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As with most things - experience matters. Our boat was painted with Awlgrip and I repainted the transom when the name was changed. I used a Preval sprayer and practiced on the side of a trash dumpster. When I did the boat, it took four tries until I got a finish that was to my wife's...

Hello, I am trying to help a buddy boat with their Westerbeke and I have run out of my limited knowledge. They have a 12.5k Westerbeke that will start and run as long as the pre-heat switch is held on. The owner has replaced two pre-heat switches (remote and main panel) The main...

We lived aboard for 11+ years and have a stacked Kenmore washer/dryer. My wife did 99.9% of our laundry aboard...a handful of times she used marina laundry for blankets of something. The washer/dryer was harder to replace on board - getting it to fit down the hallway and into the space than...

I swore I would not own a boat that I could not move along the side decks from bow to stern...then I spent a week on a Great Harbour 37. We loved the layout of the boat, the 16' beam made for a spacious salon. And a few years later, we bought our Great Harbour GH47. To be fair the pilothouse...

Pilothouse is for us The pilothouse was one of the main features that sold us on our boat. 90% we run with the doors open, sometimes the front window up. The visibility is great (forward), accessibility to the line handling is right out the door, and all of the helm's instrumentation is at...

We have the older Eartech (we hated) and the Sena SPH10s which we love. The behind the head band makes them stay put and easy to use. The pairing is down to memory now. I put mine on, power up, press Sync and my wife does the rest with hers while I handle the boat. When the Senas are not on...

I have a Si-Tex transceiver and like having send/receive AIS. If I was shopping for a new unit I would be looking for the newer B+ units.

Peter, About 30 minutes north of you is Depco Pumps. www.depco.com They are an expert in marine pumps and are very helpful to discuss the pros/cons of various pumps. My washdown pump is much bigger than my freshwater pump because it has to push water to the bow and with 15' of head...

When we bought Seven Tenths, she had a brass oil lantern hanging above the galley table. She who must be obeyed, wanted the stain glass light from the house hung above the table so the oil lantern was hung on a hook in the cockpit. On an exciting run down the Chesapeake Bay, the oil lantern...

Wet Exhaust Temperature Alarm by Borel Manufacturing Inc.

I am shocked the instrument is not in Clemson colors

Do you have a vacuume switch? If so, can you adjust it?

I did a similar setup with two Lenovo "Tiny" computers. I had access to Cisco switches and routers so I setup a switch with VLANs. The radar (for me is Simard) floods the LAN so it is on it's VLAN. I found this not as useful as I wished so direct connected it to the Simrad Chartplotter. My...

Timb7734, Which hull did you own? I took the railing off mine when I had it cut down to clear the bridges. I put it back on at the height of the KVH TracVision antenna. We met you at Drummond Island when we were on the Loop in 2016.

Pirate Dan, A GH47 could get down to 15'1" with the TV antenna and railing removed. The davit will then be the highest point.

I put a Maretron TMP100 temperature monitor module in the boat and put a sensor in the engine room, pilot house, master berth, saloon, forward bilge, outside in cockpit. I can view it on the N2K View software and one the data bars on my Simrad plotter. When cruising the engine room temp is...

We Looped in 2016 in our boat - a 47' trawler with 16' beam, and 3' draft. We did not have issues with the beam and really enjoyed the shallow draft, allowing us to anchor cruise in areas that concerned others. The air draft is a concern for many of the 45+' boats but we only need 16.6 feet...

NWBoater, I believe there are only three boats west of the Mississippi - one GH37 in Hawaii, one GH37 near Seattle and one N37 in Texas.

My bow has a Fortress FX-55 on the port side of my bow pulpit - which has the roller out the furthest. Then I have a Rocna 40 on the starboard side of the bow pulpit that has a slot in the pulpit and the Rocna shaft fits up the slot and over the roller. I wanted to swap the placement but...

I installed micro switches from Rockler on each of our galley cabinet doors with LED lights under each shelf. this is the switch I used https://www.rockler.com/low-profile-micro-switch

I carry a stern anchor (Danforth) with 40' of chain and 3/4" rope. I have used it a few times but try to avoid because I do not have a windlass on the stern. When I have used stern anchor, I have had trouble retrieving it. Once set and dug in from any beam seas or wind, buries the anchor. I...

I have several cameras looking aft. I have a Lorax CCTV camera on my mast pointed aft that is wired to my MFD. One corner of my starboard MFD is the camera, always on. I love it as a rear-view. I have a second camera mounted under my pilothouse lip pointed aft for when the mast is down...

Cliff, I have both. I have a Xintex Carbon Monoxide next to my bed, a different marine Carbon Monoxide in the salon, and then household units elsewhere. The Xintex unit has not signaled for CO detection but it has alarmed for low and high battery.

We have two standard furniture store queen size mattresses. One came out of our guest room in the house when we moved aboard. I don't see any reason you need anything special unless you like some of the new foam or air mattresses.

Many tugs in the Chesapeake use a hawser that is made up with blue floating synthetic line. The hawsers are 3-5" in diameter. Many years ago, a sport fish out of Ocean City, MD ran over a floating line which wrapped around his running gear, and when it tightened, it pulled the shafts together...