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Dometic 12,000 btu reverse cycle heating or cooling marine heat pump. Works as either a heater or an air conditioner. Model: RFB CMCP112K...
Excellent posts!! I had a 65' turn of the century (the turn before the last one) dutch barge in England, it was exactly as described and had...
Having read on COB and COG all weekend I think the issue my be that the COG is very close to the COB creating a pendulum effect, that may change...
Opcn- The COb of a vessel is typically just above center of the distance from the keel to the waterline, these batteries, as I stated are 8" above...
Capt.J - that is what I am trying with filling the forward tank. I did find an interesting explanation of this here:...
Wow, I have to say, some of you seem to be on a mission to be armchair trolls. Look, a guy is posting here on a yacht technical forum with a yacht...
Capt.J, Will do. The midships tank is quite forward of center and would add another 3600 lbs, more than double what the batteries added. The...
SeaEric, Here you go.
No water in the bilges at all, dry as a bone. I replaced 64 sf of steel below the waterline and know every inch of the bilges, all are accessible....
Capt.J, Brigand was constructed by Witsen and Vis and is as far as I know the oldest Feadship still afloat, other than brochures almost nothing is...
No Capt. Pedantic, but it is what I have in hand and since we are talking about a sense of "tippyness" one might assume that it could be useful to...
Good thought, I actually have one in my iphone.
It is surprising that it reacts. She is only 13' wide so the "lever" acting on it is not great, in addition the gang way is only about 5' above...
All other loads are the same. All batteries are at the same level they were originally, I have not raised or lowered the floor of the engine...
Perhaps I have moved the center of gravity closer to the center of boyancy... http://kobernus.com/hunter260/water_ballast/water_ballast_index.html
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Forgot to add the star banks to the final one...
Don't know what this turned into a fist fight last time, how about we suspend egos and try to just have a factual discussion... The vessel is a...
Originally fitted with 8 large 8v batteries, these were removed four years ago. I installed two AGM batteries outboard of each motor for start...
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