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I have 3 battery banks. All 3 banks are isolated & independent. A Lithium bank attached to an Inverter charger. That bank powers 120v outlets and devices (fridge, dishwasher, MW, TV, Starlink, etc). One AGM bank for Bow & Stern thrusters. Has its own dedicated hardwired charger. Third bank...

Hello, Despite calling around yesterday and this morning, I have not identified a reliable place/outfit that would be willing to accept packages sent by UPS/FedEx for us. I need to order a couple of boat parts. Our next stops are likely in Wrangell & Petersburg.. we are now in Ketchikan but...

Hello, Engines are 375hp 3208 TA. Cruising peacefully this morning in Alaska, synchronizer is ON.. then all of a sudden the SB engine starts revving out of control, RPM gauge goes to Zero. Port engine is all normal. I turned off the synchronizer, turned off SB engine.. Checked in the ER, all...

I am trying to locate the thermostat for the fridge section of a Vitrifrigo unit. Its the DW260BT unit with a fridge on top, freezer at the bottom. I found the freezer T-Stat, easy. The only place possible is inside the fridge light but I may be missing something obvious. No reply from...

We have a one unit Vitrifrigo Fridge & Freezer. All of a sudden last fall, it was cooling down to only 42-44F on 4.5 (usually on 4, it goes down to 32-34).. Freezer seemed fine. I cleaned any internal ice in the fridge and vacuumed dust off the fans and fins in the back of the unit, this helped...

I am working on plans to install lithium batteries for the house bank. Currently, have 3 x Fullriver 260ah AGMs for house batteries and 2 FLA 960CCA as Start batteries. the Fullrivers are still decent but I installed Solar panels last summer and would like to upgrade to LFP to make the most of...

In August of last year, the techs installed a new Warn dc1000 hoist in my crane arm. They rigged about 25feet of 5/16” SS cabling to lift the dinghy up 18feet or so to the upper deck. I asked for Dynema or such, they indicated that the hoist is not designed for synthetic rope and they were...

We have been anchored for a week in an area with lots of sea cucumbers floating by. Tried to engage my bow thruster yesterday and initially nothing happened. Stern thruster worked fine. Later in the day, I tried again and the thruster engaged but it sounds labored/different and moved much less...

I find that bringing the rudder back to center takes too many pulls (small rotations) with my current steering wheel of 26” diameter. I wonder, with the appropriate adjustments of the cables, if I can convert to a smaller 12-14” wheel. I see several boats have smaller wheels. My steering is...

I have a 20KW Kohler. For a few days it started throwing white smoke but never overheated. I cleaned the strainer, I opened the impeller and it looked perfect with less than 30hrs on it. Everything else looked fine. A few days later, the gen overheated and stopped. With my temp gun, the gen was...

I have an older Nilsson Maxwell v1000 that has been working well for last 3 years. Either myself or local tech perform the yearly maintenance on it. Have anchored 3 times this year with no issues. Today, we came to pull up anchor.. 120feet of chain.. no issues until the last 10 feet of chain...

I see that Renogy is running a pretty good sale on Lithium batteries. Currently, I have 3x 260ah 12V Fullriver for house batteries. Each one of the Fullriver have a ton of Peak discharge current (for 3-5s) to cope with Bow & Stern thrusters demands. The 200ah Renogy lithium seems to only have...

When I activate the Synchronizer, both throttle cables are perfectly smooth. When the sync is off, the SB cable is stiff starting at the mid range RPMs.. the SB throttle goes through the Slave the Sync & is the Slave side. I lubricated the cable a couple of times, still no improvement. Any...

The lining material on the inner face of the generator noise cage is completely gone/worn out. It has dried out and I find pieces of it throughout the engine room. I was thinking of finding an appropriate replacement material and reconstituting that inner lining. I am looking for comments or...

I am embarrassed to ask this question but I have not found reliable directions for this operation. I have a 1000lbs Maxwell Nelson vertical windlass. Its an only chain unit. The windlass has the usual vertical drum (capstan?)on top the chain wheel (gypsy). I have not found a way to use the...

Can a snatch box be useful in decreasing the weight/load in crane operation when pulling a dinghy up. My 1000lb crane davits had a Warn 3700 winch when we purchased the boat. It seemed to have been on the boat for years. In the process of exchanging the wire rope with Dynema, the winch...

I am waiting on an impeller-pulling tool to arrive, it’s still on back order. In the meantime my next door Neighbor in the marina handed me a gear puller to do use. Having never used/held an impeller tool, I am wondering if a gear puller can work if it’s the right size. Thanks Streff

Currently both alternators are wired to charge the Starting batteries (FLA) only. Since I have installed several Victron pieces in our DP Motorhome with good results, I turned to Victron’s Orion (DC TO DC) with bluetooth, to charge the house batts from the starting batts while underway. I read...

I have PYS dripless on the shafts. A small white plastic coupling interfaces between the hose carrying sea water and the rubber body of the dripless. I noticed on our last trip out that this plastic interface could benefit from servicing. I was planning to install a new coupling. It seems to be...

We have a Village Marine WM. I bought all new membranes and cleaning cartridges in the hope of using it much more this year. I went through all the flushing, cleaning cartridges protocol by the book.. all seemed fine as expected. Then I started the watermaking process. However stupidly, I had...

We just finished being on the hard for 3 weeks. Mainly bottom work/paint & prop service. Got splashed today and went cruising straight away. First 15 miles, everything was as usual. Then all of a sudden the bow veered to SB but I can control it back to Center. The turn to SB was more significant...

Our boat is on the hard for a bottom paint and a few minor things. We had the bottom blasted with glass to take everything off. Really great way to see what we are dealing with. Long story short, they discovered that the bottom gel coat was completely removed bow to stern and the bottom painted...

How does one test the water around the boat for escaped current/short?. I read several articles about bonding, zincs, etc but nothing came up about testing the slip. The PO had the boat in fresh water. For what its worth, the survey did not indicate that there is a short on the boat. We moved...

After purchasing our boat, I noticed that the steel cable of the Nick Jackson crane was flattened in several spots. Folks on this forum seem pleased with Dynema rope, so I decided to replace the cables with 3/8” Dynema. The winch is a circa 2013 Warn 3700lbs without a tensioner. As one looks...

I was sitting in the engine room ready to change Racors and secondary fuel filters and I started thinking maybe I don't need to change them yet on 3208TAs. Last season we only cruised for about 100 hrs last season. The vacuum gauges on the Racors is half way to the yellow section (if that)...