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Hi, It is my turn to provide some pictures or tips to this excellent forum concerning a Dickinson install: - location of the heater: I had no many options and near the door communicating with the cockpit was the only one, with benefit of permanent fresh air intake more easy to install than on...

Hi, I know the best specialists of Dickinson are here! May I ask where do you locate the hi temp fuel shut off kit sold by Dickinson ( a well customized Teddington appliance)? Answer 1 : between oil metering valve and 12v pump ( this is my fitting )? Answer 2: after 12v pump ? About overflow...

Hello every body, Merry Christmas and Happy new year!Fair winds, following sea! I have decided to relocate my trawler Balder VIII from south atlantic spain ( Andalucia) to french atlantic coast ( Royan) where I have a berth and further north later, I hope, Brittany, Channel Islands, UK, North...

Hi everybody, My beefy Webasto Blue Cool Premium AIRCO with Webasto diesel water heater integrated + 4 air handlers is now working properly...( not an easy task...) But considering new trips to northern latitudes, I would like to retrofit as a back up, a Dickinson diesel heater ANTARTIC model...

Hi everybody, One of my GPS 100 Maretron antenna in my NMEA 2000 system refuses to confirm where I am located on this small planet... I tried a cold start, no answer. Sometimes, it looks like fix will stay but it is flashing one second and stops. Voltage at the connector under the GPS 100...

Hello everybody, Sunny winter in the Canarias but busy as well... Pictures of my last install ( following clever advice from Steve d'Antonio published in Passagemaker): a centrifugal separator GEA Westfalia OTC 2 with the pump ( 1000L /hour) and the three phases electric box in addition of the...

Hello Captains and Admirals! Reading one more time the excellent book " Voyaging under power", I wonder if some of you have had tried to test sails like thoses installed on TEKA III( picture in the book page 46 of fourth edition)? I mean taking advantage of central mast and paravanes...

Hi Captains and Admirals, I wonder why I do not see weed hatch installed on sea going trawlers like the so incredible narrow boats cruising on Canals in UK. The system gives oppotunity to clean the propeller when foulded or engaged with debris from inside the lazaret, cockpit or locker. Of...

Hi, I am on the way to finish my paravane project (as a back up system) and will be happy to share some pictures very soon showing my folding arms design alongside wheel house roof instead of vertical arms. May I ask to forumites from Oz and areas to help me understanding the system used in...

Hi! Bonjour à tous, First of all, thanks to all boaters and trawler owners who are posting pics, drawings, comments and explanations concerning this very crucial subject on passagemaker trawlers: the paravane design as unique system for stbailization underway or as a back up for long range...

Hi, Thank you so much for your warm welcome and very happy to join the communauty, with apologizes concerning my broken american english... We are owner of North Sea Trawler 57' OC, a Dutch steel built passagemaker and trying to prepare the dream of our boating life ( more than 30 years in...