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I am installing a new Balmer 100 amp alternator with their MC-618 external regulator on my Ford Lehman engine. The alternator is supposed to charge the two battery banks on my single engine trawler. It is all wired up but I haven’t started the engine yet because I need to modify the belt...

Hello. This relates to my 36-foot Island Gypsy trawler, 1984 vintage. She is experiencing a stray voltage leak in the bonding system. Measuring it right at the transom zinc bolt, I consistently get a reading of between 25 and 40 milliamps in the bonding system with my multimeter placed in...

Hello All. The keel plate from my 1984 36-foot Island Gypsy fell off in the ocean. I hate it when that happens. In my case this was a piece of bronze hardware that was screwed to the wooden keel and extended aft under the rudder, with the bottom of the rudder shaft sitting on the...