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Thanks for those tips, I will follow up.

In a few weeks we will depart On an extended cruise that will end in either St. John’s Newfoundland or Nuuk, Greenland.  We expect to arrive in those environs quite late in the year, late October at the earliest. im hoping to find a few people with local knowledge of either location (or other...

I was wondering about using some sort of tough vinyl wrap, like a chip guard protector on top of the original plastic.  What do you think? also, very interested to compare notes on your install. If you’re keen on this send me a pm - I’d love to learn what components and chargers etc. You are...

I’m planning to replace my house batteries with a DIY LiFePO4 setup.  The most popular and cost effective cells all seem to be based on an Aluminum cell case that is wrapped with a thin plastic film.  This looks a bit worrisome for marine application, in particular I’m concerned the cases might...

I spent a pile of time on this today.  Moving the air intake hose I could hear the blower speed up, so not a blockage per se but certainly a lot of resistance. I will use the shortest possible hose on the inlet and get a blower pushing air into the compartment housing the hurricane.  Measured...

I have an older Hurricane Hydronic Heating system on my boat (20 years old, but mostly rebuilt by now) . Nice setup, with engine heat exchanger, hot water heater and three cabin zones. The system works, but it takes me a lot of maintenance to keep it going. For the last year or so I have been...

Thanks for the feedback. I guess it’s relevant to point out this is a 13m boat with a 45 sq. Meter mainsail.  The sail is an aging North 3dl Marathon that has done fantastic service for the past 8 years and still has great shape. But it’s a heavy beast to wrestle down, particularly when it’s...

I’m curious to get opinions on the merits of a sail pack / stack pack whatever you like to call them for mainsail handling. Largish mainsail, getting it flaked boom is a major piece of work and a challenge when short/single handed, so I’m wondering if having a bag on the main would make the...

Thanks overboard, and thanks for noting the details in the original post, ie laser scanned hull etc.  Many of the comments are missing the challenge, some are helpful. As also mentioned in the post, this asymmetry ha been noticed by numerous (at least 5) hotshot skippers who have come on board...

I’m looking for thoughts and suggestions that might explain a pronounced port/starboard performance difference in my boat.  In medium/heavy air the performance seems fairly symmetric, no obvious bias on one side or the other.  In very light winds, though, the boat seems to go faster on starboard...

I’m wondering if anyone has suggestions for improving the actuator arrangement for an above deck tiller pilot. currently I’m using Raymarine’s. ingest tiller pilot, which connects when needed from the top of a cockpit seat to the top of the tiller, about 18” from the rudder post.  this...

New information to update on this situation. 1. New pump will be way more than $500 around where I live. This provides a strong motivation to find another culprit. 2. At the boat I started sucking on the inlet pipe to see what sort of flow I could get. It didn't start a siphon very well even...

The engine is fresh water cooled, so the actual fluid that runs through the engine is a water/antifreeze/coolant mix which is in turn cooled by salt water through a heat exchanger. This was checked, the thermostat inspected and replaced. But if the problem was on this side of the heat exchanger...

Yanmar 3GM30 exhaust producing copious quantities of steam. The engine runs great, but as it warms up the steam production increases and the water coming out of the exhaust decreases. When cold/idling there is lots of water coming out of the exhaust. I have: Checked and rechecked for blockage...

Thanks for the input. I've looked into getting spares for the seals, wipers etc. and it it seems Barn is right about the proprietary nature of the system. The parts a not readily available and it seems that the whole thing is set up for professional maintenance only. So the whole pump unit...

On my new (to me) boat we have a 3 position Selector switch to control the Navtec hydraulics for backstay, vang and out haul. The selector switch seems incredibly stiff, even our burliest crew guy is having to use two hands and tools to select the different positions. Is this normal? I hope...

Looking for any comments to compare the C&C 110 with a Hanse 411 Both boats are the same age, intended use is for the usual blend of racing/cruising C&C 110 can have a sprit attached. Hanse has a symmetric spinnaker plus A-sail for cruising Comments?

Canada slaps a whopping 9.5% import duty when non-US built boats are imported from US to Canada. Does anyone have any experience getting around this for really old boats, boats with American refits or similar forms of value add to otherwise 'offshore' made boats?

When comparisons are sought about "what is the best racer/cruiser" someone invariably makes a comment that "boat x" is sticky in light winds. So I have a specific request for some help in comparing boats for their light wind performance. The boats I'm interested in are the usual suspects, I.e...