"So, I guess I will head down island and get a voodoo doctor to ENG1 me." Canadian medicals are equivalent. Go north young man. If an FAA...
I was the one who was not clear on the hours, 250 to 1000 p.a. is what Cat state as "normal", for some reason when I responded I had another...
If I were going to buy an engine from them I would make sure they put in writing that they are placing warranty conditions on the engine beyond...
I'm not interested in getting into a pissing match trying to defend Cat but if they say there is no warranty issue then there is no warranty...
Found it! Cat has an online Marine Selection Guide with the following information: Time at Full Throttle: “E” rated engines in typical pleasure...
The total fuel burn cannot be reset because that figure is central to calculating the load factor. If it were reset the load factor number would...
"It takes an engineer qualified captain ..." In an industry where it is increasingly difficult to find a deck qualified captain that is a big...
"Should one have to stick to this 30% load factor for all RPM ranges (actual fuel burn vs. the maximum power fuel burn for each RPM)? Or can one...
Caterpillar E rating: High Performance - For vessels operating at rated load and rated speed up to 8 percent of the time, or one half hour out of...
Ah, yes ... the Heartland Institute. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Heartland_Institute
Yeah, we use flash evaps running at around 162 - 170 F, just high enough to kill bacteria but minimize scaling. The only treatment involved at...
"I believe that drinking pure fresh water ( less than 50 ppm ) will cause extreeme diarrhoea." Why would you believe that? On steamships we...
"I hope you will one day have the pleasure to work on such a nice vessel. Or as a guest. So you can chill out a little bit. " I have seen...
"I don't think there will be many "guests" aboard a North Sea Fishing Trawler will there???" An ocean going tug or an Icelandic trawler just...
This really is becoming a case study. "The captain had all the papers and claimed 10 years of yachting experience" You have now learned...
"To blame me - somebody with no nagivational training nor experience - because I had seen how the anchor chain was secured looks incorrect to me...
The OP wrote: "... oil is good, no water in separator, but a bit milky." I read that as the lube oil is good. The fuel in the separator is a...
"To me it sounds like equipment failure!!!" That "hook" is what seamen call a "devil's claw" and it is designed to hold the anchor in a stowed...
LoLo yacht, that was sort of a joke ... a LoLo vessel is a "Lift On - Lift Off" ship, the standard break bulk type vessel with cargo gear that...
I hope "no limit" was what your accountant replied when you asked how much you had available for this project! The old standard of about 10...
