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One of the things I don't like about my boat is that it is hard to get on and off of it at the dock. It has two boarding locations on each side. The one at the widest part of the boat, where it is close to the dock has a very high gunnel, and you really have to climb up there. It's not too...

My boat came with a good sized Bimini/awning over the Portuguese bridge area in front of the pilot house. There is a second outdoor helm station out there which it provides protection for. I really like it, as it keeps the sun off, and more importantly where I live, keeps the rain off. It had...

I have been strangely obsessed with boats since I was a kid, (I’m in my mid forties now) and spend an embarrassing amount of time thinking about them, working on them, and occasionally actually using them. I am not sure how it came up, but recently I managed to corner my teenage daughter and...

I am hoping for some good advice on getting my 2015 50HP Honda running properly. I bought the motor as part of the 13' tender on my trawler I purchased it last year. It had been sitting for at least a couple years unused/broken down, in the tropics before I got it. It had a seized steering bar...

My new boat came with Keypower stabilizers. They were due for a seals replacement, and I was too cheap to pay to have it done, so decided to try and replace them myself. I couldn't find much info on the internet about how to do it, and Keypower doesn't seem to have any documentation on how to...

As I have posted elsewhere on this forum I bought a new, used boat last winter, and just finally got it home to Anacortes WA from Hawaii this July. One of the big projects I knew I would need to tackle upon getting it home was installing heat in the boat. It had apparently originally had a...

I am about to embark on installing a hydronic heating system in my new boat. I am going to use a small Kabola boiler, and about 10 fan units, divided into 6 control zones, plus hot domestic water heating. It is going to be quite a project. My big question is do I really need to tap into the...

A few weeks ago now I closed on a new, used boat in Fiji. She is a 52' trawler, built in 1992 in Washington State. I am super excited, but it was a super stressful process. Fiji is completely shut down due to covid, and there was no way to go see it in person. I am crossing my fingers that...

My boat has a double V-belt sheave that is installed on a 1 1/4" keyed shaft that is bolted on the end of the crankshaft of the Starboard main. It drives and accessory shaft that has alternator, fridge compressors, hydraulics, etc off of it. I recently removed the double sheave as part of an...

Hello all, My name is Loren, and I have been lurking on and off on here for years, but especially heavily in the last couple months since I purchased our first Trawler. Our last boat was a 25' foot Aluminum fishing boat that we sold a couple years ago. I am very excited to be back out on the...