\ Every technical discussion with you turns into a pissing match. My entire point here was to discuss and disagree with what you said in post...
The following is a direct quote from a 2008 thread between Marmot and K1W1, who has not been around in a while but was a respected member here and...
I think you missed the point of my comments above. It is not so much the difference between 80% and 68% but running for example 7 of 8 hours at...
I was on my boat this past weekend and went through my CAT C18 manuals and the guidance is as I posted above. These are the standard factory...
I will second using prop speed on your bow thruster props. I’ve tried petit and bottom paint and a few other things, and prop speed with a...
Rather than disassembling and rebuilding the pumps yourself, I would send it to Depco Pumps in Florida. For a reasonable price they will do a...
I think most of what your saying is correct. But not #2. The 100% load is strictly limited running time for E rated engines - thats because it...
Let me try to make this a little simpler. CATs D rated engines say the following. Look closely at the figure which shows what needs to go with...
What I posted has everything to do with load at cruise or continuous load. What I posted is also directly copied out of CAT literature and not...
What I posted above is not CAT C18 specific. It is the load and duty rating guidance across many of the large CAT industrial diesels including...
I have looked into this quite a bit over the years. I had CAT 3208s for 16 years and now C18s. There is the common folklore about running modern...
I agree with the above about getting a few reliable quotes to set your price reduction. You need to gauge the quality and state of the interior,...
Everything Pascal said is spot on. AC may need new compressor or something more simple. Stern thruster, just get a price reduction to cover a...
Hi Pascal. Thanks for the suggestions. I will definitely look into temp sensors for the ACs. I am always worried about the sea water pump...
Thanks for the response. The SENA and Eartec are the two that look good on a search. I like the idea of a headset vs handset when docking and...
Well, we have a 50 ft Viking Princess that I put about 2500 hours on going from the Chesapeake to Florida and back 4 round trips and maybe 25 or...
We just took ownership of a 2006 68 ft Viking Princess. The boat is near immaculate as it was a great lakes fresh water boat most of its life...
I’m a little late to this discussion, but I have thought about this quite a bit and looking to our next step up it comes up again. There are some...
I was not endorsing his use of a bow thruster while under way - I assumed that experienced captains such as yourself would know that. I was...
While the waves seem to be pushing the boat around more than I would like for a 63 ft boat, I think the main problem is he is doing a horrible job...
