Very good answer and also very true
When in Sweden they explained it was only to save space (saving grace, I thought you were telling me the answer as you asked it). They built...
wondering where "mud box" appeared in that link you posted. External sea water screen, is mounted on the "external" area of the hull and...
CaptJ, do you want to edit the above before anybody corrects it for you.
He told me that he was on his first or second boat and the strainer filled up with very fine grass and it overheated the engine whereas the other...
Is it the "seastrainers" that you refer to in the above that stop the sand or is it the "sea chests" that you refer to in your next post....
If you were to ask that most sucessful sport fishing boat builder why his boats do not have sea water strainers you would find his answer has...
Hi K1W1, The most sucessfull sport fishing boat builder over the last 10 years does not use strainers and replies on the external sea water...
As already mentioned, Tuna Tubes are for keeping bait alive, usually small tuna but they need to be face down in a tube with a good water flow...
I saw an installation on a Sunseeker that had a dedicated fresh water tank for the hot tub. This tank was below the Master stateroom bed and had...
I just copied the following from a major yacht management companies web site Are You Mechanically Inclined? Consider A Job As A Yacht Engineer....
You never know when to give up do you, I wonder if that Feadship owner would want to sit down with the Captain who ran that Ferretti up the beach...
At least now you know that you can replace a cylinder in anyone of them while at sea and the engines are running. That should give you time to...
CaptJ, do you ever bother going back to your previous posts and read them, I had no intention typing for what seemed for ever yesterday explaining...
Trust me bobbing about the ocean in the middle of a Typhoon with another one heading your way in the South China sea, having put out the latest...
CaptJ, I am perfectly able to read & understand your reply and let me tell you something which you may find interesting, One, I was a Gardner...
I just read your reply late on a friday night after a number of beers and I think somebody is really taking the pi-s here. AV, RV mechanics...
Your work rate should be commended, however it is strange you use a Gardner engine as an example to work on, You may find an old 8L3B ona very...
CaptJ, Do you ever sleep as you seem to post alot on here and at the same time drive just about every kind of boat out there all at the same...
Between drinking the coffee and smoking at least 3 packs a day this 1970's Marine Engineering Officer did sit down after climbing those stairs and...
