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When reading this thread, I kept thinking "Tomcat, Tomcat." You got there. Go to the C-Brats website with any additional questions. Lots of knowledge. Little bickering. Sometimes (rare) a "for sale" posting. Mark

My thru-hull transducer is dead. It is an older Airmar bronze with a fairing and is connected to a Garmin GPSmap. That connection requires a Garmin specific interface. Speed through water and temperature had never worked and the depth was only reliable under 35', spotty up to 85' unless going...

I try not to follow the posts on newer, more expensive boats. Tends to get me in trouble. But the pictures of these makes me think of the Anti-Roll Tank concept again. The "tuning" of the box-like tank generally requires baffles because water transfers too fast from side to side. Another...

My multimeter didn't read the wire as 12V because my buzzer behind the upper helm was so corroded that there was no voltage going through. I cleaned it up and I now get 12V at the normally open coolant sensor. When it closes, the circuit is made and the buzzer (if working) goes off. What I...

That is what I've started doing. I'm sure there is some algorithm that decides what is a wind speed and what is a gust. Also when do the gusts become frequent enough to be the wind speed? If the forecast is 5 to 7, but the gust is 20 to 25, I'm not doing the crossing.

Forgot the second picture. The wire has been disconnected from the sensor and some of the plastic wrapping peeled back.

I'm trying to troubleshoot why my overtemp idiot buzzer isn't working. Best I can tell from my investigation to date is that the ignition circuit breaker energizes the oil pressure buzzer (normally closed and open with pressure to stop the buzzer) and the overtemp buzzer (normally open but...

I saw an interesting blurb on the internet where a person was rinsing their Yamaha outboard using hot tap water. They claimed it worked better than salt away. I have a hot water spigot in my cockpit. When we get back to the marina, we always have 6 gallons of hot water just sitting in the tank...

Mine is original and not hinged. Air draft is 16.5 feet. Just found a good deal on a boat house with a 15.5 foot opening, so there is may be a DIY tabernacle mast project in my future (which would be 14' air draft). I don't use it for lifting. It's for radar, anchor light, deck lights, and...

My decibel app has a frequency graph. Another nice free app is a vibration meter. Pick a spot on your helm where your phone tucks in nice. Record the XYZ numbers at your cruising speed in your log. Was that clunk you heard the prop hitting a log? Put your phone back in the same spot and...

My chain locker is designed so that it drains into the bilge. A really bad design given the amount of sand and mud that usually comes up with the anchor rode. A long deck brush helps. We can squirt it with our precious fresh water. The real solution is a chain locker with a substantial...

That's what I started out with. 78db at idle wasn't good enough. I don't really care what the noise level is at idle. But underway, I want to just talk softly. I started out with the "big sheet" idea, thinking that mass loaded vinyl covering the floor and inside the cabinetry would do the...

I just bought one and had sufficient room to install. As I suspected, the "sprocket" is stamped stainless sheet metal, meaning that it has sharp feeling 90 degree edges instead of a sharpened knife edge. A few minutes with the chain saw file and it is actually sharp enough to draw blood during...

After going to all the trouble of removing my door, I opted not to try to fix/replace the rollers. I went with some generic hard plastic, which isn't particularly slippery. Instead, I occasionally use a sail slug lubricant. It is actually an improvement as the door doesn't slide open/close in...

With no freezer onboard, the new rule gives rise to a "fillet and release" fishery. Two servings for the boat, the rest for the crabs. Repeat the following day. Obviously the rule is a counter-productive regulation. I worked a ship with a Norwegian engineer who had fished halibut with his...

Here's a bottom painting question. I don't think I've ever seen bottom paint on a stainless shaft. Why not? I'm out of the water right now and just painted my rudder (cast bronze with a SS rudder shaft). The paint was almost completely gone off of the rudder. There were "barnacle rings"...

Move your shore side hobbies aboard, if possible. If your primary shore side activity was picking up dog poop and then mowing the lawn, that doesn't work on a boat (well, some retain a dog). Many other hobbies also don't fit on a boat, so your choices are 1) row ashore and offer to mow a lawn...

The whirly-pop is also available in stainless steel for induction burners. If the pot's only use was as a popcorn maker, it probably wouldn't make it aboard our boat with limited storage. But the base is just the right size pot for boiling water for pasta, steaming clams, or a stew. A regular...

My windscreen had faded to a pinkish color and crazing and scratched. I took it off and found that it could fit crosswise on a 4x8 foot piece of plastic. (It is actually taken off in my avatar). Larger boats sometimes have two or three pieces, probably because of the huge jump in cost to...

The Camplux propane shower seems like a really complex, expensive and dangerous solution to a little problem. Just use your tank water heater or even your stove top to heat a gallon of water. Put it in a bucket on the back deck or pour it into the sink in the head and add 1/2 gallon of cold...

If knowledge was a prerequisite of posting on Trawler Forum, there would be no threads longer than 14 posts.:)

And keep a copy with your changes in the ship's log or wherever you keep engine alternator information. I would not remember my settings the next day, so this information is handy for any future changes/troubleshooting.

We also use a single countertop induction burner outside. Perfect for boiling crab, shrimp, etc. Too much moisture for inside. Doesn't matter how windy it is on the back deck. An induction stovetop will heat a wok, but only the flat bottom and about 3/4 inch up the side. So not quite like a...

Somebody above said that there might be a problem 1) running the microwave at the same time as the induction burner, 2) running the toaster at the same time, 3) running the air conditioner at the same time. The generator might not keep up. I replaced my propane with induction at the same time...