When your liferaft is due for an inflation test, ask that you be there and get to pull the rope to inflate it. Besides the fun of it, it's good to...
An important feature of offshore versions is the insulated floor. Hypothermia is also a survivability factor in liferaft scenarios. The Vikings...
Before you do anything else, you should go to the marinas you might be interested in and determine what the possibility of getting a liveaboard...
+1. I follow several technical forums, and too many new posts begin "I searched for this but couldn't find it". You have one of the few very good...
To redo something like that, I would fill the existing holes with good quality plywood and lay a flat black Formica over the entire surfaces....
I seem to have misunderstood. I took it from the above that the engines were replaced 2 years ago. Pictures and a detailed time-line would be a...
Can you clarify if this was a complete new installation or if the new engines 2 years ago replaced existing engines of the same make/model? You...
Sure would like to see that generator plant! 19 engines! Generating European power @ 50hz, those things are maybe running at a steady 2,000 RPM?...
Good story behind it, too. The man is a warden clearing the area of poisonous snakes in an Orangutan rescue center. He climbs out on his own away...
Fiammetta42 may be on the right track with insufficient loading, or other operational issues. Bear in mind that vic13r said in his first post that...
Print your own on 3M dual purpose transparency film at home. 3M CG5000. I've printed on the film in reverse with a color ink jet printer at home,...
Doesn't show over here in San Diego. I get the "not your country" message, too.
So, where are you going? If I deduce correctly, if you're in California, you're going either to Mexico or to the Pacific Northwest. Chances of...
It would be interesting to see the guts to that, but it's probably potted with epoxy or silicone. I can think of at least four ways to make that,...
Can't say about yours, nut the Naiad fins removed on an 80-footer I ran required a special tool to pop the fin off of the tapered shaft, like a...
The big issue is traction. I've run and delivered many different yachts and sportfishers, and always feel more secure on wood rungs or risers....
I think the "coffee cans" are actually serial/parallel relays, and the isolators you may be referring to are battery combiners like THESE. It gets...
From the article: "NOAA will still provide access to paper chart products based on ENC data, either through third-party vendors or through the...
If you want to enjoy the trip, you should really consider RER's advice. 20 miles off of significant land points is excessive, although you'll be...
Someone else asked the question recently, and that thread is HERE. A lot of questions answered in it. There are more threads on the subject that...
