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Books John Would love to give your books a new home! :thumb:We are preparing to cruise the Bahamas so both would be much appreciated......and passed along once read. Just Let me know what the postage is to NH 03838. Best Regards and Happy Thanksgiving Mark

I Pad Pro Visibility Happy Thanksgiving All Question for anyone who has purchased the Pro. How do you find the display in bright light?. I have both the Ipad and also the Ipad Mini both with Navionics, I purchased the Ipad mini specifically for Nav as the screen, though smaller, is much...

Got a spare birth? I'm not any trouble! Normally enjoy winter with all the snowmobiling and skiing but this year its been crazy low temps with inches of Ice rain, I have been up here 16 years and came from the Med. Never seen anything like it. Today there were images of the Hudson freezing up...

I got so sick of sitting under the Polar Vortex here in NH today and normally my many miles of snowmobiling distract me from thinking about the boat until it gets time to pull the wrap. But with all the snowmobile trails being closed right now I went to the marina and cut into the wrap and took...

Now there's an idea!!! What about a soundproof...ish enclosure. cant see any problems with motor overheating and easy fab ? Bit like the genny. Then if its rubber mounted we should be minimum decibels. Only trouble for me is that if I cant hear something operate I don't know if its working. Last...

Hi Hollywood. Awesome sound effects Captain! Thanks. I tried repeating them to the admiral but she threw something heavy at me!...again. Many thanks for the input - we only have the one head on board and I think we will get it in working order but like you say you cant stop people throwing...

Also I am going to mount on Silent blocks to try and reduce vibration and noise factor. Hollywood is doing an excellent impression of a a VG I can almost hear it Ha!

I have a great spot in the engine room with stacks of room to work but I thought of connecting it with unions so I can remove the whole thing for service/unblocking cleaning etc. As I mentioned I have replaced all of the old Sani hose with Sched 40 PVC which has worked excellent and if I mount...

Holywood Are the VG s really loud when pumping? Is it the pump causing the vacuum or the pumping to the holding tank...probably both eh? I Thought the latest VG4 was supposed to be quite? We will soon find out but as you suggest we can always shut em down with the breaker. Maybe should have...

Good Point Thanks! I will use the breaker that already exists for the Jabsco. ( The new VG draws less amperage too) Can anything be louder than that Jabsco when one of the Kids uses the head at 2am in the morning - it backs right onto our berth!

That very reassuring to hear. Sounds like the system was well installed and maintained. Have ordered everything today so hopefully i can do as good a job on installing. Thank you very much for your input. Mark

I hear you. I don't think Ill be throwing the old unit away for a while just in case! Thanks for the advice. Mark

That's a definite. I thought that by assembling the kit myself to make the working unit would give me a good initial insight into the mechanics of the system and then doing the install always teaches us a thing or two and uncovers something else no doubt! I am also fortunate being an engineer...

Thanks Bob That's good to hear. Mounting the VG in the engine room would definitely increase the volume that is under vacuum giving more potential to remove waste at the Head end. I just confirmed with one of the reps that this would work well in our application so Engine room it will be. Now...

Kevin Do you have the older model VF - I was under the impression that the later units are very quite? I am seriously thinking that it would be best to locate in the engine room - plenty of space-ease of maintenance and then no noise factor. But you are right because now I would have the head...

FF Thank you for your suggestion. Yes considered that too but we have a good friend who has done the same install on a similar boat and it has worked very well - Admiral very impressed - hence orders from above ! I think the flick of a switch/pressing of a foot pedal simplicity is the obvious...

Vacuflush conversion Thanks WesK Yes I looked at that option but I can do the vacuflush very inexpensively and have 2 good locations for the VG4 at either end. Marinediscounters are doing a VG4 kit which is basically all the parts for the VG4 that you then put together yourself but at half the...

Under pressure from the Admiral....I am planning to convert the existing electric jabsco head to a vacuflush system using the Vacuflush VG4 vacuum generator and the existing 40 gallon holding tank. I will also need to change the head. Last year I removed all the sanitation hoses due to...