Paul, You probablyneed to replace the joker valve on the head. It is located past the pump butbefore the hose leading to the holding tank. You should find 3 screws there toaccess the valve. This

We have noticed a strange ingress of water in our forward head bowl, when sailing with the wind in from SB, if there is any water left in the bowl, the bowl slowly fills with water, usually smal

I knew the steerboard origin but not all of the rest. Thanks Mark, I am going to copy and save that. Ocean Hobo is currently anchored off Siel Island in Scotland - in the sun. We’re currently with

Nice job ! On our SM #113 Jetlag, we managed to load up 100 gallons of water on the passage from Curaçao to Grenada due to a blocked drain in the chain locker.... We had a hatch already fitted in the

Very nice work, Congratulations. Fair Winds Eric Kimberlite Amel Super Maramu #376

Aletes locker drain was also blocked. Pushing a fish (wire puller) up the drain pipe from the T in the foreword head bilge broke it loose. Water gushed out along with the mud and sand. Hose pressure

Nice one Mark!! Sorry we missed meeting you guys by not very far. We came through Panama two weeks ago and are now in Ecuador. Best regards Colin & Lauren on SV Island Pearl II, sm#332 -- Colin

(not sure where I found this so as to give credit where due) Ever wonder where the terms port (left) and starboard(right) came from? Ships used to have their rudders affixed to the

We have a Marco pump on Elyse and don't have it connected to the bonding system. As I understand it the bonding system as far as pumps etc go is only applicable to those items in contact with salt

Hi Gang, I solved the problem by always using the chain wash (now fresh water on our boat) and at least once a year… doing a pressure wash in the chain well compartment. Cheers from

Mike- your floor looks great. I know how hard it is to cut and refine that shape. On L'ORIENT my chain locker bilge (under that glassed in perforated grate at the bottom of the chain locker) was

Hi Mike, a while back I posted a photo of a tongue that goes through the inner of the swivel and into the slot in the foil. This locates the center and prevents the scratching you mention. This

Duane, That makes perfect sense. Tomorrow’s job, thanks. One dollar to do the hitting, 49 for knowing where to hit. Greg Shea Sharki 133 Cap des Iles Currently at Preveza

Greg, I'm not sure from your question: are you trying to unscrew them from the outside of the casing? If so you need to remove the nuts on the aft of the windlass aluminum cover, then slide the cover

Scott, I had the same issue (masse light) with my Marco UP3E pump. I would be very interested in what you may have learned.. I also removed the bonding wire from the pump to solve the problem.

Thanks everyone for the informative responses on this topic. We're having a new set of horns fabricated and plan to cover them with some hose material. Anything one can do to reduce halyard wraps,

Nice detail. I’m going to leave the steel stub in the floor. After installing the PVC pipe I’ll glass it in heavily as well. If the steel eventually rots out the PVC and fiberglass should conduct

This is my fillet/header....note the back starboard windlass bolt. 4 inch Pvc works. Despite the appearance, I used silicone to seal the header to pvc joint and supported the PVC from below with my

My thinking was that the other 3 windlass bolts were secured by large fillets to the floor and supported by the floor joint to the vertical divider. I just created a 4th fillet for the back starboard

I need to change out the switch on my Lofrans Tigres windlass. I have the switch but how do you remove the rubber (?) boot that protects the switch. From the parts diagram it looks like it unscrews