Aside from needing to replace most things still original, when I took possession of Tween'r the first thing identified as needing attention were the leaky handrails on the dog house. While...
Here is a little interior upgrade that I have been considering for a number of years. On our boat and many others, over the decades, I find that the attachment for the lee cloth is often fussy to...
I've had a lot of boats during my 56 plus years of being on this earth, most of which have been sailboats. Sailing is my favorite. At age twelve we lived on a small 100 lake in north Alabama, Pine...
Wow, barely more than a week and already Arcturus is getting a little antsy about being out of the water so long... gonna be a long winter. Especially when he sees me taking Lil' Böote out to play....
Got the boat parked and leveled and thought I'd better get the slime cleaned off before it set up into some kind of bio-cement. The pressure washer "easily" removes all of the old CPP ablative...
So there I was, getting the boat ready for a Fall cruise down the Big River, when one of my dock neighbors came by. "Say, are you going to leave that boat in the water all winter? 'Cause some of us...
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Good advice as usual. Given that our boat has one breaker on the main panel for both pumps, we might have more risk, but then we have the very reliable
Do not use the same circuit for both pumps. If one shorts out and trips the breaker, you have zero pumps working. Also, use marine shrink fit terminals
given that Rule bilge pumps are not regarded as the best of bilge pumps, it just so happens i have two of them. the first Rule bilge pump has been installed
I replaced all mine on my 30+. I went with 100' of 5/16 (8 mm) Crystalyne from APS 8 years ago. APS does a great job and Crystalyne might be a bit over
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Aside from needing to replace most things still original, when I took possession of Tween'r the first thing identified as needing attention were the leaky handrails on the dog house. While...
SeaDart 12-05-2018 06:44 AM