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1983 Mainship 34 MKIII. Flybridge trawler - 2 steering stations Foldable Bimini with curtains for upper helm Fresh water: 100 gallons / 2 tanks New pump Fuel: 160 gallons , Racor pre filter plus duel filters on engine Engine. Single diesel. Perkins T...

Very expensive if you can find it That sun gear shaft is no longer manufactured. ?. The pinion gear is still available at $500. You could have a micro weld shop repair the splines.

Paper charts Paper charts and a solid knowledge of how to use them is necessary

1800 all day long. Sweet spot ? 2300 for 10 minutes every 5 hours . The best oil and filters every 100 hours. 2800 hours on her now

Heat Use a heat gun or hair dryer to weaken the 5200. Very effective

It is the chines. Spaghetti floats My Mainship 34 slaps also. I rigged a couple kids swimming pool spaghetti floats on ropes to hold them in the chine at water/wave level.

Solar panels Why you need a generator?

Single Sport fishers have twins

Gear light Best flash light ever. Same as the expensive TacLight. I just ordered another pair From Amazon . Keep loosing or giving them to friends

Auto pilot You will use your autopilot every day. GPS keeps you in the center of the channel. I use my radar 2x per year in the fog capital of the world, Maine.

Air pressure test The ONLY other possibility is cracked block -doubtful. Air pressure test it will locate the leak (my guess is the inter cooler)

Way, way too many dripless packings fail. I love my old rope gland packing. Using GFO instead of flax and no drips. Runs cool. Worst possible failure is a drip once in a while. I removed a dripless and installed the gland. Glad I did

1000 blisters I bought a Nimble Kodiak with at least 1000 small blisters. The boat was in the ocean year Year round for years in Southern waters. I brought it to Massachusetts on a trailer. Over the winter ALL THE BLISTERS DISAPPEARED. ?. They never returned leaving it in the ocean 5...

300 watts I had 300 watts on my old sailboat. 440ah house. Ran everything including frig in Maine.

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