David, I just did that last year. I have attached the invoice. Take that as an example. That Yanmar shop screwed up and did not tighten the hose clamps on the vent loop, that caused major damage. I

We raised our waterline in 2017, and as others have said, we're a bit bow up, BUT no more scrubbing under the stern! Cheers Alan Elyse SM437

On Sat, Jan 15, 2022 at 08:39 AM, Alan Leslie wrote: We have GP90 connected to Navnet VX2 radar/plotter, Furuno VHF, Camino AIS by each data port on the GP 90, without problems. Our Camino AIS is

Hi Mike, Thanks for the offer re “wrench trace/dimensions attached, which I can get to you in person” - I have an original from Arthur (svVISTA), which I am using as a template. +++ All, Thank

Greetings, Anyone have the cost-breakdown of the major (1,00HR/4yr) service on the YANMAR 4JH3-HTE? I am interested primarily in the hours of labour expended by an experienced marine

Hi Kevin, I have hove-to several times in 45-50+ winds and 12-15 ft seas. I have about 6 ft of Genoa foot out, and 1/3 of the mizzen foot, with the mizzen traveler all the way to windward, and the

Hi all, I experimented heaving to for self training and experimenting more than out of a real necessity. I used the combination headsail rolled up to a small triangle/mizzen and the combination

David, Your cruising grounds sound splendid, enjoy! I wanted to add a bit more about why I decided to go with crosscut Hydranet instead of going with the Tri-radial. First I want to agree with

Greets, Having tried various combinations with headsail out (various %s, and backed), we always seem to fall off and end up too far off the wind, and may be also broadside to the waves, resulting in

Our SM has an inner forestay, we use the staysail and mizzen. If you don't have a staysail, a partially furled headsail to produce similar windage to the mizzen would work. Too big a headsail will

Scott, I had a quick search and couldn't find any extra details for advanced configuration of the Prolific driver. Unfortunately, usb-to-serial adapters are notorious for messing up the hardware

Thanks, I looked at the Windows 10 device manager driver configuration for the Prolific USB-to-Serial Comm Port (port settings) and it does allow me to set flow control. I tried the 3 options:

Scott, You may be able to configure the driver for the RS232-USB adapter to emulate the DTR->DSR and RTS->CTS loop-back functionality?

Correct, it has to do with flow control You have to jumper, on the PC side: pins 4 (DTR) and 6 (DSR) pins 7 (RTS) and 8 (CTS) I did not attempt it because we are in the Tuamotus right now and

Scott, "It turns out you need to jumper 2 pairs of pins in the DB9/serial/rs232 port" I'm assuming that the problem is hardware flow control, which can be bypassed in the wiring with various

Mizzen and staysail if you have one or Mizzen and head sail if you don’t Cheers 🥂

I haven’t had the opportunity to try it yet but thought I’d ask other SM owners what sail combo works best when Heaving To? -- Kevin & Kristen Schmit KIANA SM #362

Hi David, I am interested in the rudder packing nut wrench. Cheers, Keith Tice Bikini SM282 Calvi, France

Hi Alain, Make sure there is nothing else connected to the hub apart from your PC and the AIS. It will fail otherwise. Regards, Arno Luijten SV Luna, A54-121

Are you using Windows? Try turning off all the Windows firewalls. As an aside, I tried to update my GP-150 on my own. I got the software and instructions and had to edit the batch file to refer to