Recent content by Pat O'Connell

I rebuilt a pump maybe 25 years ago and it installed and tested just fine this Spring. Just started weeping a little bit of oil last week. Maybe a drop every hour. Two real good mechanics said not to worry about it until fall haul. Just keep a eye on it. We are presuming it is a bad seal or...

Nicro Vents Installed (2) Nicro SS (4) inch Vents with screens in 1982. Have had to replace (1). Batterys get replaced every other year. Sailing season is only (4) months. Vents are mounted port and starboard of the mast. One vent is in the head (exhaust) and very valuable. We have never...

E 28+ Lobster Fishing Here is how we fish for Maine Lobster on our E28+. 25 years ago we were out of fresh food and cruising up a Maine bay with no stores around. Daughter and wife hungry so we sailed up next to a bayman hauling his traps. "Could you sell us a couple of lobsters we are...

Fishing Ohh. Fresh, baked stuffed bluefish on the stern grill. Great memories. Fresh salmon on the grill I envy envy envy. :)

Sailboat Fishing Hi Christian Charter boat captain that we go with occasionally is really good. He says to catch fish: You have to 1. Be in the right place 2. Be at the right speed 3. Have the right bait 4. Bait at the right depth Much easier to do with a powerboat. We used to cruise to...

Hats Hi Don Thanks for doing this hat program. We are all set. Bought some real nice hats graciously co-ordinated by Morgan years ago and we still have them. They wash up like new. Best Regards Pat 1981 E28+ Universal 5411

Hi Respected Owners We installed a Universal 5411 Fresh Water Conversion Kit in 1981. It has a Sherwood Pump on it and I would like to replace it this Spring. The pump is mounted on the back of the engine on the power takeoff on the back side of the salt water pump location. Very very...

Bronze fittings Hi Respected Sailors Sorry. Need to clarify earlier post where I said that we used all brass when we plumbed our heat exchanger and pump. I looked at my prior heat exchanger and pump in the basement. Fresh water fittings are all brass! Salt water fittings are bronze. I...

As is where is I agree with Tenders (again.) I bet all those attorneys we see on TV would not agree.

Brass Heat Exchanger Elbows We used brass elbows 35 years ago on the strainer, heatexchanger and raw water pump. My bad but they still seem to be OK. You all reminded me to check them this spring. We will give them a good look when the cover comes off the boat in April. Pat 1981...

Keel Issues Hi Respected Sailors Sorry to hear about your keel issues, I guess I lucked out. No problems at all since that shark bite in the keel. Bilge always dry as a bone. Sort of surprising since we have cold winters with (-20) from time to time. Looking out the office window as I...

Hi NQuigley Our E28+ has a encapsulated keel and thats the way it works. Many many years ago I hammered a Maine ledge that put a shark bite in the leading edge of the keel. Water appeared in the bilge but would not come above the top of the keel. We sailed for a couple of weeks and hauled for...

Hi Adam Lorens advice is 100%. I was "there" many, many years ago with a bang in the keel leak and then rainwater down the bilge. Contractor sucked it all out of the keel with a shop vac and reglassed the hull hole(s.) No problems since. No evidence it ever happened. Best Regards Pat 1981...

Kidde Fire Extinguishers Hi CN Kidde sent us a small extinguisher like the one on the left and a white extinguisher like your one on the right. They did ask for me to return the extinguishers that they replaced and we did. "I think" (from what I have seen in hardware stores) that the one in...

Kidde Extinguishers Hi Respected Sailors Received my second Marine Fire Extinguisher ystdy so Kidde has been good to us. Visited local hardware store and they had just received about 40 replacements. The marine units have metal heads. The non marine units appeared to have a new plastic head...