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I haven't been paying a lot of attention to the Navaid world, and this announcement in my Local Notice to Mariners caught my attention. Perhaps one of you more informed types can give us all a primer on this. Here's the NOTAM: QUOTE In order to accommodate dredging operations, the U.S. Coast...

I have never fully appreciated my hardtop 30 Pilot's side window shape or function which has the optional canvas and isinglass "windows"- other option was solid glass. One of my Piloteer friends sent me this photo of a modified Pilot with a nice sliding glass panel window mod. Zooming in on...

I am posting this under general discussion about a boat for sale because this is not a listing for the boat, and it is not mine. When I knew the boat back in the 1990s, the 1980 year model 42-foot Bristol trawler named Vendredi (it's Friday in French, I was told) was owned by very dear friends...

A friend has just modified his boat to allow the single diesel to return fuel to either tank rather than the manufacturer's original setup of return to port tank only. The current set up has the engine's return to a wye equipped with a ball valve in two of the legs. Return fuel enters the wye...

I have now suffered two water instrusion events through the exhaust system on my low-mounted NextGen 3.5 KW generator. It is at the repair shop now, but when I goes back in, I want to install a check valve in the 2-inch exhaust hose downstream of the lift muffler. Does anybody know if there is...

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I thought about entitling this "Marine junkyard list," but that seems to encompass too wide a definition. So why not have a sticky post for this topic? List your local one here. I recently wandered through this place, and despite the name, it's all about boats: Southern Cross Ships Chandlery...

Greg QS neatly answered a question I posed here about getting satellite weather on a Garmin plotter, but the highly UN-tech friend on whose boat I installed a Gamin 1040 XS a few years ago has done a bit of research and found from Garmin that he would be on the iffy side of weather reception...

Can somebody with Garmin equipment give me a very short description of the equipment/subscriptions involved or possibly a good website to check out? A friend wants me to help him achieve this goal, but we cannot discuss it until tomorrow. Thought I might be able to get a grasp on the process...

Brother is trying to get his ducks in a row fire-fighting wise and has been in contact with a couple of fire service companies in his area. At the moment, it appears from a reading of the CFR, that a 12-year old bottle in a fixed system is not involved in this newest USCG rule. Are we all in...

This concerns a port FL120 2715E main engine which has been ticking for the last few hundred hours. Stbd engine has no such noise. Engine has about 6000 hours on it. Today, I tried to use my 29-years of twin FL120 stewardship to get a handle on where it was coming from. All I could do was...

I have installed and used the very useful horn timer made by Fogmate on my boats and was recommending it to some friends when one of them pointed out that Fogmate no longer has an internet presence. Looking about for alternatives has yielded nothing comparable in price, size or ease of use...

My 1972 Grand Banks had pretty basic wipers which stopped wherever they were when I pushed the stop button - no fly-back to the park position like your car has. I thus did not think too much about it when the same behavior manifested itself on my 30 Pilot. However, talking with eight other 30...

This is not of much concern to trawlers, but the current 50-foot limit Dupont Bridge over the intracoastal at Tyndall Air Force Base just east of PC is now undergoing the rebuilding funding phase. By law, its height will have to be raised to 65 feet. This increased height will allow vessels...

I am looking for recommendations for a proper gauge to check boost on my 315 HP Yanmar. I understand boost on this engine can be around 32 PSI at full power. I plan to figure out the connection adapters to the port (this is a metric engine) once I have the gauge in hand.

A friend who has had liability with Geiko for I don't know how many years has informed me that Geiko told him they are no longer insuring steel boats. I wonder how many other steel boat owners they are dumping? He asked me if I knew anybody who was writing liability only for a steelie, but I...

Panama City Beach's Bay Point Marina (now apparently called Point South Marina at Bay Point) has just started accepting boats returning to their old slips today and will be fully re-opened in June. This marina along with the two large Panama City marinas and Sun harbor Marina were all destroyed...

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This bodes ill for any Gulf of Mexico coastal interests and even some far inland who can suffer the enormous consequences of flooding from a strong post-hurricane system sweeping through. https://www.yahoo.com/news/bad-news-2022-hurricane-season-123453675.html

It has been about 3.5 years since the cat 5 Hurricane Michael roared through here knocking down millions of pine trees, more than could ever be cleared away because so many of them are in remote areas. The load of combustible material is around 25 time the normal load, and we have been having a...

All us old shade tree mechanics know what to look for on the tips of spark plugs pulled from our cars. What about injectors pulled from our boats' diesels?

I used to be a Jeppeson Chart Club member, and I would irregularly purchase an SD card from them with the updated charts for my area. Things got busy around here back in 2018 when Hurricane Michael came to visit, and I didn't notice for a couple of years that I was no longer getting email...

I gleaned this from the interweb today. https://www.yahoo.com/news/investigator-home-security-cams-captured-200945431.html One question comes to mind as a read this because I don't drink enough in a month to put in a thimble and thus have no first-hand experience with hangovers etc. Can...

I am about to pull the breaker panel to replace the finicky "Engine" breaker on the 12-volt side. I cannot find any knowledge base relating to the source for replacement breakers for this and will probably have to pull it out to get the data necessary to search for a new one, but on the off...