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Great, thank you all. I'll try Crusiersforum as well.

Sure thing. Here's a link to the website which shows the sensor: https://www.sofarocean.com/products/spotter The sensors will be part of a grid of free-drifting real-time wave-current-wind observations systems in the Pacific, which will look at new assimilation strategies for global ocean...

Hi all, This is a bit of an unusual request - I'm looking to deploy a few scientific sensors in the mid-Pacific between now and March, 2020. These floating buoys will be part of a research project to measure ocean waves, wind and currents in the open ocean, with the goal of using the data to...

Thanks for all the comments. My current leading theory is similar to yours @Lepke- there is a fairly large opening in this compartment that leads down to the bilge. My thought is that maybe the water in the bilge is evaporating during the warm part of the day, getting trapped in this area, and...

Note: Picture 2 is upside down. Not sure how that happened.

This might be an unsolvable question, but figured I would try you guys here just in case your collective genius can find something that I'm missing. The problem: The floorboards underneath one of the heads in my 1986 Nova Sundeck continuously seem to be getting wet. Not a lot, but definitely...

TF comes through again. Thanks all for the advice. I'm pretty sure its not a veneer - there are inspection hatches which seem to indicate that its wood planks. I'll post some pictures tomorrow, when its light out. My tentative plan is to use a DA sander with 100 or 120 to remove the old finish...

Hi all, I have teak (?) floors inside my 36' Nova Sundeck that have seen better days. I'm hoping to tackle refinishing them sometime within the next few weeks, but I'm curious if there are any special considerations to doing this. My main hangup is that the floors look like they have some type...

I also have some extra teak oil currently sitting in a plastic tupperware and a few old rags lying around, so will be getting rid of those immediately...

Thanks all, sounds like preferences vary. The prior owner left me with a can of teak oil, so I'm assuming that's what he used on the wood before me. I don't mind the color of what's there now, just want to keep it from drying and splitting any more than it already is. Hopefully a fresh coat of...

Hi all, Hopefully an easy question on the proper way to care for interior teak. I have a mostly all-wood interior in my 1986 36' trawler, and some panels are starting to look like theyre drying out and cracking. The interior is a mix of what looks to be solid panels, and pieces covered with a...

Lots of good tips, thank you all. We live aboard and I store the outboard up in the flybridge (had to take the davits off to pass the measurement when we got our slip) so its tough to get at the engine or do any real work on it from here. Im hoping to nail down some garage space soon though so...

Thanks Marin. You're probably right about the gummed up carb. Sounds like it's going to need a trip to the mechanic... something I was hoping to avoid. Good 'lesson learned' though, shouldn't have let the gas sit so long.

Hey TF, Another question to run by the collective genius of this forum. I have an older dinghy with a 9hp 4 stroke motor. Both came with the boat when I bought it last year. The dinghy had been sitting for a while, so the girlfriend and I took it out for a spin late one night to get the fluids...

Thanks FF. The lights, FW pump, and electric head all run off the 12v system. The galley has 4 light fixtures with two 12 watt bulbs in each, so I think the galley lights alone pull around 8amps, which is more than my 3 channel 5A battery charger can keep up with. Switching to LEDs has helped...

Agreed, I think a larger charger would make a world of difference. Unfortunately its not in the budget right now though, my girlfriend and I are both grad students and live aboard to (theoretically) save some money. We might be moving out of state in 6 months or so though and would have to sell...

Thanks guys, appreciate the quick response. Sounds like what I had assumed, that the batteries (and better battery maintenance) should fix most of the issue with the water pump. Just to clarify, the pump will stop working even with the tap fully open - the tap will be fully open with no water...

Hi All, Hoping to get some sage wisdom from the experienced boaters on here. I have a whale water pump system on my boat with an accumulator tank. I don't know much about it, but I know that the pump kicks on when it senses the water is low to top up the accumulator tank. Recently, we have...

Just thought I would post a quick update to this. I ended up replacing mostly all of the cabin lights with LEDs, and haven't haven't had an issue since (thanks for the suggestion BruceK). My batteries will probably need replacing in the near future, but this seems to have bought me some extra...

Hi All, I'm hoping for some advice on where to track down a specifically sized replacement cap for a freshwater deck fill. In a ill conceived attempt at filling my freshwater tank late at night and after a few beers, I managed to lose my cap into the harbor below. I tried buying a replacement...

Thanks for all the sage advice. We liveaboard and the rails see a lot of abuse from sand, sun, dog and visitors, so something easy/durable sounds like the way to go. I'll probably grab my heat gun and scrape off what's there, then apply some CPES followed by Bristol or Cetol. If I was smart...

Hi TW, Another question for the wisdom of the group here. I have some teak rails that are starting to show serious abuse (see pictures below). I'm not sure if they're sealed with varnish or cetol, and am wondering how best to go about repairing this. My initial thought was to get some 120 or...

Thanks all, vey helpful tips all around. I'll check the water levels today, and if that fails, then I'll swap out for some new batteries and a larger charger. Drawing more amps than the charger can put back in makes sense - we use 110v for most things (fridge, floor heater, anything in an...

Thanks for the response. I'm not sure but would assume they're lead acid, I'll take some pictures when I get home tonight. Haven't added any water, I'm new to boating and just starting to figure out how much stuff I know nothing about, but need to start learning.

Hi all, I'm having an electrical issue that I'm trying to sort out and could use a sanity check. My boat has five batteries total, 2 are wired up to be the 'house' bank, two are banked as starter batteries for the main engines, and the last one starts the generator. There's no selector switch...