An engine that's just been run, no, not needed. cold start the engine? absolutely will extend the life of the engine by oil pressurizing the...
No offence but Berilda would be nothing more than a tender size and crew wise for Lady Moura. Certainly not apples to apples as far as what remote...
I was chief engineer on an old converted Danish hospital ship that had a single Burmeister & Wain Alpha 16U28 for a main engine that had no...
A vessel Lady Moura's size carries 3 or 4 engineers + ETO's etc. and one is always on watch albeit maybe working in the lazz. or in a shaft ally...
Large vessels with air start systems have multiples of receivers to hold compressed air. I was taught to always keep two out of our six receivers...
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Crazy that this could happen as its virtually an impossibility to get underway with shell doors open and not know unless safety systems were...
Not to pile on here but Vripack must be re-calculating their damping coefficients to calculate how many staterooms will be lost to the addition of...
I Installed a few auto pilots and transducers on CSY's in the late 70's as a tech for Electronics for Yachting in Ft. Laud. & remember the CSY...
I spent a week with Seth Atwood in the fall of 1987 while Time had an extended layover at Skull Creek Marina in Hilton Head as she was making her...
Going from yellow to white was referred to as the "yacht package" pioneered unfortunately by Pantropic in Miami in the early "80's and after that...
FireBoy system possibly?
Several coats (5-6) of High solids clear Awl grip was the method used in the 80's and 90's. Not sure what the go to is nowadays. It'll be...
It doesn't surprise me that M.W. is chasing a commission since he was involved with the purchase and sale of the original 86 meter Seven Seas and...
Interesting development if factual. Wright Maritime Group of Fort Lauderdale put the build package together and negotiated the price for the owner...
The vast majority of vessels with sea chests employ electrolytic anti fouling systems in the sea chests to keep them free from hard growths such...
Neon gas only needs voltage to ignite under vacuum. You can hold a bulb next or near to a high voltage transformer and it will ignite in your...
Well, my scientific wild ass guess (SWAG) was way off. You sir are correct in the statement of a resistor being present. I had to break out the...
Better detail in this photo. Pretty confident that this is an alarming fuse. That would be a switching diode with what looks to be a neon tube...
Looks to be a low voltage control medium lag or alarming fuse. Photos kind of fuzzy but that's my SWAG on this.
