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I think it was this stuff. The stainless hose can be crushed on tight with a good hose clamp. The sealant is just to make sure that it seals good. A muffler makes the exhaust very quiet even for the boats next to you. I have scrap pieces of two different SS exhaust pipes from diesel heaters...

The muffler that came with your heater should not be used if inside the cabin. It is for mounting outside under a vehicle. I would also be wary of the ones that Lepke shows. The only way there would be a need for drain holes in the muffler casing is if the water vapor in the exhaust was...

Your hull ID number or other documentation might begin with letters that can be a clue as to the builder who finished the hull. My similar hull design is documented as built by Tung Hwa (now the builder of Fleming Yachts), although the hull I.D. number starts LHC, indicating that the Lien Hwa...

As repeatedly noted above, AP gives the false sense that one is paying closer attention to navigation hazards. In theory, it could allow for increased situational awareness, but there is no evidence, even anecdotel, that this is true universally. It is much like claiming that cruise control on...

It looks like Navimag isn't going to work for us. The gentleman at the local office kept telling us every day that it would be tomorrow, but we have our tablet that has Windy, Navionics, Vessel Finder, etc. We could see that the boat (the Esperanza) has been laid to in a protected anchorage...

Nick F, Just finished reading Wager when we were in Ushuaia. Scary, but not as scary as today's Windy.com report for next Tuesday at Cape Raper (where Capt. Cheat and survivors were forced back three times until they portaged around behind). Forecast is for 21 foot waves on an 11 second...

There is also an ingenious induction deep frying pot. I can't link to it right now, but if you Google "24cm Japanese Deep Frying Pot Oil" you should see it. We try to avoid frying onboard, but this would cut down on some of the mess.

Guess where I am. The weather was nice enough that we got ashore and hiked to the hilltop monument (dedicated to the 10,000 sailors who lost their lives trying to get around Cape Horn). The first photo is taken from the lighthouse. I guess I was one of the lucky ones. We are presently ashore...

This interlocutory appeal was only about a choice of law issue in an insurance contract for a case that has yet to go to trial. Great Lakes wants FL law. The plaintiff wants PA law. The plaintiff's argument was that public policy can and should override contractual choice of law (i.e., that...

It is steel perf plate. You get to choose the hole size and placement. About $8 for a square foot. A couple things keep coming up about induction. Yes, you need ferric metal in order to get hot. But cookware manufacturers are coming up with some new ideas. They now have aluminum pans that...

Here's my experience doing a solo examination of my damper plate using a block and tackle with some wood scraps. I now carry everything needed on board. https://www.trawlerforum.com/forums/s32/my-onboard-lehman-damper-plate-repair-kit-65045.html

My wind screen had also faded to a weird pink. Lots of scratches and crazing, but no breaks. I went to my local TAP plastics and looked at what they had. They stocked a light bronze transparent product that was just what I wanted. My windscreen (on a 30' trawler) would just barely fit...

Just the system I need for my FLA batteries. Fill with distilled water. Put the water jug temporarily higher than the batteries. Use a push button valve instead of a gate valve. Squirt, squirt, squirt and stow the jug. I bought one of the automatic battery fill pitchers, but haven't been...

Many people also know that there is no reason to drill a hole in a modern thermostat. It can speed up filling the coolant, but the downside is that the engine takes longer to heat up. Not good for diesels. Robertshaw thermostats have a tiny leakage port in them that most don't see. You will...

Just got some kind of blurb today showing me some Wirefy "Solder Seal" connectors. No need to crimp and you end up with a waterproof shrink solder connection. And a video showed that one can shrink/solder using just a Bic lighter. Dang. Gotta get me some. So what do you think is underneath...

I always blame this on our much greater familiarity with driving street vehicles. We never have to slowly crab walk the car into a parking spot while factoring in the wind direction. Everybody has seen the captain that gets into a situation where he/she needs to hit the brakes. I haven't seen...

And that is a big IF. Great Lakes insurance company had a contract clause that stated Florida law applied, to the extent that federal maritime law did not, although the boat and owner are in PA. The insurance company "planned to argue" that under Florida law the out-of-date fire extinguishers...

In the interest of science, I bought a little stand alone amp meter that keeps a running total. Since my induction stovetop runs off its own separate battery, it was simple to connect it and make coffee a couple different ways. Turns out that cold brew (4 cups) does use slightly less amperage...

I have a new undercounter 12V GE fridge. 9 amp startup, 3 amp running, but there are some weird things about it. I put a Bluetooth recording thermometer in it and was surprised at the temp swing. It only comes on a couple times a day according to the thermometer (when we aren't at the boat)...

Yep. The Port Orchard Yacht Club just got a proposal from the State of Washington that the boat houses over State property should have more translucent panels on the roof and the inside decking around the boat should be grating, not planks (to allow more light to penetrate to the sea floor).

It looks like a DIY kitchen strainer used to keep hair, etc., out of the pump. If it were my project, I'd switch to polyester batting. It may require a sewing machine to make a polyester batting "sock" to fit over the inlet. The only difficulty would be to ensure that the filter sock not lay...

I recognize some of those "deficiencies." When checking my tranny flex plate, I noticed that my bell housing was missing a bolt. Turns out somewhere in the boat's past somebody had stripped out the threads. I made a trip to the hardware store and bought a bolt 1/2" longer than the others...

I can hardly believe what I'm reading. Using an autopilot in rough weather because it outperforms hand steering??? Maybe I need to upgrade my Simrad 26/27. It's 20 years old and doesn't have artificial intelligence. In more than 2 foot following seas, it seems to have very little...

I also saw some of those YouTube videos on trying to scavenge heat from the exhaust. One if the best, I thought, was to route the exhaust through a vintage cast iron radiator. Not a good fit for my engine room, but an old cast iron radiator seems almost purpose built for this. One of the...

It sounds like UK custom inspected a shipment of Vevor heaters and made the decision on Vevor. I don't know if they were aware of thousands of identical units coming in under other brand names. I'm sure they are now. We also turn ours off at night and enjoy the toastiness of a down comforter...