70’ is way too big for owner/operator especially with an inexperienced deckhand. I don’t even know WHY anyone would want to do that. It’s...
2002s were effected by Gelcoat issues. My customers is just slightly older and they were all fixed and awlgripped in the early 2000s and haven’t...
I have a customer with a 50’ post with mans and they have over 6,000 hours and have never been overhauled and still run great. Boat cruises at 27...
For boats that cruise under 20 knots, I’ve always had really good results with trilux white. Norseman, I think you put it on too thick
The spreaders (shape and look) should tell you who the manufacturer was by looking at them. Lee’s and Rupp’s spreaders have distinctive design...
Granted you're dealing with larger generators and larger impellors. Most of the generators I'm dealing with are in the 10-25 kw range and tend to...
I change gensets annually or about every 100 hours if they've been sitting a while. I'll go 200 hours if we're on a trip and the hours are being...
Make sure whatever glycol you're using doesn't eat copper as well as whatever fittings you're using to tie it all together. They use rubber hose...
I worked on a 97' MY steel with a canoe stern back in 2003, same owners still since 1987, same Captain since about 1995 who started out as a...
I have seen all sorts of weird iterartions of Scot pumps. So that's nothing unusual.
Or, if the gear lost oil, you'll get out of the slip and have no forward or reverse on one engine and a major OH NO moment.
Limited yes. But I've taken a 90' MY in and out of the inlet and all of the way to the Naples boat club without any issues. Have also taken a 70'...
The outcome sucks, having to do the job twice. PSS makes good seals.
PSS makes good shaft seals. Did you put some lithium grease on your lip seals and then pack your shaft seals with grease before you slid them up?
Do you have any tower fabricators near you? They usually have a bin of cut off tower pieces that are bent in different directions in the scrap...
If a 18" pipe, basically a foot past their normal handle does not free them, and I can't get them free'd and turning with a relatively normal...
Have you checked the nearest deck hatch?
Well, the one in the yacht I manage looked perfect until it split the bowl in half when it flushed one day! But, I would say that that is an...
Lithium is water resistant grease and a light weight, so it should get in all of the crevices inside the seacock easier. Red is lithium also...
Use lithium grease, if you do that.
