Hi Nicole, Sounds like you lost the prop. Same thing happened to me in St Thomas while turning 180 degrees in a tight marina. If you have the bow thruster kit and calm water you can remove the

Hello everybody Today was my first sea trial to ferry SM471 to it's new home , and before exiting the rather large and peaceful port of "Le Frioul", I thought I would be a good idea to pratice a few

Tom, I recently pulled the fuel tank on my 83 maramu. I had an unknown leak at the forward end of it that had rotted a small section of the companionway bulkhead just to the left (starboard) of the

Hello Group This is Thomas Deasy S/Y Aphrodite 1983 Maramu #125 I have a leak in my fuel tank and I will be replacing it !! Any information on taking the old one out and replacing with a new one

Hi Paul, We have been turned onto iSailor by other cruisers who use it. Idownloaded the app and charts. It really works well. One of the very appealingfeatures is you “rent” the charts rather

INavX is quite good. It’s just missing Active Captain inputs, which would make it perfect! ~~~⛵️~~~Matt

Yes I have both and both are useful BUT I don’t seem to be able to get tidal streams [current and direction] live time on I Navx. I have ‘Aye tides” but this only gives depths and not tidal

I love iNavX infinitely better than my chart plotter Courtney Trippin 54#101

Hi, The problem with Navionics is all charts are stored in the internal storage of the tablet. It is not possible to put the charts on extra sd-cards. As I have C-map on Furuno Navnet and Maxsea , the

Hi Paul, John and I attended the Navigation Apps seminar at the Annapolis Boat Show last week. The speaker’s (a former US Coast Guard captain) top recommendation was iNavX. He based this on

Previous boat didn’t have a chart plotter. We used OpenCPN with a waterproof, daylight readable tablet at the helm, connected via WiFi to the hardwired pc at the nav station. The NMEA bus, AIS,

Boating app from Navionics, Navionics chart on both plotters, OpenCPN WITH Google Earth charts and Ovitalmap for the shoal, bommy infested areas. GL Jean-Pierre Germain, SY Eleuthera, SM 007, Fiji

They are also very bad for French aircraft. Don’t feel left out :-) Jean-Pierre Germain, SY Eleuthera, SM 007, Fiji

We also Navionics via subscription service. Ian & Margaret S/V Loca Lola II SM153 US East Coast

Hi Mark, Did you ever get the earlier SM manual? We have #110 and a manual would be very handy. Thanks Mark -- Mark & Nicky Barter S/V Nunky SM 110

Ah, my apologies, I asked for a MDKBN, but I am still amazed at the price difference. As for shipping they did say in an email that they would ship abroad and not include VAT. Cheers, Paul S/Y

I use Navionics – better than my chart plotter. Cheers, Paul S/Y Ya Fohi - Amel 54 #98

There was a vendor on EBay that made beautiful cast stainless exhaust elbows for Yanmars. Much better than the factory version. I have one Kimberlite and it is flawless. Possibly someone can find

Paul, Are you sure the part you have seen at Sea Power Marine is for the MDKD genset? That is a model significantly older and rather different than the one on your boat. They also state on their

Nick, Congratulations! I know the SMs on either side of 476. BTW, I travel the world. I have clients in France, all of Europe, New Zealand, Australia, USA, and many other places. I travelled to New