Bigfish
Senior Member
- Joined
- Jan 25, 2013
- Messages
- 297
- Location
- USA
- Vessel Name
- My Lady
- Vessel Make
- Formosa 42 Double Cabin
New boat for me. 1981 Formosa 42 "My Lady." She's in the yard about to get a new bottom job, no blisters! and a few other odds and ends. The engines ran well in the sea trial with no apparent issues but the PO only took it out 3 times in the last 5 years I think. 2750 hours on both.
I want to treat "My Lady" right so I'd like advice as to what I should do with the engines. I'm assuming I should change the oil and filters but I'm unfamiliar with the filter arrangement on these engines and I've never dealt with racors and know nothing about them yet. I've read here that it's a good idea to replace the pumps? and the heat exchangers? And probably the exhaust elbows too?
I've noticed that some have modified their filter setups for various reasons and I'd like to hear what and why's.. This boat has two 350 gallon tanks that were seriously hidden behind sound proofing and all we could see was a fairly good sized access port (?) on each of them but we didn't open them. There are no apparent fuel leaks anywhere and no smell of diesel either.
I'm 62 and as much as I'd like to just pay someone to get in there and do everything, I also want to know what everything is and where it is.
I'm hoping to leave as soon as possible from Punta Gorda, FL with my wife Victoria who started the very popular "For Women Only," post in the Welcome Mat forum a couple weeks ago. We hope to spend the year or more exploring the keys, bahamas, and ?
I've got a lot of time on the ocean in my small cuddy cabins over the years, and also returned from Cabo to LA on a friends 53' Alaskan woody 30 years ago. I also chartered a 39' mainship single screw for a week at Catalina Island and a 38' Bayliner in Puget sound for 10 days but that's all my experience in the last 10 years of being boatless.
Thanks for any and all your ideas and recommendations. like where to buy what parts at what prices.. etc..
Excited about our new adventure. Also any bottom paint recommendations before the yard starts it tomorrow? What should I expect that to cost??
Bob
I want to treat "My Lady" right so I'd like advice as to what I should do with the engines. I'm assuming I should change the oil and filters but I'm unfamiliar with the filter arrangement on these engines and I've never dealt with racors and know nothing about them yet. I've read here that it's a good idea to replace the pumps? and the heat exchangers? And probably the exhaust elbows too?
I've noticed that some have modified their filter setups for various reasons and I'd like to hear what and why's.. This boat has two 350 gallon tanks that were seriously hidden behind sound proofing and all we could see was a fairly good sized access port (?) on each of them but we didn't open them. There are no apparent fuel leaks anywhere and no smell of diesel either.
I'm 62 and as much as I'd like to just pay someone to get in there and do everything, I also want to know what everything is and where it is.
I'm hoping to leave as soon as possible from Punta Gorda, FL with my wife Victoria who started the very popular "For Women Only," post in the Welcome Mat forum a couple weeks ago. We hope to spend the year or more exploring the keys, bahamas, and ?
I've got a lot of time on the ocean in my small cuddy cabins over the years, and also returned from Cabo to LA on a friends 53' Alaskan woody 30 years ago. I also chartered a 39' mainship single screw for a week at Catalina Island and a 38' Bayliner in Puget sound for 10 days but that's all my experience in the last 10 years of being boatless.
Thanks for any and all your ideas and recommendations. like where to buy what parts at what prices.. etc..
Excited about our new adventure. Also any bottom paint recommendations before the yard starts it tomorrow? What should I expect that to cost??
Bob