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Still thinking of selling? I just saw this old post, are you still thinking of selling?

I’m looking for any drawings, photos or personal experience with Art DeFever Designed paravanes from the 1970s to mid 80s. I have a 1978 steel hull, aluminum house DeFever built in San Diego, the design is basically a stretched DF48. There were no paravanes or rigging on the boat when I...

My boat has two heads, each with a shower and a sink. The shower and sink drain into a stainless steel tank, each tank is around 8-10 gallons, each has a float switch attached to the pump. When you take a shower or wash your hands the tank fills lifting the float switch and it then pumps the...

The previous owner on my boat put several jabsco 34600 pumps, two in the engine room to augment the bilge pump and one for each of the two gray water tanks. Each pump has an inline strainer before it gets to the pump. The pumps are old and loud and the rebuild kits are costly so I now I'm...

I can't help you but I will be looking for the same thing shortly, please let us know what you find. I have a 55' steel DeFever built in 1978, I bought it in New Orleans 6 years ago, I had a guy down there do the survey for my insurance. My boat had too much fairing compound so they had to...

I need to replace my low oil pressure sender and I can´t find the part number. I contacted our local marine cat dealer and they couldn´t find it either. I have a cat D343TA with an Electronic Protection system, energize to shutoff or ETS. The system will shut the engine off if any of the three...

For those saying get a qualified marine electrician, I agree, I'm not going to make major changes on my own, like I said in the original post, my goal is to learn and understand how my boat works.

O C Diver/Ted, You are absolutely correct, thanks. I have never connected two cords and don't ever plan to, if I ever need more than 50 amps I will run the generator. Other than fixing the dangerous issue of the hot male plug I'm really not worried about 100 amps vs 50 amps, plan is to remove...

djmarhand, yep... as I started taking a deep look into this system I noticed the issue with the hot male plug. Assuming this system is safe, my plan is to remove one of the shore power plugs and install a new 50 amp CB. But I will leave the 100 amp CB at the distribution panel as the boat has a...

Why is that not safe? All wiring to the distribution panel on the boat is rated for 100 amps, each of the two 50 amp supply cords will have 50 breakers at their supply so I can't pull more than 50 amps from each cord and both supply cords will be from the same source so phase won't be a...

Let me start with my priorities are; Safety then corrosion THEN ABYC standards. In an effort to constantly learn and understand my boat I have been reading Nigel Calder and John Payne books on marine electrical and neither of them suggest a system like mine, Charles Industries isolation...

Two questions that may or may not be related. I have a steel boat so galvanic corrosion and Electrolytic corrosion are a concern. I have been reading "Motorboat Electrical and Electronics manual" by John Payne trying to learn as much as I can. In the Electrolytic corrosion section under Ground...

It's been almost a year... are you still happy Mantus owners?

I'm a newbie. I recently moved my boat up the ICW from Stuart FL to Savanah GA. We were North of Brunswick were the tides and currents are extreme. The plan was to anchor out for the night, it was an hour before sunset and two hours before peak high tide. I pulled off the ICW into a narrow...

I too am in need of a Bimini, only have one quote so far, $8000, it's a 55 foot boat with a large flybridge and I need both canvas and the SS support. IMO with canvas the quality of work is more important than price, in my search I have found several people whose poorly fitted canvas lasted half...

BandB, sorry I did not address your time question, basically every waking moment for the past four years. If I was not actually working on the boat I was thinking, studying, reading, searching the net or other wise focused on the boat, thus the almost divorce comment. Right after I bought it I...

BandB, I paid a bit less than $50K for the boat and have put roughly another $150K into the project. I had a yard paint the exterior, install a bow thruster, repair the damaged mast and install new cutlass bearings, I did everything else. (Search YouTube for "Hank the boat") As for the boats...

After six years of studying Yacht world I bought a 55 foot late 70s steel trawler, after four plus year refit costing double what I budgeted(and almost causing a divorce, seriously) I just completed an 10 day 1100 mile passage from Corpus Christi TX to just north of Fort Lauderdale, the first...

November 18th I will depart Corpus Christi TX.... Lord willing (weather) I will go direct Dry Tortugas.... ultimate goal is the Chesapeake by early spring. I still have to go to work so I will travel for a few weeks at a time and leave the boat for a few months then travel for a few weeks until...

I don't know anything about the Bestway, but wanted to say WELCOME!! I will say in my opinion... in general I don't look much at brand... anything over 10 -15 years old it is far more important to look at how the boat was maintained...

Another silly question.... so I bought a full set of Signal Flags, saw the guy at the Annapolis boat show, $100 bucks for a full set out of China...they arrived the other day and I'm not sure how to attach them... :banghead: Each flag has a loop on the top and a line on the bottom, see photo. I...

Just got my Vespermarine xb-8000 AIS, I really liked the idea of getting NMEA data over wifi. I'm looking for recommendations from folks that have one... what apps(android or apple) have you found and what data from the wifi does the app display? Has anyone found an app that works with the XB...

here is the pic, you can see the pulley and sprocket

Thanks much Big Cat, I received the emails and the 5 pdf documents, exactly what I was looking for. I'm sure once I read through them I will have more questions, hope you don't mind. I'm looking forward to what the old timers will have to say, while looking around on line I saw a picture of a...

Here is my email; joel@mc130.com Thanks again. Joel