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Don't Cut I think it is prudent to have a plan to ditch the anchor. My plan is to have the bitter end of the anchor chain tied to an eye bolt inside the anchor locker using a floating line. The floating line is longer than the depth of water that I have ever anchored in. In the very unlikely...

Shafts turning in current. My previous DeFever had ZF transmissions and the manual states that free willing is ok. In a deep hull boat at less than planing speed the water pressure will keep the shaft seal lubricated and cool. We used to run offshore passages on one engine quite often without...

Crain Failure Dingy crane failure was one of my concerns also. I was afraid it would fail when conditions were bad. My dingy only weighed about 500lbs. I used a 6 purchase block and tackle sailboat boom vang and 3/8 rope. I practiced raising and lowering the dingy and it was all I could handle...

Pay attention to left hand threads I have seen several of boats with this pump that had turned on the pump before opening the sea cock. This caused a very high pressure on the outlet side of the pump and caused the duck bill valve to invert. The solution is to turn the valve back right side...

Put a 1 gal. expansion tank anywhere in the a cold line. It doesn't need to be near the water heater. look at the fittings in the cold supply line to the water heater and make sure you don't have a check valve in the supply. If you have a check valve remove it and with the expansion tank in the...

Reconsider Gas Stove When I bought my last boat one of the first things on my list of things to do was to convert the stove to gas. I bought the boat in the Panhandle of Florida and by the time I got home (Morehead City) with the boat I realized that I needed to run the generator some each day...

Southport Marina The Southport Marina was a very well built. You will have a hard time building a dock that is able to stand up to a direct hurricane hit. I own a slip at the Morehead Yacht Basin. Our docks were built by the same company that built the Southport Marina docks. After hurricane...

New Dingy For me that's an easy choice. 10' AB aluminum and 15 hp Yamaha with electric start. The 10' AB is the driest dingy of that size that I have ridden in. I like the electric start Yamaha easy and reliable. And while you are at it put a bilge pump in it. Shay

Inverter Loads We had the Magnum 2812 inverter in our last boat, it was also powered by a 1245 AH house bank. If you have very robust 12v electrical circuits there will be no problem running either the microwave or the cook top. Elizabeth has baked brownies in the electric oven using the...

Single start battery My previous Defever 49 came with 2 8D batteries on each Perkins 130 engine and a 5th 8D to start the 12.5kw generator. I rewired the boat so I had a dedicated house bank and 1 group 31 Duracell AGM start battery from Sam. The single start battery started both Perkins and...

Escape is sold. Shay Glass

FullRiver 8L16 have worked well 7.5 years ago I installed 6 FullRiver 8L16 AGM batteries. They are used as both the house power and inverter bank. These batteries are still going strong. This past summer after fully charging I removed the jumpers from the 6V pairs and let them rest for 24 hrs...

I really wish I could. We need to spend time on shore and I can't stand the thoughts of not being able to take care of her. There are a lot of boats to pick from and not everyone needs a Defever CPMY. When you get ready for a boat you need to understand how you will be using it, then buy the...

Elizabeth and I are building a new home in Mt. Airy, NC. After 8 years of full time cruising, we are ready to sell “Escape” our 2002 49’ DeFever Cockpit Motor Yacht. Escape is well equipped including economical Perkins Sabre M135 engines and Naiad Stabilizers. We are listing Escape for sale...

Best 16k heatpump for the buck I have worked on and installed a couple Marinaire units. They are well made and reasonable. https://www.marinaire.com/Marine-air-conditioner-16000-btu-110V-p/msba16k2.htm Shay

I don't see any reason to think hot water will flow out of the water heater backwards and down stream to the accumulator it the accumulator is mounted in a cold line down stream of the water heater. I think the accumulator will work just fine mounted anywhere in the cold circuit. Shay :banghead:

Angus99' I have a boat very similar to yours. You can call and discuss your shaft seals and pump system if you want to. 336-710-2188 Shay

You can definitely mount the accumulator after the water heater. It will not make any difference. Shay

Brian, every thing sounds ok except I would use the snubber while setting the anchor. I don't want that much load on the windless. Shay