The pictures are from us entering the old port which is east of the newer facility. I am disappointed that I did not get the opportunity to...
HAHA! I hear you! Well some what yachting related maybe, but on the dock behind us there was a magazine stand and I took this picture of this...
Coming in to Imperia Italy Oct 2011
I was there in Oct. 2011 tied up on the sea wall where the restaurants and shops run along. They seemed completely set up and running to me. I had...
Killing muscles in the system is not hard to do. You still need to clean them out manually or eat them with an acid (which is not always good to...
Well wait a minute. That is only part of a story. What did any one do next with that anchor in it's web? (Before internet web Ha!) How did you get...
I do have an interest for older maritime artifacts but that excludes you
Wish there where more pictures. Love old maritime artifacts
I have been told that harsher cleaning agents like spray nine, roll off ect. can melt the glue in the seams to cause un raveling on the RIBs...
In one situation where the system became air locked, the heater barrel that would pass the engine coolant through had no coolant to heat and the...
I did some training courses with MTU a while back. There feelings with block heaters was that you should not use them untill (forget the number)...
Easy there, no need to be so harsh and demeaning. How many times have we walked past a perfectly well operating piece of equipment that all of a...
That's what I'm talking about! Captholli just shared some serious knowledge of experiences that you just can't fake.
I appreciate every single vessel I have ever worked on as they all have had something of value to give me that I can hopefully give back to others...
Hi J Just to be clear I only share things seen from past experiences and not to try and imply what happened to Yogi. But to share this, what I...
It looks like your avatar picture is of a 35 series sea water cooled heat exchanger that cools both engine coolant and fuel oil HAHAHA! I am sorry...
Also not to mention that the fwd plate coolers on the modern 35 series that are sea water cooled are used to cool the fuel oil as well the engine...
2010 44 meter Benetti Vision. 35 series CAT with a fuel oil heat exchanger sea water cooled circled in red.
This is what I usually see (not always) on modern 150+ yacht with 3500 series CATS. Follow the raw water discharge off the sea water cooling pump...
I have seen this on other vessels with the rubber exhaust bellows installed. The raw water gets cut off some how and before the engine gets to...
