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I bought one of these. I keep it onboard, it doesn't need any electricity, and puts out enough pressure that you still need to be careful. It comes with two tips, one direct and one fan. It does a very good job. The nice part is that I can stand on the deck and aim it up to the flybridge...

Ballast We had the same problem with our Monk 36. She was very bow heavy. I had folks climb on board and tell me what they weighed. I need about 1200 lbs! We had an empty, non-useable 90 gallon water tank on the aft port quarter. Ended up taking all the chain people would give me when they got...

Thruster Problems Perhaps I am sexist....but is there some reason you can't put your wife on the helm and YOU do the heavy lifting? I am on the helm all the time when coming and going into and out of slips, moorings, locks...whatever.

Zinc Chromate FYI...zinc chromate and cold galvanizing paint are not the same thing.

Boat wakes The problem very often is that the larger boat going fast chooses not to come off autopilot or off the course on the chartplotter to give smaller boats much room to maneuver or to avoid their wake.

Wire on Monk We have a 1974 Monk. That is a ground wire. Ours runs the length of the boat on both sides. Newer boats don't use that type of wire any longer.

Box Wine containers For those who want to get rid of the cardboard get one of these for the one you're currently drinking: https://www.amazon.com/Menu-4655539-Baggy-Winecoat-Black/dp/B000U81WZY There are others made, just Google 'wine baggy'

Changing Oil Filter Archie, The hole punch works really well on our Monk, especially since the filter is upside down. What were they thinking? I'm convinced that people who design this stuff never have to use it. I do put pads in a big plastic bag and push it under the filter so that the...

How did you cut it down? Do you have any pictures?

Boat name Just remember that if you want to document the boat the Coast Guard has very specific rules about typeface and sizes.

Simrad Autopilot Try this guy. He works on all of them. https://www.robertsonrepairs.com/