http://www.hmmarine.com/pdfs/ORPINE%20CPD.pdf Orpine is made from pine oil and sodium lauryl sulfate. SLS is the same as ammonia?
I have had very good results using Orpine boat wash on Awlgrip finishes. The awlgrip got an annual cleaning with finesse-it II, and the Orpine did...
I like priming pumps because they make it easier to top off the racors and secondaries.
Maybe consider something like this the next time you have the racors apart for a cleaning and rebuild:...
Is there a priming pump, either manual or electric, in your fuel system? Make sure you re-opened all the fuel valves. Check the racors make sure...
I think it is pretty cool to see, though, that super precise laser position reference systems have made their way to the yachting sector of the...
Agreed. I just don't do the name dropping thing.
So I read an interesting article this morning on another website, and because I am unsure what Carl's policy is on linking to other yachting...
Best practice would be to have as foolproof a system as possible to make absolutely certain that if there is a valve on that balance pipe that it...
If you are going to quote a rule, don't just cherry pick the part you like. (ii) The latter vessel may however take action to avoid collision by...
Never having seen the underbody of yachts like Tatoosh or LGB, I wonder about that comparison. Supply boats generally have flat bottoms, and hull...
If the owner is happy, thats what really matters in the long run. He is going to get a lot of boat for the money with this approach. Not everybody...
A little google action reveals that she was the HOS Trader, Offshore Supply Vessel working oil and gas for Hornbeck Offshore. Got stretched at...
As it was explained to me, a mariner with a USCG ticket would need to take the generalized ECDIS training approved by the NMC to remove the...
It's compliant. I got all my gap closing done by mid-summer last year, no restrictions on my ticket from lack of ARPA, ECDIS, or GMDSS.
I took BRM in 2001 so I am all good there. You haven't been told about taking Leadership and Management? ECDIS?
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Y Agreed ... the engineers got hit pretty hard on this one. I know of an engineer who hasn't gotten a single one of the gap closing classes...
I sail on SOLAS class vessels outside the boundary line with minimum manning as stated on the Certificate of Inspection. A "National Only" MMC...
So, the one of the original topics in this thread concerns what licensed mariners are doing to get themselves in compliance with the new STCW...
