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I am having a similar problem. Went to start my Yanmar 4LH-HTE today and there was just a very loud spinning sound similar to a vacuum. From reading here it seems like the starter is spinning but not engaging the flywheel. Here are pics and video. Help appreciated. I’ve read it could be the...

Very nice.

Very nice. Perhaps I'll give them a try for a quick fix before I pay the piper for my enclosure or sewing it up myself...

What's the name of those? How do you rig up the bungee with those? Looks like something like this...

GoneF, Thanks for the clarification. Great work for a quick fix! I'm going to have to do something of the sort...

GoneF, Yes, I’d like to enclose the cockpit to the existing zippers on the Bimini and snaps on the port, transom, and starboard sides. Yes, a big project if I undertake myself… What do you mean by knocking down the Bimini and building covers for the 4 sides? I can’t picture what you mean by...

I need to do something like this! Got my boat this last Summer and it was previously kept under covered moorage. She’s got an aft cockpit Bimini cover but open on three sides on the back. The local place roughly quoted $5k-$6500 for the sides and can’t get to it until March! Yikes and Yikes...

Thanks, Wade. I do plan on and look forward to using it on some of those clear streaks that we have in the Winter season. I agree those are some of the most beautiful!

Thanks Pete, and all. I don't plan to actually "winterize" for the same reason you mention. Just put that in my post because the nature of winter planning - though perhaps I should be more proper with my terms! I do like the idea of engine block heaters as something that heats the inside of...

I have a 32' Twin Screw Diesel Engine Bayliner 3270 and I'd like to get set up for my first Winter in the PNW on the docks. I'd like a solution to keep the engine room and cabin in good shape while the temps cool down. For the engine room I'm leaning towards either two 300w Xtreme Heaters or...

I should've mentioned - on the conservative end of fuel use - if traveling at 8 knots using 5 gph you'd get a distance of 62.5 nautical miles (8 knots per hr / 5 GPH = 1.6 miles per gallon). If two 50 gallon tanks then an ambitious range is 160 NM...but then again, that's ambitious and I'm...

Thanks all for the replies and welcomes. A little more about the boat - it's a Robert's built in 1970 and the hull supposedly capable of Bristol Bay. The original owner was meticulous about it until he had to sell it in 2011 due to his advanced age and dementia. The owner of the last 10 years...

Thoughts or experiences with making treks from Anacortes to places like the Desolation Sound, Inside Passage to SE Alaska, or circumnavigating Vancouver Island with a gasoline engine? More specifically for reference a 32 foot Fiberglass, semi-displacement hulled, single-screwed gasoline engine...