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In that case, you will find the thread below of great help in doing the upgrade: http://www.trawlerforum.com/forums/s24/window-replacement-16012.html

Should be a fun boat. If you won't have covered moorage and if it still has the original 9' long wood frame aft cabin windows, set some money aside to replace them with aluminum frame windows. Keeping them watertight is nearly impossible. Otherwise it is an excellent boat.[emoji106]

No rating plate, but I lifted my 11' Livingston dinghy and several mopeds aboard with it many times. I was more concerned about the nylon blocks and ropes than the mast. The owners manual should be in one of the two sticky files at the top of this, the Californian, group category. You can print...

With no one left to ask, I've always assumed it was since it connects the center of the cabin top to the floor structure. Deck Sagging has always been a problem in these boats as they age. Main salon floor will be the first place you notice it and then the flybridge floor will begin to fell...

Based on your picture, the valving appears to be setup for a standard 4 tank Californian LRC aft cabin boat. If you have a center queen, then you won't have four tanks as someone else already mentioned. Normally, if you have two full sized beds, one each, port and starboard, you should have...

That looks pretty good Al. I've got to do mine too. Port side, salon floor is drooping a bit. Think I'll start out with your design concept and adapt it to my setup. Hope you didn't patent it. :blush:

Maybe just shop around for the availability of shaft material to make sure they have enough in stock to cut the shafts for you. The length is pretty critical, so you want it right for your boat. I have 1 3/8" shafts and this was the bearing size on the box that the new bearing came in 1 3/8"...

Good question, but I think it was the 38'. The 42's, in the 70's at least, had a seam 4' ahead of the transom that ran from side to side. Which looks like they used a two piece hull mold to make a 38' mold into a 42' or maybe they did that so they could use one mold for both lengths, who...

Isn't that a fun project. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed ripping out the old wooden frames and scraping the conglomeration of numerous layers of sealants. Which included at least one misguided application of 5200. But on the bright side, once it's done, 40 years of misery are behind you...

I would think that the 6BT Cummins would be a good step up from the 6-354T's which were mostly rated at 185 hp in the 42's. I forget, but seems like the 3208 wasn't offered until a little later. Plus being a V8 took up a lot of the engine room width. A few more HP would serve that hull well...

If you're talking about the Trawler version of the Californian LRC's, only ones I've seen with Cummings were after market conversions. Standard was 4 or 6 cycl. Perkins and Cat 3208's later. Almost all of the 34' to 42' were twins. I've seen one early factory 42' with a single Perkins 6-354T...

I agree. Go with a diesel furnace. I lived on my trawler through one winter. It is equipped with three Thermadore electric wall heaters front, rear and center as you described. When the outside temp dropped below 32f you couldn't keep the boat warmer than 65f inside. And when it got down in...

I'll fourth or fifth those who said to not let those "mechanics" back on your boat. Throwing the jenny away, because they can't figure out how to start/repair it is ludicrous. I also have the 7.5k MDJE and they're comparatively simple to work on. Sounds like the problem is in the starting...

Must be a pretty old unit. Sharp doesn't list it any longer in their service dept bulletin. That's an inexpensive brand, measure it up and go to Lowes, HomeDepot or Walmart and replace it. The smaller oven are around $130 and will last for years.

Congrats on your purchase, they're a fine boat. Unfortunately, the interior wood is just a thin mahogany veneer. You can try a light spot sanding, and a little stain, but I haven't had much luck with that. Ends up looking worse than before. If the leak got into the plywood below the veneer...

Just outside the San Juans, North side of Guemes Island we catch lots of flounder, sanddabs and sole which we use as live bait for lingcod fishing in the Spring. Don't know if they're there all year long, but worth a try. Chunk of chicken and skin pulled over a medium size hook and a 6 oz...

Back in my early scuba diving days, we regularly dove a cove some miles South of NAS Whidbey Island for old training bombs. The bottom was littered with lead practice bombs, which we recovered, melted down and poured into molds for diving weights. We sold some to a yard building a '60...

https://www.thetford.com/customer-support/dealer-and-service-center-locator/ You didn't say which state you are in, but go to their website (above), look up the nearest service center to you and call them with your question. Different applications and models may be different and have your...

What I have read says Wellcraft bought Marshall out in 1980 and sold it back to Marshall in 1984. Some of the confusion surrounded the 42' Californians that Marshall continued to build for Wellcraft. Doesn't sound like Wellcraft ever really took full control of the manufacturing. Mine is a...

I'll second that, BoatUS has been a No Hassle Insurance Co. for me for 15 years now. You have same year boat as mine and they've never questioned it. I like their program and the support they give the recreational boating community through the BoatUS Foundation who goes to bat for us opposing...

Nice. My first lesson was, household sizzers are really not good enough to be used on canvas and Sunbrella. My second lesson was, those new $45 shears I bought are incredibility sharp, they come with a holster for a reason and removing blood drops from white Sunbrella is a pain.:whistling:

Harbor Marine has a Bellingham store now? I've always gone to the one at the Everett Marina. That would be a lot closer, I'll have to check that out.

Yup, probably a leaky filler cap or another source of entry. Water in fuel is nearly unheard of in the US and Canada since they stiffened the rules on fuel storage tank monitoring and EPA licensing of underground storage tanks. If you've got detectable levels of water in your tank, then the...

Never used anything other than diesel in my 4-200 gallon black steel tanks. Boat is 1976 model and we bought it new. After seeing tests that showed no appreciable difference between keeping tanks full verses half full, I did change my keep full policy to 1/2 tank at the end of boating season...

My boat came with two LA 8D's and I switched to two LA 4D's in the battery box and one 4D for the generator, only because they're quite a bit lighter and not that much different. Three 4D's are more amperage than two 8D's. Keep in mind the size of the battery case may be an important...