I agree that some of the Taiwanese yards are getting pretty good but still seem to miss the boat in one area or two......but I've still seen some...
Lightly rinse the engine, making sure to stay away from air intakes, valve cover breathers, electrical stuff......I sometimes use GUNK on the...
How often do you hose down/wash your engine room? I usually do that every month or two.....depending on the boats usage. Also the hull air vent...
Cost would be the main reason they are not installed with GPS, also they may sit around or the container may actually be owned by another company....
Yeah but if everything were easy nobody would have a job. Manufacturers do things a certain way to save them money and it all boils down to the...
At what vessel length or tonnage is it required? 500 GTor larger I would guess?
Personally I am not too keen on the AIS tracking stuff myself for the tracking purposes. However, I like the AIS of other vessels when they pop...
I don't believe that. I use silicone on panels that are meant to come apart again. For example, an access panel that you don't want to vibrate...
I think I saw the same boats in the Port of Miami about a month ago. They were being unloaded from the deck of a much smaller freighter...
Tape off the area around the electronics display really well with 3M green tape, and then take a razor knife and cut the silicone away like a...
Use a block of wood and put it under a piece of the motor mount itself, or on the engine block somewhere........you only need to move the motor a...
I agree, or you can also use a bottle jack and some blocks of wood to set it on and distribute the load.
Wow this is very unfortunate. Did he fall out of the tender with other people in it and they didn't notice? Or both him and the tender dissappeared?
The nut on the backside, is to loosen or lock the seacock handle. Turn the seacock handle side with vice grips and see if it turns. I have seen...
Hatteras, Lazarra, a few others.......I can say one thing, the Azimuts have been the most labor intensive and costly for me to maintain (I own a...
If you tell us what you're looking for in a motoryacht, we might be able to advise you better as to what builders would be the most accomodating....
Actually last year I know a few manufacturers that jumped ship to the Omni location away from the collins show, because it was considerably...
Very true, but they also my put the very heavy containers below deck for stability reasons, and or depending on whether the ship has multiple...
The drug lords have just as much to worry about as the smaller guys. Rival's trying to take them out, people trying to kill them for the cash,...
I might have run that boat a few years back. I ran a 54' with 12v71's with a hardtop. It had a lot of hours, around 4600. It was in Florida,...
