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Yes, the early 3126's had major aftercooler leaking sea water into the internals problems due to dissimilar metals expansion/contraction/corrosion issues. Many revisions have been done over the years to improve the sealing. Be sure you get a competent Cat rep to survey and make sure you have a...

Here in Ft Lauderdale, my experience is that units will work fine until water temp hits high 80's to low 90's. By mid 90's water temp, when you really need A/C, efficiency goes way down. And before anyone makes note of 90+ degree water temp, yes it does happen, and happen regularly during...

Be VERY CAREFUL mounting hardware to any of the newer refer's. Almost all units now have freon grid lines running just under the sheet metal. I've personally seen multiple, brand new, never used refers destroyed when a worker drilled into the sheet metal to attach some closure unit and punctured...

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Normally, on a standard pleated filter, flow is out to in. One special type of filters we use on our watermakers is a "bag" filter, and flow is in to out, so the bag catches the debris. We like this type for high turnover filters because they can store flat in a much smaller space.

Try K2r spot remover, we use it all the time.

I've used Blackstone for the past 10-12 years, really like the personal attention and comments on each sample.

See if I can get these pics to load Two of my boats docked in same spot, Portofino, It In the lower fore ground is a 120' I built and was engineer on at the time. You can see the small boat anchorage he backed into. If you ran an anchor chain directly off my bow it would lead to the same spot...

I've been in that harbor many times. Knowing the layout it's pretty obvious his stbd anchor was in amongst the right side anchorage and he worked his nose in to pick it up, for unknown reason his stern swung to far to port across the channel, very possible he did have a mechanical on controls or...

Detroit doesn't make a 6BT-5.9 engine.. on the other hand.. Cummins does make a 6BT-5.9 engine.. and it can be a very good engine...depending on the HP rating and previous maintenance.

Maybe he meant $30.00 and just misplaced the decimal point, lol.

The boat my boss just sold had 2 gens, powered by Cummins 6BT's, basically a marinized version of a Dodge Ram truck engine. I do oil changes at 250 hrs, injectors anywhere from 1200-1500 hrs depending on our travel schedule. The gens were still running almost trouble free with 14,000 hours...

Never heard it called a floater. Guys I worked with, for morning "brekkie" would peel the top back on a vendor food truck meat pie, fill it with peas and ketchup, called it "meat pie with mushy peas and red sauce". Then after work it was down to the club for shots of Bundy and stubbies of XXXX

I lived in Brisbane for three years in late 80's early 90's, yeah had quite a few funny stories/situations, lol.

One thing I've noticed that no one has mentioned, the need for two anchors for solid stern to or Med mooring. When ever we stern to moor (a lot) it's standard practice to climb upwind, drop the first hook, back and set, let the bow fall off the wind and drop the second hook, back into the dock...

I'm sure boat builders, as in anything, want to keep costs manageable. So the usual plan would be to furnish an "adequate" anchor as standard, anything else would be an upgrade requested by the buyer. I saw this many times in many parts of a vessel when I was building new boats. Basics standard...

Well that looks like a typical down island cluster f**k.

I can see where they put a lot of time and money into it, but NOT my style.

This video was also shot in the same marina, I was a couple boats away from where this was shot, on the right. Note the rock lining of the inner sea wall, then at about the 3 min mark you can see the wall breaking up and the stones being washed into the inner hrbr. Another vid, same marina...

Damn, I lived in that marina for three years. Thats the "old port" on the western side, the new marina is just to the east.

I'd never cut into a perfectly good hull to add UW lights. If I was shopping for a boat that had UW lights cut into the hull I'd probably pass on the buy, or at least discount the price for what it's going to cost to remove them and re-seal the hull and insure no moisture ingress, especially a...

There is an operational sequence that dictates which lever is master and which is slave for the auto sync mode. You may inadvertently be changing between the master/slave/manual control/auto-sync mode. It's all spelled out in the oper manual, and there are even plastic card cheat sheets available.

The 6bt's I had used a single zinc in the reverse flow end, mounted in the bottom pointing up. I think it was a std 3/4" pipe plug but I did have to trim about 3/8-1/2" off the length of a std zinc or they would bottom out on the end cap center bolt. And yes, you should check for the dowel pin...

I've used a system like that a lot. Normally use my pump to discharge downward ovbd. but also have the option of pumping up thru the deck fitting. We use the deck fitting a lot to pump into a shoreside tank when in service shipyards, especially drydock. I had a third option of a direct tank...

I did quite a few crossings on commercial ships years ago, but I was usually down "in the hole" engineering crew. Since mid 80's have done way to many trips to count as MegaYacht engineer, and about half the time also do a wheelhouse watch. Usually the 4-8 watch has the good sunrise/sunset...