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You could check out boatdiesel.com, pay 25 bucks for an annual fee, and get all the info regarding diesels in boats for many years in the past. A very cheap source for information

Go to Yachtworld.com This is the multiple listing service for boats for sale throughout the world. Using the advanced search you can narrow down the boat, length, area, price etc etc

We have had Weaver Snap, Seawise and a crane. A couple of problems with the Weaver and Seawise is that you cannot see out the back of the boat when the boat is up. Additionally, the Weavers would be hard to unhook if the boat was fully loaded, ie the buoyancy of the tender pushed up on the...

Not sure who you were referring to, but velocity is not speed, speed is a component of velocity. I doubt any CG would ask for your velocity On the other hand, they might ask for your speed and heading, which is velocity We were in Canadian Waters and our course could take us in front of or...

Your definition of velocity is incorrect Velocity is a speed and a direction If your boat is doing 10 mph, this is your boats speed If your boat is doing 10 mph, NORTH, then the boats velocity would be stated as 10 mph north. Therefore your comment " a knot is a measure of velocity" is...

There seems to be a little confusion about the W in some of the posts The W stands for Winter, not weight. A multigrade oil is measured at two different temperature points, one for Summer and one for Winter They take a burette, a long glass tube with a petcock(valve) on the bottom and the...

ADK1 We have owned ocean boats since 1981 with single gas, twin gas and twin diesel Certainly a single diesel is most economical in most situations but our history is as follows Single gas- carburetor problem- tow home - seized up the clutch on a leg- tow home Twin...

Thanks for the info Doug

Dougcole, are you still around, I read your old thread and wanted to get an idea for the fuel consumption as we are looking at a 40 twin, Yan, 260 and the broker cannot provide the info. I am hoping for a reasonable cruise speed, not 8 knots, maybe 12 and wonder if you had a fuel curve Thanks

And hence the term, log book or captains log