yanmar 3gm30f

California offers coastal visitors only a few island-visiting opportunities. Los Angeles has the lovely Catalina group, Santa Barbara is near the Channel Islands, but from the San Francisco Bay, we have only the Farallon Island archipelago. Located 25 miles off the Golden Gate the Farallones...

While I had my engine out of my sailboat this spring, I earnestly(!) thought of good proactive, preventative maintenance I could carry out while being able to walk around the engine and access the top and all four sides with ease. I’d seen horror examples of clogged heat exchangers on the...

For a Yanmar 3GM30F diesel sailboat engine, a mounting bracket is necessary to provide a fixed point aft of the transmission to which the cable controlling forward and reverse can be mounted. After about 30 years, mine had given up the ghost, with the lower cable clamp mounting hole corroding...