The flakes are the smoking gun; you have the stuck ice syndrome. To the best of my knowledge, there is no defrost cycle. The icemakers that make...
You might try working the channel molding on the top or bottom out with the glass in place by lifting the free end out and sliding it out from...
The problem with those icemakers is usually the lining on the ice mold cavities. The lining flakes off and the ice is stuck to the mold and the...
West has replacement LED bulbs specifically for Nav lights by Dr. LED. They claim " Satisfies all USCG requirements for brightness, 2nm distance...
CaptPKilbride makes an excellent point about attending the repack and learning what is involved in deploying a liferaft. Until I did that, I...
CSkipR, Could they be Cantalupi light fixtures? They were marketed by many vendors at one time, but market direct in the US, now. You can find...
I was running a 65' sailboat some years back in San Diego. The owner put one of his employees, a Columbian, on board with me and my crew on a trip...
One common problem with the systems is the hose installation. Although the hoses often need to be heated to install and remove, the hose clamps...
The value of doing the fuel polishing really depends on the tank access and configuration. One boat I was recently involved with has bilge fuel...
Having run the West Coast for 24 years, I can tell you that Capt J's list is a good one. It's a list that most professionally crewed vessels of...
Jeffery Siegal of Active Captain wrote a very interesting piece in his newsletter about how dangerous paper charts are, principally because...
Interesting that United Yacht Transport adopted the name once used by the Dockwise arm that transported yachts on the Dockwise semi-submersible...
"Also the article on the sale mentions that they acquired two vessels. I thought there were more vessels." There had been others. I remember...
XM or Sirius weather add ons for some electronics are just about all there is, excluding ham nets, SSB weather sources, and weather fax. One...
In follow up to my "Ask the Attorney" post, I searched all the archives and didn't find the exact question. So, I asked the attorney myself, since...
The Log boating newspaper has a regular feature called "Ask the Attorney". People write in with questions and a maritime attorney answers with a...
Pascal; does it have NMEA out to the autopilot? MBevins; my issue with vector charts is that although they're digitized from raster charts, there...
Navigation is only about one thing: Best Accuracy. If you want to rely on proprietary cartography that is a secondary (Primary?) income stream...
I bought Coastal Explorer for the simple reason that it updates all NOAA charts (that you want) in both raster and vector for free. The NOAA...
Years ago I rebuilt a dash panel with all the original gauges and switches on a 68' Roamer. I found an engraving company that did high-end plaques...
