Y'all are eating very well!
The drinking isn't bad either - me and the Captain are becoming best friends!
I don't care much for Georgetown but really enjoy the out island regatta. A drunk fest like spring break.
No, I used them on the four hour run to Georgetown with no issues. The fluid is near full. I do have a squeak at the starboard stabilizer head where I think the ram is rubbing. I lock it when at anchor and inside now.
Looking at the forecast for the next two weeks I will probably not need them at all, but may on the trip back through Providence, West End and the stream.
Will be keeping an eye on them.
The stabilizer fluid is cooled by either an electric raw water pump or a raw water tap off one of your engines.
If they over heated they were not getting the proper amount of cooling water. Or the raw water going to them off an engine is to hot to cool them properly under higher loads/use.
They should not over heat no matter how hard they are working.
Of course it could be the heat exchanger for them needs to be cleaned out.
Thanks. My brother and SIL are arriving early this afternoon. We was the engineering CPO on nuclear sub's. I have already told him that he needs to look at my MSDs, so I will add the stabilizers cooling system!
Though he already told me he wasn't here to work, so maybe it will have to wait until I get back!
Yeah, that's going to work.
It's simple, you just withhold food and alcohol till the jobs done.