One telling thing is what the vessels documentation says about year built. When a builder submits the vessel for a documentation number assignment...
After looking at the photos of the screw mounts you posted, I thought virtually all of the advice posted was in agreement with both Steve...
I agree completely, while it is often done with tower mounting points, at best you'll need an impact driver to remove stainless bolts after a year...
While it is never a good idea to allow, water intrusion into that core will not be an issue as it would only penetrate disturbed cells where the...
I'm sure that one will work but it will still have the loss of signal strength caused by the hull. It is a relatively simple installation and...
Sometimes the fingers don't type what the brain is thinking. You are correct and I did mean over 100' of depth not less than. Thanks for the catch...
While a shoot through hull ducer will work in your solid glass hull, it needs to start off with a bit more power (watts) than those units you are...
Maybe if one lesson could be learned from this tradegy, that might keep it from happening again, this horrible event would not be for naught? A...
I did, which is why we haven't hooked up the block heaters on the last several engine packages. Take for example the CAt C-32 which comes with two...
Adding a reverse cycle AC unit in the engine room actually has several benefits. In hot climes it makes things way more comfortable when you are...
WOW, I didn't realise you had an axe to grind or I wouldn't have bothered to try and share what I thought was helpful information. Number one,...
All valid points and all worthy of serious consideration. In my experience, and I will be the first to say it is limited to the eastern US...
Alexseal did initially have some issues with "orange peel" that could be reduced if you thinned it enough but you lost coverage and had to apply...
Galvanic isolators, properly installed, will block the majority of DC curent from the ground wire in the shore cable. An isolation transformer...
Having experience with several lightning hits, you can expect what insurance adjustors term "latent damage" to cause units to drop dead for no...
Absolutely! These folks are just out doing their job as they have been trained to do and I have seen numerous times when they were met with...
The notion of military installations being "targets" is for some strange reason being perpetrated and accepted by the general public. Terrorists...
In our area the Awl-Grip reps all moved over to Alexseal as well and their tech support has been better than excellent. As with any new product...
Ading pockets to an already built hull isn't quite as easy as it sounds. The cockpit deck and fuel tanks have to be removed to gain access and to...
The best advice I've heard in a long time came from another industry professional today when we were discussing this suprising court decission. He...
