If it's not water-clear in the can; it will add color. Some varnishes are amber colored in the can, like Schooner Gold, and some are very dark,...
I like cradle mounts for rewiring jobs. You can support the wiring harness with loose wire ties as you remove tape and dead ends. As you progress,...
As MYTraveler says, you can get dirty fuel, but that can happen anywhere I've never had it happen in Turtle Bay, but others have in the past. I...
The comments about distances to fuel are pretty close, and the stops for diesel are Ensenada, Turtle Bay, Magdalena Bay and finally Cabo. I've...
Nothing on the immediate horizon,, I do it with a minimum of three competent helmsmen, with my own crew and also with a number of owners with...
I've done it many times, from a 40' Searay San Diego to Acapulco, to several yachts to 82' from San Diego through Panama. I've stopped at just...
You may be able to reset DTC's by simply disconnecting all power to the engine circuits for a short while, and I should have mentioned that it is...
These engine control systems generally work on the CAN bus protocol, the same system that modern automobiles have been required to implement since...
That's the kind of thing a smart manufacturer would supply for free. My wife took her '13 Volvo in for service and the invoice included replacing...
There's plenty in Rhubarb, spinach, chard, etc. Very useful compound. Brightens Teak!
Sounds like classic "Mustache" to me. Gel coat is more porous than paint, so easier to get dirty and harder to clean. The real question may be...
I was falling for it, too :( In my defense, the San Diego Municipal marina has an automated bottom scrubbing slip for the port vessels, so not...
Brilliant! Great application. I use that hitch on my safety line on a climbing harness. It slides easily on a line or halyard when not loaded, but...
I did an engine room detail for a captain friend, one time. The guy is notoriously OCD, so performing to desired quality was a challenge. After...
Re-purposing white, green and black wires for DC use when the current standard is Red and Yellow for DC would be a problem fitting into the...
Did the yard toe-in the rudders? If they are completely parallel, they would rattle from the minor amount of slack in the rudder tie bar. Toe-in...
There was never a reason to suspect vents on that boat. The fills were higher than the vents, and even the inverted "J" hook of the vent hose....
I ran a 68' aluminum Roamer for a few years, and the thing would always list to port at the dock unless the fuel tanks were jugged. I finally...
Pressure caps can fail, or as NYCAP notes; incorrectly supplied. There's also a limit to how much pressure can escape via the overflow tube port...
+1 My first consideration in electronics is charting. Just about all the fixed chartplotters sell chart updates. If you plan on traversing the ICW...
