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Hi all, Interlux has discontinued the Perfection line of paints. If anyone has any Perfection Snow White, I'd love to get my hands on some. I'm happy to buy it at a premium and pay what I know will be expensive shipping. It seems I always have things I want to touch up...but I may have to...

Touch panel display thoughts? Hi all, I think I've mentioned in various postings that, very slowly over years, I've been poking at getting a touch panel made specifically for outdoor marine use. I love OpenCPN, but it kills me that there aren't any really good screen options. I've had a bunch...

Hi all, The marina where I presently keep might boat is going to close for 1.5-2 years beginning in the spring for a remodel. I'm looking for an alternative beginning any time from now until the marina closes, lasting until it reopens or indefinitely. I'm on the waitlist one place, and had...

Hi all, There as a thread here a bit ago about upgrading the thermostat in a boat fridge to a digital one. It didn't happen to show how to modify the wiring, so I figured I'd post what I did with my Isotherm CR130 Drink. I'd been low-key wrestling with mine since buying the boat, never happy...

A friend is having some trouble with the integration of his Raymarine E120 (Classic) and Simad NSE12 via a DeviceNet-type NMEA 2000 bus. The Raymarine is tied directly to his radar and autopilot. The simrad is tied directly to his sounder. The Raymarine is tied to the NMEA 2000 network via its...

Hi all, I've posted over time in random threads about having used Liquid Rubber Deck Coating, sometimes marketed as Deck and Dock Coating, in Smooth Saddle Brown, for the insets on my flybridge. They are teak, but are (and always were) insets sitting below the top of fiberglass, meaning that...

I've had battery powered wireless First Alert CO+Smoke alarms in my boat for ~2 years. Never a false alarm until a few weeks ago when, within a few hours of each other, my galley and saloon each alarmed and reported relatively low levels of CO, 50-75ppm. There was no combustion of any kind...

This is just a fork of the discussion in another thread about engine room cameras. I wanted to get my expanded set-up fully tested before posting more detail. I think I am there now. I started out using one of these kits: [Expandable 8CH, 2K] Hiseeu Wireless Security Camera System with 1TB...

I generally park my boat bow in. I prefer more privacy on the cockpit, a view of the water from my aft glass doors and off the back of the flybridge, and making it harder for anyone to casually board once I've taken the swim ladder in. So, when I added an ELCI breaker to my boat, I put it at...

Hey All, This is just a note for anyone it may help. The Kohler 6EOD generator (and likely any others from Kohler using the ADC 2100, among others) has a digital gauge kit that uses the standard CAN/J1939 interface. I didn't want to pay ~$800-$900 for the Kohler digital gauge kit, which...

Hi all, My boat's lower helm has wires running to an enclosure recessed into and built out of the house above the helm's forward window. A windshield wiper motor once lived there. It and the rest of the wiper system was removed ages ago and replaced with something else that needed power, maybe...

Hey All, At some point in time I wrote down instructions for doing valve timing on the 6.354. I don't remember why, I think someone asked as they were hard to find on the Web or manual in a way digestible by someone that had never set valve timing before on any engine. I recently stumbled...

Hi all, So, some may remember my earlier post about a ghost reverse polarity light. I got back on that boat this week, but to trouble shoot different issues that are a higher priority for the owner. Initially, the port bow light quit working. Then the starboard bow light. A 2-conductor 12vdc...

So, I was on a friend's sailboat, there to fix an outlet that stopped working. He'd tried to fix it and found a "black wire disconnected in the main panel, out an end on it, and connected it somewhere on the black bus". He didn't remember where. I found a couple of other AC wires pulling out...

My boat has 40 year old Morse MT2 controls. They work fine, but show their age. This is true even at the lower helm. I figured I'd put in new brand-name controls on the flybridge, where I actually run the boat and where they are more exposed to the environment, but try Brand X controls for the...

Hi all, Everyone appears to be super low stock overall and sold out of Snow White, in particular, with no replenishment dates. I've had orders canceled by those who apparently mistakenly showed stock. West Marine says their order has gone unfilled since December. Anyone know anything about it...

Hey, A friend just bought a Victron Multi 12/3000/120 and is urgently trying to get it installed. The adapter to connect it to a PC was not also purchased and there isn't shipping time. Is there a way to set this up for lithium without? For example, can a generic RS485 to USB adapter be...

Hi all, Some may remember my prior post about swapping my port 6.354(M) engine for a reman after a chronic low-oil pressure issue and the finding of metal in the oil. For those who didn't see the post, I've reposted some more details later. The reman came from a small but 40+ year old legacy...

Hi folks, I've got one of these EM-Trak A-100 Class-A (Commercial) AIS units and bought it 2 years ago at this $499.00 price, right before they disappeared from inventory everywhere: Then, they went out of stock everywhere on earth for months to years. West Marine apparently has them back in...

Hi all, I'm hoping I can ask a favor of the crowd. I'm "asking for a friend" (really!) As you might imagine, I've already offered my own take on the situation (I'll offer it here later), but I told him that I'd post here to get some other perspectives for him w.r.t. how to proceed /and/ why...

Hi all, So, two years ago, I bought a boat with two recently rebuilt motors with just a small few down hours on them -- and no paperwork on the rebuild. One I observed start and run fine at the slip, the other tried to smoke put the whole marine. It was an amazing sight. The seller claimed it...

The manual lists the oil filter for the Kohler 6EOD genset it as a Kohler GM40999. I couldn't find any cross-reference so I bought two online. They had black security labels wrapped around them. I removed one to reveal that the filter is a Perkins 140517030, which cross-references to many...

Hi all, My boat's main entry door is 1" thick and I'm having trouble finding a replacement key-lockable knob/latch. Options for thin doors seem few. The most critical dimensions are: -- The door is 1" thick -- The center line of the lock is 1-3/4" from the door's edge. -- The door opens...

Hi all, I'd like to set the wiring up so that my forward air conditioner can't run when either my stovetop or microwave/oven are in use. In particular, I want to break the connection to the HVAC unit as soon as either device is turned on -- but delay by 5 or so minutes before turning it back...

Hi all, My boat has a 30A Blue Sea Systems 8100 ELCI main breaker that is about 1 year old. As I was walking by it last night, I heard a loud humming coming from the electrical panel. I went in to take a look and listen it was clearly the ELCI. There was no smoke, smell, or noticeable heat...