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In our 2 years of owning the TRUE LOVE, this was our longest stay aboard, the furthest out to sea we've been, and our first overnight passage. We were aboard for 15 days. It was also our first waterspout encounter, but I'll get to that later. The crew was my wife, our 7 and 9 year old boys, a...

As soon as the kids are out of school Memorial Day, we're taking our power cat from Ft Myers to Bimini around from the keys and then back through Okeechobee on the way home. About 16 days or so. I have a couple questions that may be aided by your collective expertise. Has anyone stayed at...

Had guests on my boat last week, and while at anchor in Pelican Bay, Cayo Costa, FL ( hot as blazes), after about 10 hours of running the Air Con units, smoke began pouring out of the engine room- more specifically the generator sound containment box, and even more specifically the windings end...

We had our Cruiseaire AC units recharged recently and because our Vitrifrigo drawer units were not cooling quite enough, we had the man look at recharging that unit as well. He pulled it out and said that the unit is not rechargeable. Does that sound like it makes sense? What kind of $3200...

I have twin Yanmar 110 hp 4jhj4lte motors. Rated max RPM is 3200 and that's what it will make. Someone ran my boat for 90 minutes at WOT yesterday. Is that a dangerous thing to do? My instinct was certainly not to like learning they did that. David Hughes 2009 Leopard 37 Powercat

This morning after driving an hour from one marina to the next, my port engine would not start. It made no noise at all, just had the usual oil and battery lights on. Battery problem seemed unlikely as it had just been run and meters said batteries were strong. I verified that boat was not in...

So the family and I were on our Leopard 37 Powercat , just leaving Shark River in the Everglades, on a trip to The Keys. Three miles offshore the overheat alarm goes off on the starboard motor. I immediately turn it off and continue on the port motor as I think about things. Not 30 seconds...

I have skippered several twins over the years and have seen about half the boats feature integrated trans/throttle and half separate them. Maybe it's because I learned on a single lever per motor, but that's what I still prefer. My own 2009 Leopard 37 powercat also has a single lever for each...

Greetings. I've got a 6 year old Raymarine autopilot that has just started becoming unreliable. Sometimes, usually after a recent input change, it seems to get locked up in a given rudder orientation and the boat will start moving in a big circle. If I input a change, it will respond, but it...

Ok, I know a catamaran isn't really a trawler, but this boat gets great mileage like one, and is slow like one, and is generally used like one. I hope that counts. : ) After owning nothing bigger than a 25' Cobalt on our lake house in Georgia, in recent years my wife and I started chartering...