a paper chart, We plot our progress off shore. Since the ocean is always there, a few year old chart is still good. Off shore...
I remember ancient reading history, The Nav charts were so used to, are printed by a contractor. Since we know a government office can not...
I agree. See #24 above. I recall the kids at Huckins Yacht puts their new builds together with small nut first. Any customers prop they service...
I read the info would be available for a private company to take over, print and sell. It would be interesting if a private company would go into...
From another on-line source, 11 16 2019; M/Y Lohengrin, a 161-foot Trinity and M/Y Reflection, a 107-foot Christensen burned in a fire that...
Post #16, second picture does not show a tab washer. Those are threaded holes for a removal / install tool (Prop Smith?). Also in the pic from...
I lost a valve seat on a 671 and made nice white smoke from Lake Worth to Jax during a delivery. Dasm engine still made rpm on 5 lungs. Amazing...
God bless Fire Fighters everywhere. I hope nobody was hurt.
Whoa!!! That is a very hard question to answer. IMO (due arguments); a proper repair on a proper repairable wheel should last forever. This does...
Now we have some data. Dead-rise may be a large contributor in MPG. More V, more wet surface drag, better ride at speed less mpg. Less V in da...
5 years later I have to admit, I have a returning oil leak. Behind the 12V71 H/E, dual belt PTO to the alternator, Freaking PTO seal leaking...
First thing above all else,,, Has the MAN factory services been preformed on the heat ex-changers? Are all MAN service logs current. We all luv...
Also, These different mfg's have different hull designs and wet surface (drag) calculations. It gets hard to further offer real hard data on mfg...
Can you offer engine models and HP tune for the forum to comment on?
I forgot to mention, I was pointed to AV P. Thx Bud.
I think it goes back to the mfg's, insurance companies and law enforcement. USCG really does not want to dictate how to build a boat past what the...