Recent content by yknotsail

keel leak Thanks for the info. I'm going to retorque the keel bolts, and have already groung and glassed the crack. If there is still a problem, then dropping the keel sounds like the only remaining option. I'd like to squeeze out the winter cruising (6 months) if any remaining leakeage in...

anyone know the keel bolt torque specs for a shoal draft E38, 1985?

water intrusion on '85 E38 shoal draft that help? does the glass fairing at around the keel hull joint have any structural intent or just hydrodynamic??

Help!! We have a 24" horizontal crack in the fiberglass fairing on both sides of the keel; about 18" below the hull. The crack is running aft to forward. We ground and faired it out and launched after 5 month on the hard. We are taking water on seeping through limber holes on both sides of...

I contacted Ronco Plastics to get a replacement holding tank, the B-130, L shaped, and they no longer make it. Does anyone know of a source to replace the original shape, or, is there another Ronco tank model that fits athwartship under the settee next to the bulkhead that isn't L-shaped...

oil capacity 5432 I'm a 7 year cruiser on an '85 E-38 with a 5432. Have changed the oil 30 times.....11 quarts if you drain all the way...10.5 if not. Try putting a plastic shopping bag around the filter and housing as you unscrew it....all the oil drains into the bag and then chuck the filter...

Removed a very used (ugh) holding tank after buying my E38 in '98 and replaced it with a Lectra San Type III MSD. After cruising Bahamas for 6 years, we want to hang out in the Florida Keys next winter and its a no discharge area and LectraSan is illegal. We want to install a holding tank...

Thanks for your help and pictures. We are hauling out this week and will begin the task of removing the tank. I was unsure that the old tank would make it out the companion way or the enclosed nav station on my '85 E38 and now know I'll have to cut it. Best to you.

Our 38 E fuel tank ruptured in the out islands of the Bahamas...we are limping back to St. Marys GA to haul out on a tempo tank in the quarter berth. Anyone have experience taking out the 59 gal tank under the qaurter berth??